do-over

xxv ; his meeting

"Wh-? Where are you going? Looking like that?" I blinked, trying to get the sleep out of my eyes.

Much to my confusion, Adrian laughed. "I'm going to a meeting." He kissed the top of my head while I yawned.

"But.." I spoke in the middle of a yawn. "You look so sexy..." I started falling back into the bed, sleep trying to posses me once more.

"You go back to sleep and we can talk about how sexy my outfit is later," he was smiling but my eyes were closing and I nodded slowly.

"Yeps.." I snuggled back into the bed. "You come back and I can help take," another yawn, "it... off.." Then I passed out again.

*****

"Welcome back," I looked up from my breakfast and grabbed his hand as he walked up, only pulling him down for a kiss. I admired his outfit as he stood back up.

"Do you remember what you told me this morning?" He asked while sitting across from me and propping his feet up on my knees.

"No? Did I say something embarrassing?" I took another mouthful of yogurt.

"Honestly not sure if I want to say anything," he laughed practically to himself. "Do you like my outfit?"

"Oh no.." I covered my eyes with one hand. "I remember saying something about something being sexy... Did I tell you while I was half asleep that you look sexy?"

"Yeah," he was chuckling now, "you told me to hurry back so you could take it off me."

"Oh my god... Horny even when I'm half asleep..." I shook my head and dropped my hand. "Well... You do look very nice.. But how was the meeting? It was the one from the phone call, right?"

"Yeah.." he ran his fingers through his hair. He looked exhausted now.. "They asked me to go on a mission, despite the fact it would be breaking our deal. So I reminded them of that and.. may have threatened to leak some very valuable information so they had me do some other things instead. Which was good... I really hadn't trained very much since so that was nice. Got a bit beat up, though."

My eyebrows furrowed, "beat up? Are you okay?"

He nodded and sighed, not convincing me at all. "How bout that vacation, hm?" This made me laugh.

"I already talked to Adley and she got some stuff figured out so... I say we start packing.." I gave a little shrug and he made a "thank god" type of gesture. "Can I learn more about this work that you do? Or am I not allowed to ask?"

"You can ask.." He stood and took my plate to the sink. I turned in my seat to watch him. "Since I stopped the more.. aggressive stuff.. they just want me to play body guard or transport materials some place. Nothing terrible but the pay is great."

"So did they offer you a job?" I pulled one knee up and rested my foot on the edge the chair and rested my chin on my knee.

The water shut off and Adrian turned around. "Yeah.. They wanted me there to escort.. someone in the airport. It'd be early tomorrow and then we can start preparing for the vacation." He looked more run down than I had ever seen him.

So I stood and approached him, only to take his hand in mine. "Come here," I spoke softly before leading him to our room where I shut the door. "You really look like you could use this vacation." I realised his outfit was too confusing for me so I told his to take the shirt off and he did as told. "Now lay on your stomach please." He laid down, burying his face in a pillow. I sat down on his lower back and started massaging his shoulders.

As I did I looked down at his skin. He had dark bruises on his ribs and dotted around on his back. He really did get beat up..

I massaged his back, careful of the bruises, although I leaned down occasionally to kiss them softly.