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The hour ticks by at the slowest speed possible until finally I can’t take it anymore. I want her home alone. It’s our goddamn wedding night, whether we wanted this or not, and there’s no turning back now.
She likes sex. I like sex.
And she’s earned herself a good, long trip over my knee.
“Time to go,” I say in Quinn’s ear.
“Thankfuck,”she whispers back.
Our driver can’t get us there fast enough.
I open the door for her with my right hand, my left arm laden with gifts given to us as we left.
“You are quite the gentleman, you know,” Quinn muses on a yawn. “Your mother trained you right.” She slides back in the plush leather seat and closes her eyes.
I look out the window and don’t respond. It most certainly wasn’t my mother.
We drive in silence for a while until I hear her breathing deeply. Her head lolls to the side, her eyes closed.
Quinn has fallen fast asleep. I wonder if she even slept a wink last night.
She doesn’t wake up during the drive back. Somewhere along the trip, she sniffs and turns and lays her head on my shoulder.
I carry her in. Lay her on the bed, fully clothed. I grab one of my T-shirts and take off her dress. I slide the tee over her head and tuck the blanket around her.
When I finally get her over my lap, she’s getting a lecture about how deeply she sleeps when she drinks. She should at least open her eyes if I’m taking her clothes off, but no.
I brush her hair out of her face. She’s as small as a child, and there’s a softness about her when she sleeps that isn’t there when she’s awake, as if she’s allowed herself this one small amount of vulnerability.
I wonder what drew her to the club. I wonder why she doesn’t put down roots. I wonder…
I strip down to my boxers and join her in bed.
Earlier tonight when we first got here, I’d planned on sleeping downstairs. But now…
What if I need to protect her? What if I need to watch over her?
“So, do I have to like, pretend to be asleep to get you to finally put a move on me?” she asks in the dark.
I roll over closer to her and smack my hand, hard, across her ass.
“Ow!”
“Just checking that you were awake and not talking in your sleep. You did warn me about that.”
“Most people just do things like splash sleeping people with water to see if they’re awake,” she says as she rolls over to look at me.
I brush my thumb under her eye. “I took your clothes off, but you still have makeup on.”
“Oh God, do I look like a raccoon?”
“More like a football player.”
She screams and jumps out of bed but pauses halfway in her sprint to the bathroom. “Oh. You weren’t kidding when you said you took my clothes off. What am Iwearing?”
“My T-shirt.”
“Huh. It’s very soft and smells nice.” I watch her silently walk into the bathroom and shut the door. I lean back and lace my fingers behind my head while I wait.
