Page 37 of Ruck Me

“Shut up, you’re just sayingthat.”

“I promise you I’m not. That was … shit. Fucking epic, Aoife.”

“Yeah, it was, wasn’t it?” She chuckled.

“We are going to be so fucking good together, baby.”

“I like that, by theway.”

“What’s that?” I asked, wiping my hand on a towel from my earlier shower.

“That you call me baby. I like it,” she confessed.

I thought about it for a second. I’d never called a girl I was with anything but her name and I had no idea where it had come from. It had just slipped out, kind of how Aoife had just snuck up on me. Even though the endearment wasn’t something I’d consciously decided to use, I found myself smiling. “I like that you likeit.”

“Oh shit, Colleen’s calling me to come downstairs,” she suddenly whispered. “I have togo.”

“Sweet dreamsbaby.”

“You too,” she said, blowing me a loud kiss just before hangingup.

I stared at myself in the mirror for a few moments, pondered the wide grin and happy eyes that stared back. Shit. I didn’t know how it had happened or why, but I was definitely falling for thisgirl.

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