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Lucia's laughter is hollow, but there's a thread of amusement there. "Do you make these pronouncements expecting everyone to fall in with your plans, or is it just me?"
Zeus isanax, but my crew looks to me first for orders. As it should be. When I tell them what to do, of course, I expect them to obey. When I told them we were moving to Portland, I assumed they would make the move without resistance.
Theo told me I should have asked them. I told him to fuck off and get his place packed up.
Lucia's face is tilted up toward me. "That look on your face. It's definitely more than me."
"Only the people closest to me." I don't care enough to tell other people how it's going to be. Not even my parents.
"How did we get so close so fast?" she asks, not like she's denying it, but finds the closeness hard to believe. "It's only been a matter of days."
I shrug and start us down the wide cement steps leading into the sunken garden. "Sex."
She smacks me in the stomach with the back of her hand and then yelps. "That hurt."
"I'm sorry?" She hit me. Not the other way around. That willneverfucking happen.
"You should be, having such a hard stomach."
"You like my muscles." She spends enough time touching them.
"You got me there."
We walk in silence until we reach the fountain in the center of the rose garden. Lucia stops and watches the water shoot into the air until the pattern starts repeating. Then she sighs and pulls my other arm around her, holding both of my forearms.
It's not a good position to protect her from, but it's not an impossible one either. She seems to want to be surrounded by me. So, I give that to her. Maybe she's cold. Her coat more fashionable than warm.
I stay alert to our surroundings. My instincts tell me we are alone and not being watched.
"I want to be a mom. I don't know if my body will let me."
"You have to have sex to get pregnant."
"We had sex, but not very often."
"Repeated occurrences increase the chances for most things."
"But…" She stops talking and grips my forearms harder. "You really think I can?"
"I think if you are worried, we go back to the private clinic and have them run some tests."
"I'm not sure I want to know. If something inside me was damaged, it will bring it all back."
"And if nothing is wrong with you except an inept dead husband."
"Tino wasn't inept."
"So, the way you respond to pleasure with surprise so often has nothing to do with his ineptitude. Right."
"It's been five years."
"Which might explain your sexual hunger, not how shocked you are by the things I do to make your body sing."
She turns in my arms and looks up at me, doing her best to frown. "You are so darn arrogant."
"Confidence is not arrogance when it is justified." I have absolute confidence in my ability to kill and make this woman come until she passes out.
Both of which I have proven over and over.
