effervescent | m. hummels & r. lewandowski

[ chapter six ]

Mats ended up sleeping in the guestroom, right beside Clara's room. He had fallen face first on the bed, telling me that he had had a wonderful day.

I wonder what he meant.

What was shocking was that I had walked in on him while changing his clothes in the morning after the shower he had. Even though he was only half naked, my eyes still danced over his skin, all the wrong ideas envading my mind at that moment. What was even more fascinating, Mats didn't turn around -- instead, he let the silence bask in all the moment between us. Then, he grabbed my hand ever so gently and pulled me towards him until my arms were wrapped around his hard torso.

We stayed like that, Mats and I for some minutes, which felt like hours in reality to me.

Truth was, I didn't want to pull away from him -- not now, not tomorrow, not ever.

Slowly, he bent down to meet me at my eye level and press a chaste kiss to my chapped lips. Kissing me again and again like he had done this for ages and not just shared our first kiss yesterday only. His lips worked wonders to my body, trailing down to meet my collarbone and bitting firmly onto it, the gasp that escaped my mouth was sharp and I made sure to muffle it a bit by putting my head in the crook of his neck.

"What have you done to me, liebe?" I felt him whisper into thin air as he broke off our kiss. My hands were dangerously close to untying the towel around his waist, and when I noticed that, I quickly pulled my hands away from the forbidden territory.

"What do you mean?" I inquired, lifting my head up to meet his strong gaze.

Mats tucked a piece of my hair behind my ear, his fingers lingering on my skin longer that necessary.

"I can't stop thinking about you, schatz. I can't seem to think of anything else beside you." I felt him slide his hands down on my hips, resting there in a possessive manner. "And this is is before we kissed," Mats kissed my cheeks, then my nose and then my eyes, "This is from when I first laid my eyes on you, that day at your house, you looked so beautiful, so beautiful that I knew I had to have someone so beautiful by my side, I was smitten with you from day one. Like, there was nothing that could hold me back from you."

My face became heated in a second, it was new to me, all of this show of affection through words and affectionate actions. Robert had never done that, I actually had no idea on how to react to all this when Mats said this all.

I bit my lip but Mats pulled at my chin and freed it from my front row of teeth, he bent down and kissed my throbbing lip, grazing his tongue over it and smiling like a fool.

"With you, I feel like a stupid school boy in love all over again."  He passed a boyish grin and scratched his head. In that moment, I wanted to pull his cheeks at how adorable he looked.

And all mine, my mind whispered to me.

"And with you," I looked up to meet his eyes, "I feel like I'm the only girl in the world." I kissed him one last before pulling away, only to see a frown settle on his handsome face. When I saw he was about to protest, I held up a finger, a smile on my face.

"I don't want you to catch pneumonia and die, I mean, what would Clara and I do then?" I joked and I swear, I saw his cheeks flush red.

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"Mats, can we go to the--" Clara started talking as we were at the table for lunch. Before she could complete her words, Mats was already speaking to her.

"Of course, Lewandowski junior." He drank from the glass of water placed on the table.

Clara looked confused as she looked at me with a big pout on her face, her bright blue eyes wide, "But you didn't even let me finish!" She jumped from her seat and padded over to where Mats sat. Upon looking at her small figure on the ground, he placed her on his lap in one swift motion, kissing her cheeks gently.

"Because," he started, his large hands on my daughter's cheeks. "I will take you anywhere, no matter where you say, I'll take you, okay? Heck, you don't even need to say, Lewandowski junior."

At his answer, Clara was visibly on cloud nine, given the huge grin etched onto her reddened face. "I LOVE YOU, MATS!" She cried out in happiness and wrapped her small arms around his neck, taking him by surprise. Both of them had laughed and of course, started planning ahead.

So when we had had our breakfast, Mats was already putting Clara in the back seat, buckling her up safely in the baby seat. Mats had gone get
home for a few minutes and grabbed a new set of clothes and now, I eyed him lustfully in his loose white tee under a black leather jacket and black skinny jeans hugging his long masculine legs.

"How tall are you again?" I couldn't help but ask him as in locked the door of the house. Mats turned to me and smiled his effervescent smile at me, making my heart melt all over again.

"I'm 6'3", babe."

My cheeks flushed at the name he called me. Robert had never called me that, maybe before our marriage but never after that.

Mats' eyes fell on me, like scanning me under a magnifier glass. I was going to wear an oversized cashmere sweater with blue jeans but Mats insisted that I wore a tight blue tee with a cardigan on top.

And let me tell you, he enjoyed seeing me in the tight tee he had forced me to wear, because his smile was contagious.

I found myself smiling at him too.

"You look so beautiful." Within a minute, he was by my side, sliding his hand around my waist in a possessive manner.

He's yours, all yours.

"Is my lady ready to go?" He bit my earlobe and I let out a gasp.

"Mats! Clara is here!" I pushed him away with a hand and made my way over to his car, only to hear him laugh in the background.

"I have training in the afternoon, so I'm sorry girls, but this trip wouldn't last much longer." Clara pouted in the back, and a frown settled on my face.

"However," Mats kissed my hand quickly, making me gasp, "Let's make the best of what we have then."