The Deal by Zach Jenkins

Author:Zach Jenkins [Jenkins, Zach]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Icarus

“Brr. I didn’t expect it to be so cold in here,” I said.

Without taking his eyes off the guide who was explaining how long it had taken for the stalactite to stretch from the ceiling of the cave to the floor, Harley took off his jacket and wrapped it around my shoulders. It would have been rude to interrupt him while he was listening so intently, so I couldn’t have turned him down if I’d wanted to.

Harley did sweet things all the time without appearing to even think about it. It was just his nature. I had a hard time reconciling the man he seemed to see himself as with the one I’d gotten to know over the last week.

“Thanks for the jacket,” I said when the guide led us through a tunnel toward the next speaking spot. “But aren’t you going to get cold?” I asked.

He nodded and said, “I hope so. It’ll give me an excuse to do this.”

He wrapped me in a bear hug and gave me a kiss on the forehead. “That’s better. You always heat me up.”

“If kissing my forehead warms you up when you’re a little cold, I hope you freeze your ass off so you have to aim for my lips instead.”

Harley’s smile went slightly cockeyed when he was most amused.

Seeing the smile in the shadowy caves made me want to sneak away. Unfortunately, there was nowhere we could fool around on the guided tour.

“I’ll keep that in mind,” he said. “But I don’t think they’ll let me run around in here with my shirt off just so I have an excuse to kiss you.”

I shook free from his embrace and put my hands on my hips, and in a joking tone asked, “And just why do you need to look for an excuse to kiss me?”

I hoped it was clear I was fishing for a kiss rather than actually starting a fight.

Harley answered my question by stepping forward and pressing his body against mine. With my back pinned against the cave wall, it was a toss-up between which was harder. I ran my hands up his chest and gave his pecs a squeeze to test.

Harley glanced over each shoulder to make sure no one was looking before leaning down and giving me the most passionate kiss he’d given me since we’d gotten out of the car in the parking lot.

Once the dam had broken on our wedding night, Harley never missed a moment to kiss or touch me. We felt like teens who had just found our first love, and couldn’t keep our hands off of each other.

Neither of us had risked bringing up the topic of exactly where things were headed. We both seemed to be just having fun and living in the moment.

His parents were coming home soon and we were scheduled to meet them to discuss Harley’s money. The closer the day came to meeting them, the more I dreaded it.

Not because of them, but because of what it meant for our marriage.

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