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When he gets up from the couch, he holds out his hand for mine. I take it, and he pulls me in for a quick kiss before leading me upstairs to my bathroom.
When we get there, he looks from my oversized bathtub to me and back again. “Would you rather take a bath?”
“You want to take a bath?” I ask in disbelief.
“I get to look at you naked and covered in bubbles? Sign me up.”
I love bubble baths, so I’m not about to turn that down. But I can’t say that I’ve ever had company in the tub before.
This should be fun.
A few minutes later, I have the Spiderman toys removed, the water, filled, and the bubbles added. I step in and get comfortable while waiting for Tanner to join me. As he removes his boxers, I’m once again in awe of his dick.
He raises one leg over the side of the tub and starts to lower it into the water. The moment his toes hit the surface, he yanks his foot back.
“Holy fuck, that’s hot!”
I start laughing hard enough to snort. “Do you want me to add some cold water?”
He takes a deep breath and puffs out his chest. “No. I will get used to it. Just make sure to clean up the mess if my skin melts off.”
It takes a minute, but he manages to finally sit down. I try to stifle my giggles as I watch him sink into the hot water.
“You good?” I ask, barely managing to keep a straight face.
“Yep. How did you get in here all willy-nilly? You just stepped in like it was room temperature.”
“I like it hot.”
“Guess so,” he says with a small chuckle.
Charlie comes wandering into the room, the tags on his collar jingling the entire way.
Tanner cocks his eyebrow at me. “Has this dog been here the whole time?”
“Yes. Tanner, meet Charlie. Charlie has severe anxiety, so he has his own space down in the mud room along with a doggie door to go in and out as he pleases. When he heard someone new here, he probably went into hiding.”
Tanner holds his hand out for the dog to sniff. I expect the dog to shuffle out of the room as quickly as he came in. New people freak him out—especially men. He even wigged out when our Amazon driver tried to give him a dog biscuit.
I’m shocked when the dog sniffs his hand before giving it a couple licks. And then he actually lays down next to the tub.
“Holy cow,” I say. “I think he actually likes you.”
“Is that weird?” He asks, reaching down to pet Charlie’s head.
“This dog doesn’t like anyone besides us. He’s scared of anyone and anything.”
“Maybe Charlie is an excellent judge of character.” He winks at me. “When did he lose his leg?”
“He got hit by a car right out front. My kids found him, and that’s how we came to adopt him. Judging from how skittish he is, I’m guessing he was abused before that happened, though.”
“Poor guy,” he says with more pets to Charlie’s head.
“Do you have any animals?”
“Nah. I’d love to, but I don’t think it would be fair to an animal with as much as I travel. And unfortunately, most of the hotels I stay at aren’t pet-friendly. Sometimes, I go steal my brother’s dog, George, though, and take him to the park for a while.”
“Fair enough. You could get a reptile or something. My oldest has a snake, and honestly, the snake is pretty low maintenance.”
