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“This is shopping, though. You might be right, we might not be ready for something so…domestic.” Her voice was right behind him, so he peeked over his shoulder and grinned at her standing in the bathroom doorway. Her tone dripped with sarcasm, though. And she was eyeing his body like a wolf stalking prey.
Jaxon had decided sometime recently that he liked it.
“She said to the naked man in her bathroom,” he teased, turning back to the sink and running some water to splash on his face.
She was silent for a long moment. Until he turned back to grin at her, blinking the water from his eyes as he fumbled for a towel. “You’re sure you want to?” she asked.
Jaxon made a choice right then to never ever tease about this sort of thing again. “Yes. I want to,” he replied.
The corner of her mouth twitched before she came over and shoved him out of the way. Gently, though. In that way she had of reacting when her feelings got the better of her. Which was a good sign, at least. She believed him.
Teagan ran a comb through her hair. It was still damp, but it was drying rapidly, shining golden auburn in the artificial light of her bathroom. She rummaged on a shelf she had beside the sink and pulled out a tube of lipstick, unrolling it and applying it to her lips. She caught his eye in the mirror, grinning.
“What?” he asked.
“What, what?” she countered, mimicking him from earlier.
“You’re the one grinning at me.”
“You’re the one watching me put on lipstick.”
“Yeah…” he trailed off for a moment. “Don’t want you to go.”
Her eyes warmed when she poked out her bottom lip. “Dammit, Jaxon, you’re adorable.”
“Wasn’t trying to be.” A damnable lie, he was always trying to be adorable around her.
“Still, you are. And it’s just like… seven hours anyway. I’ll see you in seven hours.”
It wasn’t long, and yet… it sort of was?
“This is your last semester, right?” he asked.
She snorted. “So long as I don’t fail any classes, yeah.”
“Okay, well.. You’d better go then. Go pass the classes and graduate so you can stay in bed with me,” he replied.
“I don’t think you understand the point of a degree. You see, I’ll get it, and then I’ll get a job.” She was giggling as she laid out each step like he was dense or something.
“In this economy?” he jibed.
She shot him a look that was a bit softer than her usual Madden death glare, but not much. He smirked and the look melted even more.
“I know you’ll be in high demand once you graduate,” he replied. “I’m under no false assumptions.”
“You still get first dibs on all my free time, though,” she said.
“That’s enough for me,” he assured, and she turned to wrap her arms around him. It felt sort of weird, hugging her when she was fully clothed, and he was still completely naked.
“I have to go, or I’ll never get a parking place…” she whispered.
“I’ll see you at three?” he said.
“At three,” she assured him, leaning over to plant a kiss on his lips. Something more than a peck, but less than the open-mouthed variety she’d been doling out the entire weekend. Nonetheless, he smiled when she left the bathroom.
Then, he got in the shower and didn’t hear her leave.
The shower wasn’t hot enough, but he didn’t care. He’d already taken one the night before, this was just pure decadence beyond the initial rinsing off.
