Slowburn

Chapter 88

         I heard the birds chirping in the distance and realized how late it actually was after our second round of sex. Work finished just before 2am, but we'd come back here and started pawing at each other until we exhausted ourselves. 

"Renzo, the birds" I gasped when I noticed the time. "No wonder why I'm so goddamn tired" he stretched and yawned on cue. "It's your fault. So chatty" I teased him. He practically snorted.

"Good thing I have nowhere to be tomorrow, or, today I guess. Let's go to sleep" Renzo pulled me flush against him and threw his arm around me the way I love. "I'm exhausted, but at the same time my heart's still pumping so quickly" I spoke through the quiet after a moment. 

        Even though morning was almost here I had my bedroom door closed with no windows to brighten the dark of my room. "If I start playing with your hair you'll pass out" I felt his hand brush through my hair until the tips of his fingers were against my scalp. I hummed in appreciation and shut my eyes. 

Slowly, Renzo started massaging my scalp and playing lightly with my hair, and it's the last blissful thing I remember before knocking right out.

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        I woke up to the sound of a phone vibrating on the night stand. My phone. I groaned but stretched for it. The screen was bright, but I could see the name across it. "Dante" I answered in my still half asleep voice. "Kitten...wait are you just waking up?" He took notice. "I had a late night," I mumbled. "I was gonna ask if you want lunch, but maybe I should be offering coffee instead" he chuckled. "Renzo's here."

"He is?! That pansy I knew it" Dante snickered. Renzo began to stir and he realized I was on the phone. "Who is it?" His deep gravelly morning voice sounded so sexy beside me. "Your cousin." Renzo popped his head up, "Dante? What the fuck is he calling you for?" 

I opened my mouth. "Tell him I called him a pansy" Dante was saying from the other end of the line while I was still trying to answer Renzo, "He was gonna bring lunch." Renzo shoved at the pillow trying to get comfortable again. I could feel his hot hard flesh just there beside me. It's distracting. 

       "Tell him to fuck off. He's not who I wanna wake up to" he grumbled. "Aww and who does he wanna wake up to? His lady crush, kitty Kat?" Dante instigated. I snorted a laugh, but Renzo couldn't hear him. "He's gonna kick your butt" I warned my friend. "Is he talking shit? Gimme" Renzo's big hand took the phone right off my ear.

"Listen you little bitch. I'm in bed with my- with a girl. I don't want you involved in any of it. Goodbye" he hung up on his cousin, but I noted the little slip up he made. He said my- as if he was going to say "my girl", but he quickly corrected that. 

         Renzo handed me back my phone and threw his thick arm around me, bringing me deep into the covers with him. My sheets smell like him. I adore the scent. "Sooo, he isn't coming with food then?" I finally spoke up after a stretch of quiet between us. 

"Not unless he wants a knock upside the head" he grumbled. "Does it bother you that him and I are friends? You are kidding when you get all jealous right?" 

Renzo practically popped up like Frankenstein. "Jealous? When the fuck have I been jealous" he spat the word. "Um.." I didn't want to answer that because the answer is "all the time" but Renzo doesn't view that as jealousy. Just possessiveness.

        "Dante is a good friend. It's not like you have to worry that we'd secretly start something between us. There is no attraction there" I pointed out. "Dante is more like the kind of guy you want me to be. You realize that right?" He surprised me by saying. "How?"