His entire face is suddenly bright with mischief. "Well, yes, you can move on from that, but that would be letting him fuck your arse."
Ugh!"Not what I meant, obviously."
Unfazed by my tone, he sings, "You'll like it."
I'm surprised when I shake my head, cause, like, all of a sudden this is the topic of conversation. "It'll hurt."
"Actually, under the right conditions, it shouldn't," he states smugly. "I'm kind of the authority on this topic. No offencewaaaas" –he quickly changes the direction the sentence was heading–"needed and Braidy still handcuffs me and takes me like I'm a convict.
I smile hard. "You just did it again."
"Yeah. Sorry," he says, swaying his arms in the water. "Anyway, I'm surprised you haven't already."
I sink down a little, my legs getting tired of kicking. "He's big, Toni. Likebigand . . . you know, thick."
He beams at me. "So it wasn't really a starter shaft?"
"Oh no," I say, wide eyed, remembering the ache I felt the first few times he entered me. And still, even to this day, sometimes it's just too much. "It's definitely not an apprentice appendage."
His expression deadpans. "Not a rookie rod? Not a trainee tube?"
I cover my giggle, my cheeks burning. "More like an expert level erection."
Toni smacks his lips in contemplation. "What's above an expert?"
I beam so hard my face hurts, remembering the first time Max and I ever spoke. I thought he wastoohot to be human and therefore must be a male witch. . .
A warlock.
"A warlock!" I state with a giggle.
He cracks up, his eyes thin smiling lines. "Definitely a warlock wand then?" Toni pretends to wave a wand, chanting, "Impregnace uterius."
I lose myself in laughter for like two whole minutes. It just takes over my body, my laughter on loop. I can't get the image of Max chantingimpregnace uteriuswhile waving his warlock wand at me out of my head. "Oh my gawd."
Toni keeps egging my laughter on, waving an invisible wand and then stroking it and then waving it again.
"Stop it," I cry, laughing. I take a big breath in and exhale slowly. After which, I try to regain a sense of calm, coaxing myself with,okay, pull yourself together, Cassidy.
Toni, who can be laughing and serious all at once, suddenly squirms in the water. "I'm getting a semi talking about warlock wands. What are we saying now? Eight inches? Nine? Ten?"
With that, I steer the conversation back to where it started. "Thank you for the delightful detour, but can we get back on track and focus on the fact he switched my phone off?"
"Sure." He nods with a feigned sincerity. "Fun police, I get it.Police are fun.Sorry. I'm done. . . You just need to tell him that you would have taken the day off if he asked. Talk to him like you want him to talk-"
"What the fuck are you doing?" Max's deep gravelly voice forces tingles through my whole body. I curl my toes under the water. Splashing around to face the bank, I find him striding down it, working fiercely to pull his tie and white shirt off. With all of those muscles now exposed and rippling, I'm somehow blinded from the other emotions I should be feeling right now. Arousal is holding the others under the water. Out of sight. Out of mind.Oh my God; heisa warlock. . . But I should be feeling something else. . .
What is it?
I blink at him - muscles. . .
Oh yeah!
What'shisfricking problem?
Toni swims towards the jetty and chuckles, "And here is your chance."
"Get out of the fucking water!" Max barks before diving in with his black pants still on.