“What do you wanna do today?” he asked, twisting to put his coffee mug to a nightstand after taking a sip.

Go down on you, fuck, you go down on me again, fuck more, move on to making love and sometime in there eat and snooze before we pass out for the night, I did not say.

“I don’t know, what do you wanna do?” I asked instead.

“Finish breakfast, fuck, nap, fuck, eat lunch, maybe a quick tourney of Pac-Man, fuck again, eat dinner, watch a movie, fuck then sleep,” he said mostly what I thought, with some welcome alterations.

I bit off a hunk of croissant and jam and smiled at him with my mouth closed.

He watched my mouth as he queried, “Is that indication you’re down with my plan?”

I nodded exuberantly while chewing.

He chuckled and grabbed the knife that was in the jam jar. A jar that sat on a dinner plate which was acting as a tray on his bed.

He thus commenced in loading up his croissant.

He liked a lot of jam.

So did I.

Mm.

“You were beautiful last night, baby,” he murmured before he took his own bite.

Yes.

He’d told me that last night.

Not that a repeat sucked.

“Thanks,” I said shyly.

“Particularly liked ‘Do You Wanna Touch Me.’”

He would.

“I got that when you touched me there a lot after we got back from Smithie’s,” I joked.

“Punk in pointe shoes,” he muttered, going for some butter to prepare his next bite. “Fuckin’ genius.”

I felt something skate over my skin.

And the sensation was like someone was trailing a soft cashmere blanket over my body.

That said…

I didn’t often pull out the pointe shoes at Smithie’s. If it didn’t work for the routines—which were meant to be provocative, titillating, not a showcase of dancing talent, so they didn’t often work—I didn’t try to fit them in.

But there was something gloriously suggestive in adding the grace of being en pointe with the hard chords and blatant invitation of that song.

I couldn’t run away en pointe.

So if you wanted to touch, all you had to do was reach out, and I couldn’t get away.

You had me.

But genius?

“Thanks,” I repeated, my voice funny.

His gaze came to me.

“What?” he asked.

“What what?” I asked back.

“What’s with the voice?”

It wasn’t like he was deaf, though it was coming clear he wasn’t one to let things slide.

“Just…” I tipped my head to the side, “genius?”

“You think I’m full of shit?” he asked bluntly.

Nope, definitely not one to let things slide.

“No,” I answered. “I think you want me to feel good about myself.”

“And you think I’d do that by feeding you a line?”

I studied him closely.

He didn’t seem mad.

He seemed inquisitive.