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“Are you some kind of extreme morning person? You drank as much as I did yesterday and were up at six.”
I shook a little, scattering drops across his chest. “Extreme? I never thought so until I saw you laying around all morning. Oh, stop frowning. I’m glad you caught up a little. Obviously, you’ve been working too hard and need me to drag you off on more vacations. Wanna come in the water?”
He flicked one of the tassels on my suit, his legs squeezing around mine. “For a bit.”
We swam and when he grinned at me warmth blossomed in my chest. He needed someone like me, a little ruthless and self-serving, to pull him away from constantly sacrificing himself. We raced, and kissed in front of a golden statue, and he seemed like a young guy again in the warm light sparkling off the pool’s surface—instead of an exhausted and gloomy martyr.
“Hey,” I said, while I rested against his chest next to the stone temple building in the middle of the pool.
“Hmm,” he said, his lips brushing against the top of my ear.
“Put yourself first too. Your needs are as important as everyone else’s.”
He rested his head against mine. “Three more weeks and Mom will be in a care home for Alzheimer’s.”
We sat for a while quietly, mist from the massive bowl and pedestal fountains drifting over us. I turned around and kissed his cheek. “Time to fatten you up. Let’s go get naked first.”
He squeezed me tighter. “Thank you.”
“For what?”
“Caring about me.”
I sighed. “It wasn’t a choice really. I took one look at you, as a thirteen-year-old teenager, and thought I’d tease you into crawling on top of me in the treehouse. Never worked. You’ve been a challenge ever since. Now I finally have my greedy paws on you.”
He scrubbed a hand over his face. “You don’t talk about your feelings much, do you?”
I raised my eyebrows at him. “Did I upset you?”
His jaw clenched and he stared away from me. “I care about you.”
“Hey, I care. But I am who I am.”
“Incapable of fidelity?” He backed away from me, scraping his hair off his face. “Can you go a week without finding someone to fuck?”
My fists clenched. Why the hell was he sabotaging our one day together? “You’re frustrated that I’m not fitting into your mold of self-sacrificing devotion. Hank, we just started seeing each other. If we lived in the same town, it would be different.”
He put a hand over his eyes then turned his back on me. I waited, tense. “I’m not like you,” he said, turning toward me. “I don’t know if I can do this.”
“Okay.”
His eyebrows pinched together. “That’s it?”
“Yeah. I would like for us to go screw, have some fun, and screw some more. Then we’ll go back to our separate cities, and you can move on. I understand.”
He grabbed me and kissed me hard, a bruising, possessive kiss. Then he clasped my hand and marched out of the pool.
We did basically follow my plan. Back in the hotel he joined me in the shower where he continued with the slightly rough and angry handling of my body. I was still angry too but turned on and bent over willingly, with my legs spread in a V and my hands gripping a handle low on thewall. He chafed my clit with his hand briefly then thrust in, slapping our bodies together until he came.
I was still bothered and worked up. He knelt and finished me with his mouth and fingers. We got out of the shower then and moved to the bed. I put my mouth on him until he was ready again then climbed on top, determined to come with him inside me. He watched me through slitted eyes, his mouth open, his head arching back. I did come, before he flipped us over and found his own release and one more for me.
After cleaning up, we left the room to go to brunch. Hank was quiet. I leaned against him in the elevator, closing my eyes, liking the hint of sandalwood on him. I wanted him to be happy. For him, I could be better.
At the restaurant, Hank’s eyes widened when he saw all the food. “This is awesome,” he said, rubbing his hands together as we waited in line.
“Ah-ha, you’re a foodie. Do you cook as well?”
“You bet I do. Did a barbecue competition two years ago. Second place.”
