Friends, lovers... and an orange

Chapter 20

"Good morning, Mase" Adele said while walking into the kitchen of the small flat they had rented for the rest of Paris Fashion Week.

"Good morning, gorgeous" he smiled.

"Are you making me breakfast?" she asked, wrapping her arms around his naked torso and leaving a kiss on his shoulder.

"I am."

"Urgh, you are the best."

"I know" he smirked.

"I could get used to this, you know?" Adele said, kissing the back on his neck while one of her fingers traced the shape of his abs. "To you making me breakfast while shirtless every morning."

"It could actually happen, you know?"

"What do you mean?" she asked after kissing his other shoulder.

"This. Us together every morning" Mason said, turning around on her arms to face her and hugging her back.

"With the crazy schedule you have?" she chuckled. "I don't think so."

"What if I took a sabbatical year?"

"What?"

"I've been thinking about it for a while, and I think I deserve it, Addie. I've been working my ass off literally and figuratively for the past few years, and after the one we've had, I think I deserve some time to relax and just have a normal life. Or as normal as someone like me can" he chuckled. "I deserve to enjoy some time with my family without having to worry about the next plane I have to catch, and I definitely deserve some time with you" he said, caressing her cheek. "Now that we are finally together, I want to make up for all the time we've lost, Addie. Like, maybe we could go back to Italy and live there for a year, have what we had during the summer. Or maybe we could travel the world, living in a different country every few months. Or we could... I don't know, buy ourselves one of those camper vans and travel from Scotland all the way to Cornwall."

"I don't have a driver's licence, Mase" she laughed.

"I'll do all the driving, I don't care. All that matters is that we are together, Addie" he said, cupping her face. "I want to go to bed and wake up next to you every day for the rest of my life. Here, in Italy or the moon. Because I love you, Addie. I love you so much" he said before kissing her, not allowing her to give him a reply, to tell him that she also loved him.

At first their kiss was slow, a gentle one. But it quickly turned into a more passionate one, Mason's hands moving from her face to her butt, lifting her in the air and making her wrap her legs around his body.

"Mason!" Adele giggled as he sat her on the table.

"Yes?" he said as he started to kiss her neck, his hands moving up her thighs. She was wearing one of his t-shirts, only her knickers underneath it.

"What about breakfast? Those toasts are gonna get cold and all soggy."

"I'll make you more, don't worry" he said as his hands reached her waist, his thumbs making small circles on her skin, the feeling sending goosebumps all over her body.

"But I'm hungry now."

"So am I" he smirked.

"Oh, you rascal" Adele laughed.

"As if you didn't like it" he said before getting rid of her t-shirt, now both of them being topless. "I love you, Adele."

"I love you too, Mason" she said before kissing him and completely forgetting about their breakfast.

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"Finally, guys!" Rianne said. "Where were you?"

"Stuck in traffic" Mason sighed.