“What was that?” I asked him.
“What?”
“What you just did.”
He grinned his shit-eating grin. “It was good morning.”
“Good” didn’t quite cover it.
He sure did “good morning” a lot better than me.
“Next time I get to pin your hands down to the bed and have my wicked way with you,” I said.
I wanted to try the teeth thing on him that was nice.
He didn’t answer but he looked amused.
“No, seriously. It’s only fair,” I said.
“You could try.”
Hmm.
He said, “try”.
Whatever.
I was feeling too mellow to bicker.
“What’s on for your day?” he asked.
“First up, doctor’s appointment,” I started but Vance interrupted, the remnants of his amused look faded and his body got tense.
“Why?”
“Why what?”
“Why are you goin’ to the doctor?”
“Um…”
“Are you okay?”
I felt that whoosh of warmth through my belly at his concern and I couldn’t help but smile at him. “Yeah, we just need to discuss, erm…” Why was this embarrassing? He’d just had his mouth between my legs. I told myself to get over it and forged on. “Contraception.”
His body relaxed and he kissed my forehead. “That’d be good,” he said softly, “then what?”
“Work. I need to get to Fortnum’s, break it to Tex that his nights as a sidekick will be short-lived. Then I’m going to the hobby shop and picking up a How-To-Knit Kit.”
I didn’t know if there was such a thing as a How-To-Knit-Kit but I didn’t have time to wonder for long because Vance’s body started to shake with laughter.
“How to knit?” he asked, voice still amused.
“Yeah, I’ll need to do something in the evenings that doesn’t involve getting me kidnapped and other things that freak me out. I tried baking. That, as you could see, didn’t work. Now I’m going to try knitting.”
Knitting didn’t burn when Daisy came over to give you an impromptu facial and you forgot it so I thought it was a safe bet.
He rolled into me so he was partly on top of me, partly at my side. He was shaking his head and he had that look on his face, the look that said I was too adorable for words. His hand went to the side of my head and his fingers ran through my hair.