“Probably. Women of a certain age seem to need that stuff.”
My hand found hers and stopped what she was doing to me. “How about I go find some? And we try again?”
“Where are you going to find personal lubricant at three in the morning?” she asked, and I couldn’t help but laugh.
“In Vegas? Probably a lot of places.”
“Good point.”
I lifted her chin with my fingers and kissed her gently. “I’ll be right back. Don’t move.”
Then I pushed out of bed, my knee giving me reason to groan. “Fucking knee,” I mumbled, reaching around for my clothes.
Marianne sat up in bed.
Before she could do anything else, I grabbed her legs. “You are not allowed to move.”
“I’m not?”
I shook my head, and restated the fact, “No, you are not allowed to move. You stay in bed, so I know where you are.”
She quirked her head. “Are you having some kind of fit, Wes?”
I nodded. “Yep. It’s the kind of fit where if I come back and find you’re not here—I’ll blow my fuckin’ top.”
“And why would I not be here?”
I gazed right into her eyes. “I don’t know, but I’m not taking the chance. You’re staying right here.”
Her hands ran up my arms, and she smiled. “You’re bossier than I remember.”
After I nodded, I said, “I’ve learned my lesson with you.”
I let go of her legs and finished getting dressed. As I slipped on my shoes, a thought occurred to me.
“Give me your phone,” I said, then pulled mine out of my pocket.
She reached over to her side table and grabbed it.
I snatched it out of her hands.
After I programmed my number into hers, I called my phone.
I leaned down on my hands—caging Marianne in with my arms.
“Do not leave this bed. Do you understand?” I said to her in my sternest of voices. And I meant it, too.
All she did was smile and kiss me back. “So bossy.”
“Damn right,” I said before straightening up. “Stay on that phone with me the whole time. Do not hang up.” I pointed my finger at the phone in her hand.
“What exactly do you think I’m going to do?” she asked with a quizzical tone.
God, she looked delicious right now.
Her hair all out to—there.
Mussed up from our hot make-out session.