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“Well, Mr. Homemaker, if you start decorating do me a favor and rip this shit off the walls. These flowers are gonna make you grow a vagina. If you show up with a desk organizer with highlighters and shit, I’ll know you’ve turned into a woman.”
She looks across the table, her dark brown eyes lit with happiness as every feature on her fair-skinned face comes to life with a smile. Fuck. Damn if I don’t feel that in my dick at the same time my chest seizes. When the muscles ripple up my back, I have to clench my jaw to overcome it.
I want to curse Bev for inviting him to poker, but I don’t. Instead, I thank her in my head, because I secretly like Crew in my old farmhouse.
I whimper on an exhale. Holy shit. He can make a Laffy Taffy joke sound dirty.
He slowly pulls his hand away, once again leaving goosebumps in their wake. His voice comes out low when he utters, “Never carpooled with anyone more beautiful than you, Addison.” I try to be flippant to lighten the heavy mood in the car. “Do you carpool a lot?” A hint of a smile teases me, thinking might get the dimple, but I don’t. “No, I guess I should correct myself and say, I’ve never done anything with anyone more beautiful than you. Ever.”
My mom taught me not to ramble. She explained haphazard words are a sign of unorganized thoughts, coming across sloppy and inattentive to others.
He steps forward, his firm body presses into mine. Inhaling deeply, he breathes into my ear, “I’m sorry I left you. I’ll never do it again. Ever.”
“I want to know what he said to you, what happened on the way home, and why you’re so scared you think you’re leaving. Because I promise you, Addison, you’re not going anywhere.”
“I’m not a Peeping Tom. If I want to see you, I’ll work for it because when I see you for the first time, I plan on being there to touch you. I have no desire to see you over a camera. Starting now, I plan on working for it.”
It’s easy to see she can dish back your shit but still be all woman for you to enjoy, protect, and love on. You put that together with being targeted by old KGB, there’s no hope. You’re a fuckin’ goner.”
“Shit, you are a goner. But for my sake, I hope the woman can cook. Maybe if she cooks for you, she’ll feel sorry for me. If I have to put up with watchin’ you go soft, at least I’ll do it on a full stomach.”
“There’s a world of you I don’t know. I get to figure that out for myself. For now, you’re tired, I’m tired and when I do explore every bit of you, I want us to be rested. I want all of you and I don’t want you to be sleepy when I get it.”
“Never wanted something so much. Can’t stay away from you, can’t even get you out of my head. I’ve never had a shot at anything good, let alone someone like you.”
“Worth every minute of ten years. Never thought I’d say this, but I’d do it all again if I knew you were waiting for me at the end.”
“He’s been trying to invest in the winery for months as a guise, he’s really into Addy. Everyone can see this from a mile away. But since he’s goopy and gloppy—kinda like the gross monster in Candy Land where you get stuck and can never get out—Addy’s been putting him off.”
As I hear her shower turn on, I find myself hoping to God she doesn’t think she just gave me goodbye sex, because that’s exactly what it felt like. There’s no fucking way this is goodbye. Only over my dead body will I let that happen.
Certain moments in life become etched in your soul. For me, I have merely a handful. Buried deep, they’re entwined, tangled, and even disheveled. Living together forever, they create who we are and how we see the world. More so, how we react to it, even live within it. Much like the vines that create my wine, it’s hard to see where one ends and the other begins.
“Never once had a homecoming. Never had a home to come to. I thought I was traveling, seeing the world between jobs, but I wasn’t. I was wandering with nowhere to go.”
“I’m ready to live and I want to do it with you. Knowing death like I do—like we do—I’ve decided I’m living for today. I’ve put my neck out there, I’ve worked hard, and got you as my reward. Anything worth anything is an uphill climb. I’ve climbed it, you’ve climbed it, now it’s time we sit back and live it. You ready for that?”
