You are my life

Wow

(Piper's POV)

All that could be heard was the water gushing out of the shower head.
All that could be seen was the thick steam that filled the bathroom and the beads of water running down the shower glass.
I was in my happy place.
Because all that I could feel was the hot running water on my skin, the cosy feeling of the steam and Alex's strong, protective and loving arms wrapped around me from behind in a secure embrace.
We were in our afterglow.
My body was humming with contentment as was Alex's.

Keeping me in her embrace, Alex peppers kisses all along my shoulder to my jaw and back again with her eyes closed, her wandering hands didn't go unnoticed either.
There wasn't an inch of me she didn't caress in some way, her hands on me leaving burning trails in their wake.
When she gets back up to my jaw for the fourth time, she makes her way up to my earlobe and nibbles on it, purring,
"Okay. I was wrong. You win."
I open my eyes and look at her with a content side eye, not moving and not wanting to move from the embrace she had me in.
"You have been wrong many times my darling but man I have waited a long time to hear you say it."
She pulls her arms tighter around me like a constrictor would its prey, raising an indignant eyebrow at me.
I laugh.
"Okay, okay, I'll play along. How have I won?" I ask which she rewards by going back to covering every inch of my upper body with her lips.
"This is so intimate, so sensual Pipes. It's been years since we've properly done this. I mean I'd forgotten how good this is. To have the woman I love in my arms in our afterglow after making love, after showing you how much I love you, how much you mean to me. It truly is the best way to connect with you, to relax with you, to let you trust me again." She says softly and passionately but tapering off at the last sentence.

I didn't want to think about what she'd done.
Yes, it really hurt and cut into me and she could compare it with Stella all she likes, Stella never got as far as... no, I mentally shake my head. I'm not going down that rabbit hole again.
It was in the past.
This was our present.
Happy.
Together.
Glowing.
I look down at her left hand, resting on my torso, her engagement ring sparkling brighter in the water and bring my left hand on top of hers, intertwining our fingers.
With her head resting on my shoulder, she follows my gaze down to our rings and smiles.
"And I can't tell you how long I've waited to see my Mom's ring sitting right there on your finger where it belongs." She says, turning her head to peck my ear.
"I can't wait to marry you again Mrs Vause-Chapman. Properly."
Another peck but this time on my cheek.
I smile and turn around in her arms, linking mine around her neck, kissing her deeply, taking her by surprise going by the little noise she makes at the back of her throat when suddenly my lips are on hers.
I gave her a good kiss, roaming my tongue around her mouth and almost down her throat, only breaking it when I was sure she was breathless.
"Mhm." She squeaks.
I laugh,
"What was that noise?"
She uses her arms around me to forcefully pull me against her,
"Shut up and kiss me." She purrs in command, slowly closing the gap again expectantly with her eyes closed and I can only obey.
As she kisses me, her hands begin their wandering trail again, finding their way into my already lathered scalp as the water continues to gush out at us. She massages my scalp and washes the remaining shampoo away for me so I do the same for her.
When that's done and our hair is shampoo free, she quickly grabs the body lotion to use it as an excuse to continue feeling me up while going back to sucking on my neck like a vampire.
I pull away briefly to playfully stare at her.
"What? I'm just trying to get you clean Pipes." She defends.
"Sure." I retort and continue,
"And I told you so! Shower sex doesn't have to be a quick fuck Alex. It's also a great way to spend time with your partner, some even class it is a date, you know like a romantic getaway from the world in our own little bubble. Literally. You seemed to enjoy it when I agreed to go to Bali with you back in 2003.-"
I wasn't finished but she cut me off, abruptly stopping kissing me when realisation hit her.
"Is that why you liked this so much back then? Why showers and baths were your happy place? Because it was a chance for us to spend time together? Some romantic time together?" She asks.
I shrug in acknowledgement.
"Well, yeah. That, and I do genuinely love baths and showers. Al, you've just said it yourself, it's so intimate, so romantic. I took what I could get back then because you were always off God knows where doing God knows what. All I wanted, all I want, is you Alex. And now that I've proven to you just how romantic, intimate and relaxing showers can be, come back here." I say, pulling her back to me.
She smiles and obliges.
"You know showering together is also a sign of a strong and comfortable relationship." She states.
This time I pull away out of surprise which she clearly saw coming because she fills me in.
"I may have read some articles and researched why you like showering with me so much and thought I'd try it out again. It sounded nice. It is nice. It's romantic." She purrs into my ear, smiling.
I smirk.
"It's also a good foreplay. I mean, we're already naked and wet. We can touch each other everywhere and have I mentioned how much I love it when your body is pressed to mine in an enclosed space and how your ass is so delightfully squishable?" I purr in a low voice in her ear, sliding my hands down and grabbing her ass with both of them.
Her eyes close and she exhales softly.
When they open again, they're black, or at least very dark green.
"Piper Vause-Chapman, you sexy little minx." She half purrs half growls, pushing me gently against the wall, kissing me deeply and going for another round.