It still feels like a dream every morning when I wake up next to Leo.Moving in with him was the best decision I’ve ever made.Actually, quitting The Yellow Door was.Without it, I never would have met Leo, nor would I find myself in bed with him, wrapped around his warm body.
“Good morning,” he purrs into my hair, his voice hoarse and raspy but so fucking sexy.I still can’t believe I get to wake up next to this man every single day.It’s completely crazy to me that somehow, despite all the bullshit, we were able to get past it.
Things with Roy are good.It’s like the incident with me quitting never even happened, and if anything, it’s made him change his approach.He’s getting better, taking little steps to change the things that have been ingrained in him since he began studying to be a chef.I understand it’s hard to change after so many years, but he’s putting in a solid effort and it’s showing in his business.He’s retaining employees and he even seems happier when we see him.
“Good morning,” I murmur back, sliding my hand down the taut muscles of his stomach and finding what I’m looking for.“How is it that you wake up this way every morning and somehow, we get out the door without having sex?”
“I’m hoping we don’t get out the door today,” Leo flirts back, his fingers tracing softs circles on my bare skin as I begin to stroke him.
“Well, we have to leave at some point, but I think we can arrange a quickie,” I say, smiling as I kiss him.
I take in a deep breath, memorizing his smell and no matter where I go, I have that smell with me.He smells like the place I love, the place I found myself and the place I found the person I want to spend the rest of my life with.He smells of wonderfully cooked food and apple orchards and wine.He smells like my forever.
“What if I want to go slow?”Leo asks, dragging out his words, his tongue tracing a path along my neck and up to my ear.“What if I want to taste you and make you come over and over?”
“Leo,” I shame, but loving every word.“You are a very naughty boy, and you are very hard to turn down.”
“The baby isn’t going anywhere,” he replies, settling himself between my legs.Looking up the length of my body with his gorgeous brown eyes, there’s no way I can say no, especially when his mouth begins its delicious assault.
“Yes,” I moan, trying not to make it sound like it’s in response to what he’s currently doing to me, but I fail miserably.“But we still have to go to work and the baby…” Fuck my life, he’s damn good at this.He has my thoughts completely lost in what he’s doing and I totally forget my argument.
“We’ll get there, Hannah,” Leo now says, smirking at me.“But first I need to get you there.”
A few hours later Leo and I are pulling up outside Dylan and Tessa’s house.We’re shockingly only about twenty minutes late, which isn’t so bad given all we accomplished.And if I’m being honest here, Dylan’s already expecting me to be late.It’s kind of my thing.Why change now?
“You ready to meet your niece?”Leo asks me, and as much as I am ready, what I’m not ready for is dealing with my mother and her million questions about when I’m going to have a baby.
She’s not going to like the answer I give her, and more than likely will brush it off telling me that I just need more time to think about it.But Leo and I have talked in quite a lot of detail and our decision is firm.We love our jobs and our quiet life and it’s not like we came to the decision to not have kids lightly.
I’m so happy for Dylan and Tessa and I know Dylan is going to be an amazing dad, and I’m going to be a kick ass aunt, but that’s all I want to be.I want to spoil their baby terribly and then hand her back over to her parents.I want to keep my life exactly as it is, working late into the night in the kitchen and falling into bed with Leo.This is who we are, and I love it.We love it.
“I am and are you ready to give Dylan a bunch of shit again for inventing a sex toy?”
Leo’s head falls back, laughing.“I don’t think today is the time for that, Han.Aren’t your parents supposed to be here too?”
“They are, but do you think they don’t know he invented a sex toy?I mean, he’s rolling in the bucks, living in this place, working a job he loves because he doesn’t even have to work.”
“I gotta say, your family is pretty interesting if they’re all cool with Dylan raking in the money off something we keep in our nightstand.”
“My family is interesting?”I question, narrowing my eyes at him.“You are named after a rapper and an actor, and there was a time when your dad was known as the meanest chef in San Francisco.”
“Ah, yes, but my amazing girlfriend showed him the error of his ways and he’s a changed man.”
“And to think, I thought it would be the end of us,” I tease, reaching over and resting my hand on his cheek.It seems funny now, but I really did believe that what happened between Roy and me would ruin what Leo and I have.Now it feels like nothing could ever separate us.
“Never.You weren’t getting rid of me that easily,” Leo replies.“I was fucking obsessed with you, Hannah, from day one and I still am.”
“The feeling is mutual.”
He leans over and kisses me quickly before exiting the car and opening the trunk.I follow him around to the back of the car and we begin to take out the boxes.
“You think this is enough?”I ask, worried that I haven’t done enough.Being a new parent is hard but being a new parent and having the dad be pretty much clueless is probably even harder.
“Hannah, you can’t be serious.”Leo slams the trunk, almost like he’s trying to drive home the point of his rhetorical question.
“I am serious.Do you think this will last them a while?I don’t want either of them worrying about what they’re going to eat.I’m sure they’re already exhausted.”
“Well, let’s see, we made seven breakfasts, six lunches and fourteen dinners, and both of us work at restaurants, so if they do run out, I’m certain one of us can whip something up and run it over to them.”
