with my own orgasm spilling myself inside her.
“Fuck,” Maria groaned.
“Did you like that?” I asked her.
“Yeah, but you didn’t use protection. What if I get pregnant?” Maria said sincerely, but she couldn’t hold it long and soon we were both laughing. I slipped out of her and she gasped and pushed off the table as she scurried to the restroom. “You shit, Mattie! You know I hate it when this happens!”
I chuckled as I tucked myself back into my pants.
“I’m not a shit, babe. I’m the one that brought you ice cream!”
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JOHN
“Oh, damn, babe. This is the menu?” When I walked in carrying a heavy box from the printers, Maria had damn near attacked me. Once I reassured her that I didn’t shoot the guy, I just talked to him, she kissed me on the lips and told me I was her favorite brunette in the entire world.
It made me feel good even though I heard her tell Mattie that he was her favorite blonde all the time.
I scanned over the items again occasionally laughing at a particularly funny dish name. “This is fucking awesome!”
“I had some help from Martha and Jenna. Willow and Brenda put in a few ideas and, of course, I used the ones that the three of us came up with.” Maria flipped her hair back over her shoulder and sat down beside me at the table in her new restaurant, Grazie’. “Look down in the burgers section; that one you wanted is there for Terra.”
I found it and chuckled, “She’s going to get a kick out of that.”
“I’m glad you decided to hire those girls from Kari’s place to help wait tables,” I told Maria. “We’ll have them plenty protected in here, but I’m sure Kari knows that.”
“Of course. And there will always be one or two people from one of the clubs here, I’m sure.”
“Always. I feel better knowing that Luke will be just down the street from you,” I grunted and rolled my eyes, “What I do not feel good about is the fact that half the fucking members of his gym are cops.”
“I think it will be good to foster a friendship with the police force here in Rojo,” Maria said slyly. “I’m thinking of giving them 20% off their entire ticket every time they come in. Might drum up… ”
I jerked her up to sit in my lap and glared into her eyes. She held it together for a few more seconds and then burst into laughter. It was the most beautiful sound I had ever heard.
“Mattie told me you wanted a foot rub and some ice cream tonight,” I said with a grin.
“Yeah, he got me ice cream. He also said that you would play with my hair while he rubbed my feet while I was eating that ice cream.”
“I bet he didn’t know you were planning on flooding the place with red and blue lights when he made those promises.”
“I’m not giving them 20% off. I’d go out of business. I am going to give them free coffee any time they come in and a discount on their smoothies if they’re members of the gym,” Maria told me. “And that, my love, is not negotiable.”
“I can live with that,” I told her. “They’re not all that bad anyway, I just feel like I should dislike them on general principals.”
“Quit breaking the law and I bet that feeling goes away,” Maria laughed. “But that would be too easy, wouldn’t it?”
“Woman, that mouth of yours is going to get you in trouble,” I growled at Maria.
“I bet this mouth of mine can get me out of it, too,” Maria said as she started to kiss her way down my neck. “Now take me back to the office and let’s see how I do.”
“Oh, hell yeah,” I agreed, following behind her toward the back of the restaurant and through the kitchen.
“We’ve got to be quick; Lout and Willow will be here in about 20 minutes.”
“You put your mouth on me and I am guaranteed not to last anywhere near that long.”
Maria smiled wickedly as she pushed me back into her desk chair and slowly got down on her knees in front of me. This woman had Mattie and I right where she wanted us and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
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MARIA
“We open tomorrow,” I said quietly as I turned and looked at Willow. Her husband Lout was standing just a few feet away, their youngest daughter, Di, propped on his hip.