Roni

Chapter Thirty One

The warm morning sun is just creeping over the horizon, glowing in Regina's bedroom with different shades of orange, peeking through the blinds. Regina stretches her aching limbs and peers down at the mess of blonde waves all around her pillow, Emma's pillow and across her naked chest. She can't see the pale face hidden away as the blonde set up camp against her bare chest.

Regina carefully lifts her hand, cautious not to wake the sleeping beauty and proceeds to brush back a few strands, so her greedy eyes can steal a glimpse of her beautiful face. She gently runs her fingers through the golden locks continuously, smiling to herself when she observes how those long tresses glow a beautiful warm golden color as the sun shines down on it. Light brown freckles are arranged perfectly on her nose, which has Regina itching to kiss each one of them. She studies the way Emma's eyelashes flutter while she sleeps peacefully in her arms. Those long lashes are so much thicker and darker than Regina ever realized before now that she's up close and personal. Her eyes fall to those delectable pale pink lips that usually hold a slight frown, but not now, not in the mayor's bed. There's actually a faint smile instead and Regina wonders if she was ever this happy with Killian. She remembers when she was cursed as Roni and wondered if she was happy with her husband, but she knew deep down she wasn't. If she was, she wouldn't have strayed.

Regina's eyes land upon a small purple bruise under the side of her lip which Emma caused all on her own. She's actually happy that she can't be blamed for that one.

There's this nagging feeling pulsating just below her flesh and she doesn't understand the need she feels for this woman. She just had her all night and still she feels the urge to wake her up and do it all over again.

Regina scoots a little closer to the gorgeous blonde and lightly places a meaningful kiss to the bruise upon her lip. Emma stirs a little bit, shoving her face deep into Regina's warm chest to hide from the morning light. The brunette can't help, but squirm closer to her girlfriend so she can kiss her lips which she's convinced are now in a pout from being woken up.

Regina slides lower into the bed so their faces are aligned along with those pale pouty lips. Emma half moans and half groans in response, and Regina knows she wants to be mad, but she also knows Emma can't ever stay mad at her for too long.

"We have to get up. We aren't on the bar's schedule anymore," the former bar owner informs the blonde in a playful manner, whispering her hot breath into her ear.

"Where do you have to go? You know you're not the mayor anymore, right?" She fires right back with her eyes still very much closed.

"Your mother better watch her back, I'm coming for her," the former mayor insinuates, smacking her naked butt, but Emma doesn't even flinch.

"Tell me how that goes," she mumbles disoriented into her pillow.

"Come on Swan, get up! We have a lot to do today."

"Like what? You're like eighty, don't you think it's time to retire?"

Regina scowls at this admission and hastily rips the comforter away before delivering a harsh smack to her firm ass again. Emma jumps up this time as she yelps out, slowly craning her neck to glare at the woman with daggers.

"Did I seem like I was eighty when I was making you scream out my name over and over again last night?"

Emma twists her lips as she tries to appear angry, but she fails miserably and starts laughing. Her strong hands rapidly reach out to grip Regina's biceps before tossing her into the mattress and straddling her torso in one swift motion. She leans down and plants one aggressive kiss to Regina's full lips.

"Can't we cuddle all day instead? I feel like I don't have to go to the station today."

"No, as much as I would enjoy that, we cannot. I want to see Neal since he wasn't home last night. I'm dying to see my niece and we should probably check on Henry and his family. We also need to find you a place to stay. Not to mention, you need to figure out what you and Killian are going to do with Ella. I need to start helping Ella with her magic-"