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The others laughed as Alex winked and dragged Mia out of the house.
“Drive fast,” he said as they scrambled into her car, those damned dark clouds Del had mentioned looming in the distance. They were going to have to make this quick.
“On it.”
And she was. Four steps inside her house, her lips were on his, their kisses crazed and needy. They left a string of discarded clothes from the living room all down the hall. A few steps more and they were in her bed, Mia’s nails clawing a trail down his back. And what she needed, he was more than happy to provide. Their climaxes came one after another, their predinner festivities over nearly as quickly as they’d started. Alex dropped onto the pillow beside her, grinning and spent.
“I need to accost you in strangers’ bathrooms more often.”
Mia laughed. “How about we just bake cookies more often?”
“Deal.” He laid beside her, letting his pulse slow to nearly normal before leaning over to give her cheek a peck. Any more than that, and he’d be hungry for more. “Come on. If we hurry, we might be able to get in a quick bite at the Sweet Mash before the storm arrives.”
“You really think you’ll be able to outrun it?” She followed him down the hall, each scooping up articles of clothing and putting them back on along the way.
“Oh yeah. You guys are on the edge of lake effect snow from Lake Michigan, right? It won’t extend down to Indy.” He tugged on his socks and shoes. “Down there, we’ll be lucky to get a light dusting. Usually, it just turns to rain.”
Or ice, which he refrained from admitting aloud. Ice storms were the worst. But in all the doom and gloom forecasts he’d peeked at today, thankfully no one had said anything about ice.
“Okay,” she said as they pulled their coats on. “But we’re going to ask for a seat by the window. And if it starts to snow, I’m sending you on your way.”
Alex pulled her into a hug. “You’re kinda cute when you’re bossy. I like it.”
“I’m not bossy.” Her mock scowl faltered. “Much.”
“Come on, Miss Bossy Pants,” he teased. Alex tugged the back door open and stopped. For a moment, he thought her vehicle had been stolen, because it was nowhere in sight. A few hard blinks later, and he realized the Equinox was exactly where they’d left it—it was just now covered in snow. “What on earth?”
“But…but it wasn’t even snowing when we got here!” Mia cried. “How long were we inside, maybe ten minutes? Fifteen at the most?”
“Wow, I guess the forecast about this storm was really accurate for once. But then, even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut.”
He blew out a sigh, mentally rearranging his evening. Work and edits could be done on his laptop, and year-end calls to the last few of his customers weren’t needed until Monday. It seemed like there was something else he needed to do this weekend, but he was drawing a blank. He didn’t sweat it—he’d remember eventually.
Mia tugged him back inside. “Oh, Alex, I’m so sorry. I shouldn’t have kept you at Barb’s so long.”
“Are you kidding? I wouldn’t have traded cookie time with you and your friends for the world.” At her incredulous look, he amended with a wink, “Okay, so I wouldn’t have traded what happenedafterfor the world.”
“Maybe we won’t get as much as they predicted and they’ll have the roads between here and Indy cleared by morning.”
“Hopefully so. In the meantime, that early snow means we have plenty of time now.”
Mia paused, one sleeve out of her coat. “For dinner?”
“No,” he said, helping remove her coat with a wink. “To crawl back into bed and rest up for round two.”
Chapter Thirteen
Mia woke toeight inches of snow on the ground the next morning, with a predicted three more on the way. Though not the craziest accumulation they’d ever had, a cold front coming down from Canada had brought with it high winds, making conditions blizzard-like and roads treacherous. Alex wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and neither was she.
Which was perfectly fine with her.
“I know we can’t stay like this forever,” she said. “But I have to admit—I’m loving today’s change of pace.”
They were sitting on her couch after breakfast, snuggled together with preferred mugs of caffeine in hand, watching the snow globe effect going on outside her picture window. Between the crackling fire in the fireplace and the glimmering lights of her beautiful, fresh Christmas tree, Mia was in holiday heaven. Having Alex here to share the perfectly lazy Sunday with her made it that much more special.
“Agreed. I don’t do much sitting still, but right now, there’s literally no place I’d rather be.”
“Really? Not even lounging on a sandy beach in the Caribbean somewhere? You just told us last weekend about some amazing vacations your family went on when you were a kid.”
