A Different Divergent: Everyday Love

6

Chapter 6

"Hello, gorgeous," Tobias says as he walks through my office door. I didn't realize I was staring out my large wall of windows, gazing at nothing in particular, until he interrupts my scattered thoughts. "Are you up for a field trip?"

"A field trip, huh?" I ask, intrigued. I haven't been farther than my office since Tyler got sick so a quick trip someplace might be nice but I hate to be too far away from any of the kids right now. "Where to?"

"No place special, I'm afraid," he says. "Just the training room to check how the initiates are faring so far." We may not have to spend day in and day out with the transfers like the past two years but it's our responsibility as leaders of the faction to check the progress of each new initiation class. I look at my hefty stack of paperwork then back at my handsome husband and give him a sweet smile.

"I should really stay here and get my filing done since I've been away from my office all week," I say and his face falls. "But I can't pass up the opportunity to spend the afternoon with my favorite person." His frown transforms into a brilliant smile that takes my breath away. He leans across my desk and gives me a soft kiss. After I pull away, I lock the files in my bottom desk drawer then follow him out into the hallway. "Do you know what they're working on this afternoon?"

"The transfers are having their first scored hand-to-hand, and the Dauntless-born will be doing short barrel target practice," he says.

"It seems a bit early for scored practice fights, doesn't it?" I ask.

"Brody, Ana, Uriah, and Christina thought it would give them a better idea of each initiate's beginning level if they fought beforethey had a lot of practice since everyone learns at a different pace," he says.

"Hhm. That's actually a very good idea," I say.

"They made that change to the schedule while you were at Abnegation, which we've never talked about, come to think of it," he says.

"We haven't, have we?" I say. "I'm sorry. With everything that happened with Tyler and the girls, I guess it just slipped my mind."

"Well, that's totally unacceptable," he sternly says. I give him my "what the hell" look and he smiles mischievously. "I'm kidding. It's not like you haven't had more important things on your mind."

"You better be kidding if you ever want inside me again," I say.

"There you go, using sex as a weapon," he snickers and shakes his head. "What did Natalie tell you about that?" My face turns beet red when he reminds me of the belated sex talk my mom had with me shortly after Tobias and I first became intimate.

"You're in a good mood."

"I am," he says. "I woke up this morning next to the most beautiful woman in the world." He bumps his shoulder against mine and winks. "Don't tell my wife."

"Only if you don't tell my husband," I say, enjoying our playful banter.

"Then the kids were all feeling better," he says. "Work has been great and the compound has been relatively quiet. It's a gorgeous day out." He stops in the middle of the path and pulls me up against his hard body. His lips land on mine in a fiery kiss. When he pulls his mouth away, his eyes are dilated and his breathing is raspy and shallow. "Now it's even better."

"I can think of something that would make it even better," I say as I shyly look up at him through my lowered lashes.

"What's that?" he asks, his voice gravelly and suddenly full of desire.