Page 79 of My Almost Ex

“Damn, you need to turn your brain off.” I nudge her to get up and direct her hips to straddle me. I place my hand on her cheeks. “We decided to throw all that shit out the window. I love this new Lucy thing you’re trying out, but that doesn’t change how I feel about the old Lucy either. She’s still here, you know?” I place a hand over her heart. “You can’t erase her, and I don’t want you to.”

She leans forward, her tits pressing to my chest. “Okay,” she says unconvincingly.

“Say it with more gusto.”

“Okay,” she says a little louder, and I allow her the reprieve so we can have an enjoyable night.

“There you go.” I place my lips on hers. I’m never going to grow tired of kissing her now that I know what it’s like not to be able to. “You still have two more to try. The two hottest ones.”

She shakes her head. “No way. I won’t have any taste buds left.”

“Do you wanna know which one you loved?”

“I’m guessing honey barbeque?”

I shake my head. “Inferno.”

“Really?” Her eyes widen.

I shake my head and chuckle.

“What then?”

“You didn’t eat wings.”

Her forehead falls to my shoulder. “I think I’m getting farther away from the old me rather than closer.”

I wrap my arms around her and kiss her temple. “You’re just more open to new things now. Nothing wrong with that.”

She nestles into my neck. “Adam?”

My hand runs down the hair splayed against her back. “Yeah?”

“Will you sleep with me tonight?”

I stiffen for a moment. I’m not sure I can go into our old bedroom just yet. Especially with all the boxes of our old life filling the space. “How about you sleep with me tonight?”

She picks up her head to look at me.

“I’m not ready.”

She stares for a moment before nodding. “Okay.”

Eventually I’ll need to address what that room represents, but for the moment, I’m going to enjoy getting this far.

I’m in the kitchen, packing my lunch for work, when Lucy walks down the stairs from the bedroom. It’s been a few days, and although I’d rather be here with her, I have to go to work. We’ve been hiding out since we don’t want our business everywhere, but it’s time for me to get back to my regular routine. Plus, she wants to tell her mom today, which should go as well as putting a cheetah and an antelope in the same cage.

I pour her coffee and slide it across the counter. She doesn’t pick it up but instead comes right over to me. She switched up her pajamas last night, wearing a tank top and shorts, saying she’s warmer in bed with me than when she’s alone.

“Good morning,” I say before kissing her.

She wraps her arms around my waist. “I was going to wake you up with a blow job this morning, but you wore me out last night.”

We’ve been going at one another like fucking bunnies. Thank god she has an IUD, otherwise I would’ve made a condom run at least three times by now and it probably would’ve ended up on Nikki’s show. I haven’t walked around with a hard-on this much since I was fourteen.

“And what brought on this plan?”

“Wanted to make sure you were thinking of me today,” she says, her fingers inching down my stomach.

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