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Zoey looks up at me, a smile on her face as she slowly drops her gaze from my eyes to my bare chest to the towel wrapped low around my hips. Wrapping her own towel around herself, she walks over to where I lean against the bathroom counter, watching her.
“Of course I don’t mind,” she replies, her hands on my chest. “I really like your friends and you should spend time with them when they’re here. I know you don’t get to see them very often.”
Exhaling, I slip my arms around her waist and pull her closer. “I know and they really like you too. But this was supposed to be our weekend,” I say, knowing that with Alex and Delaney leaving for Boston today, this is a rare whole weekend that Zoey and I have together. A whole weekend where she doesn’t have to sneak out each night or make up some story about where she is all the time.
Even though we’ve been spending as many nights as we can together these past few weeks, it still doesn’t feel like enough. We rarely get to have dinner together because unless Zoey can come up with an excuse, she usually doesn’t come over until late, sneaking out when Alex and Delaney have gone to bed. At least she texts me now and I can drive down and meet her so she’s not walking around Tahoe by herself in the middle of the night. That I was not comfortable with.
And even though I’ll take every single second that I can with her, I still want more. I want to cook meals for her, lie around on the couch talking with her, finish and start my days with her. I want everything.
“It still is our weekend,” she says, leaning in to kiss me. “And you should’ve let them stay here too.”
“No way,” I say, tightening my arms around her. “We definitely need the house to ourselves this weekend.”
She laughs, sliding her hands up my chest as she wraps her arms around me. “We do?” she asks, sighing as I lean in and kiss her neck.
“We do,” I breathe against her skin. “And for the record, I know these past few weeks have been busy with all the expansion plans, but after the press release tomorrow and we finish up with work, we aren’t leaving this house, hell we aren’t leaving my bed. All weekend.”
Zoey laughs. “Is that so?”
I kiss her warm skin. “Very much so..”
“And what exactly will we be doing in your bed all weekend?” she asks.
Chuckling, I lift my head, my gaze meeting hers. “Oh, I have some plans,” I tease.
“Plans?”
“Plans,” I repeat with a nod. “That involve me worshiping this gorgeous body of yours until you’re screaming my name. Repeatedly.”
She smiles, pushing up on her toes to brush her lips against mine. “I very much like the sound of these plans.”
“Mmm, maybe we should get started now,” I murmur.
“I don’t think we have time for that,” she says with a laugh. “Didn’t you say they were coming over at seven?” She glances at my watch on the counter beside me. “That’s like ten minutes from now.”
I bury my face against her neck with a groan. “I definitely need a lot more than ten minutes when it comes to you,” I say, before reaching over to the drawer beneath the bathroom counter. “I have something for you.”
Zoey pulls back, her arms still resting on my shoulders as she gives me a questioning look. “You do?”
“Yes,” I say, holding up the square box between us.
Zoey glances down at it before looking back at me. “What is it?”
Chuckling, I offer it to her. “Open it and find out.”
She takes the box from my hand, and I move mine to her hips, holding her close as I watch her open in, a small gasp falling from her mouth when she sees what’s inside. “Ethan, oh my god, what…what is this for?”
“It’s for you,” I say, taking the platinum chain threaded with a single large diamond from the box. Undoing the clasp, I lean forward and place it around her neck, re-clasping it as I drop a kiss on her shoulder.
Her fingers toy with the diamond, her eyes searching mine as she whispers, “It’s beautiful, Ethan, thank you.”
Smiling, I lean in and kiss her, whispering, “You’re welcome.”
“Why?” she breathes out.
I tuck strands of her long, blonde hair behind her ear, wondering how I can possibly answer that question after only weeks and not freak her out too much if I admit what I’m really thinking or what I’m really feeling.
Like how I think about her all the time, how I want her all the time and how I love spending time with her, love having her here with me.
