Mr. and Mrs. Black

Chapter Fifteen

|Abigail|

    My body pressed closer against his firm front and I felt one of his hands tangle in my hair that fell down my back. His other hand lay on my hip holding me in place while he glided his lips down my neck leaving open mouth kisses against the sensitive skin as he went. My lips parted when I suddenly felt it grow hard to breath and focus when his lips were dancing across my skin.

    I tilted my head to the side granting him better access when his lips found the juncture where my neck met my shoulder. My hands went to rest on his muscular thighs gripping onto them for dear life when he began sucking on a spot on my neck sending all kinds of shocks through my body. Oh my god.

     This shouldn't be happening. This couldn't happen, not with Ranger. I couldn't let him do this to me; I couldn't let him make me weak minded. This was business and I couldn't act like this. I couldn't let him make me feel this way.

    I removed my hands from his thighs like I had been burned and backed away causing his hands to drop from my body. Ranger looked so damn delicious with his damp lips parted like that. The bruises and cuts made him look like such a hot badass, not to mention the clear view I got of his defined muscles because he wasn't wearing a shirt. Shit. I needed to get out of here...NOW.

    "I--I-- I'm gonna go take a shower," I stammered and felt like an idiot when Ranger looked at me as if I had just grown another head. I walked quickly out of the kitchen and upstairs to take a shower. A really long, really COLD shower.
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|Abigail| 

    Knocking on the bathroom door caused my head to jerk up from where I sat underneath the running shower.

    "Hey Abigail, you okay in there?" Ranger asked carefully from the other side of the door. No. No I wasn't alright. After that little kitchen 'incident' I went to take a shower to cool off then discovered that bitch Mother Nature just showed up. Now, here I was sitting in the shower without any feminine supplies.

    "Yes." I finally answered.
    "You sure? You've been in there for almost an hour now." Ranger questioned. F.uck. This was embarrassing.

    "Actually," I started,"I uh--I need you to go get me something."

    "Okay, what do you need?" Ranger asked.

     "Feminine stuff." I answered and cringed waiting for his reply.

    "Like nail polish and hair ties?" He tried to clarify and I slapped my palm onto my forehead.

    "No, uh--" Why was this so damn hard to say? "Aunt Flow came to visit." I tried to explain and felt a blush creep up my neck and cheeks.

    "Where is she and why is she here?" Ranger asked sounding confused. Oh for f.ucks sake. Was he really that clueless?

    "My period, Ranger." I sighed. "I got my f.ucking period and I need you to get me some lady toiletries." A long silence dragged on between us.

    "Ohhh...oh shit." Understanding registered in his voice. Finally. "I guess I'll go then, I'll be back in a few."

    "Okay," I said and wrapped my arms around my knees hearing him move down the hall.

    Forever passes before I hear a hesitant knock on the bathroom door.

    "It's unlocked!" I called out.

    "Are--are you sure you want me to come in? Are you naked?" Big bad Ranger just stumbled over his words like a shy middle school boy.

    "I'm in the shower, but you can just open the door a little and slide them in." I answered.

    "Okay." He replied and I heard the door open and the sound of a bag being moved across the floor. "I didn't know what to get so I just grabbed a few things."

    "Thanks." I replied and felt embarrassment once again flush my cheeks. I opened the shower door when I heard the door close and saw two white grocery bags placed on the tile floor. My wet, bare feet padded against the tile as I walked over to the bags and lifted them up to set them on the counter and sift through them.

    He had bought four different kinds of feminine pads and two different boxes of tampons. What surprised me the most were the various bars of chocolate and the tray of baked pink, frosted cupcakes he had also bought. I shook my head and couldn't contain the small smile that had formed on my lips. Maybe he wasn't so much of a clueless asshole after all.
   
    Now wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a tanktop, I wandered downstairs finding Ranger sitting on one of the couches with his laptop resting on his knees.

    "Thank you." I slowly began feeling awkward all of a sudden as I sat down beside him. "For--um--getting that stuff." My heart rate quickened when he turned from his laptop and locked his dark eyes with my own.

    "It was nothing," He shrugged off. Although he said it was nothing and may have thought it was nothing, I thought what he did was considerate. What he did made a small shift in how I saw this agent, for the better.

    "I didn't mean 'thank you' just for getting those things for me." I continued and looked down and began picking at the end of my boxer shorts. "Thank you for getting Eduardo away from me, for doing what you did when you didn't have to."

    "You don't have to thank me for that, Abigail." He stated. "It was just--natural instinct to pull him off of you."

    "Why did you? I mean, why did you pull him off of me?" I heard myself asking and lifted my eyes to meet Ranger's who had been watching me.

    "Why did you kiss me back there like that?" Ranger asked reffering to when I basically assaulted him back at Eduardo's place.

    "If I didn't something bad would have happened to you." I thought about it for a moment. Ranger would have died or ended up with a few missing appendages if I hadn't of proved that he was my 'husband'.

    "There, you have your answer." Ranger replied and turned back to scrolling through his laptop. He seemed too blunt, he seemed....like he was hiding something or holding something back. Maybe he felt just as awkward as I did about the kitchen incident. Perhaps, we could both forget about it and move on?    

Forgetting about what happened sounded easy, too easy. The thing about the word 'easy' was that it went right around me, it completely avoided me. Nothing in my life ever has been, nor ever will be, easy.

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