Vibrations

Chapter 24

I watched Roo that afternoon play on Ben's farm. Watched her ride the llamas. Watched her feed them. Watched her ride Ben's big, noisy tractor while he dragged some fencing out and mended a couple of spots in his fence where the cattle had started to make holes. I watched her as she took a little nap, pillowed on a few bales of hay as Ben and I worked.

She woke with little strands of it in her hair, and a smile on her face that burned like a thousand suns on her funny little face.

She ran around and played. She asked questions and tried to figure out what Ben and I were doing all day long...

As the day wound down she said goodbye to the llamas, and to Ben, and she and I headed home for dinner.

We got no more than five seconds into the house and she was instantly attached to her momma's hip, telling her all about her day, and how beautiful the llamas were, and how she wanted one of her very own, so she could keep it in the yard. I sat at the kitchen table and watched my two ladies...

I could see how tired Casey was from work. She was cooking, spaghetti from the look and smell of things...

Casey nodded and talked with our little girl, but I could see she was starting to wear thin...

Standing, I came up and pulled Roo against me, putting one of my big hands on each side of her head, "Roo, Button?"

She looked up and me and smiled.

I bounced my eyebrows, "Momma looks very tired. You think you could go and play with your tablet for a while, give her a chance to recoup from work? Just until dinner is ready?"

She got a serious look on her face and nodded her little head, "Yes, Jakey."

Casey looked over at her sharply, "Daddy, Roo! Not Jakey, Daddy!"

Roo looked like she had been slapped. "Sorry mommy."

I pulled Roo's head up to look at me, "Don't worry about it Button, mommy's just tired. Can you go play with your tablet?"

She nodded eagerly and bounced out of the room.

I came up and wrapped my arms around Casey from behind. She was tense, her entire body locked up. I could tell how mad she was. Could sense how much it had pissed her off for me to step between her and Roo...

"Why don't you let me take over here?" I murmured into her ear. "You go take a nice shower, put on something soft and comfy and try to relax a bit?"

She shook her head, and even from in back of her, I could see her grit her teeth. And then, like someone had taken a needle to the balloon of her anger she pushed it down. "I'm okay. I can make dinner for us..."

I took my left hand from her waist and pushed the hair away from the right side of her neck. My lips found the sensitive spot just beneath her ear lobe. "I know you can... I just want to help..." I whispered into her ear, kissing her again.

I lifted my hands to her shoulders, rubbing them roughly as I tried to work the tension from her muscles. They started out hard as rocks beneath my fingers, but just a few minutes of massage and they started to slowly relax. Finally, realizing I wasn't likely to get her to relax much more with my hands, I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her close, going back to kissing her neck, and nuzzling her jaw with my nose.

Her body melted beneath my kisses. The tension drifting out of her as my fingers and lips pulled the stress away...

She shook her head, "How are you so fucking perfect?" she whispered as I nibbled on her ear...