Page 44 of Blind Date

“I don’t mind that.” She spins me around and kisses me hard. “It smells delicious. Thank you.”

We get lost in the kisses for a moment, I almost forget about the food that I am cooking but thankfully I remember at the last moment just before I burn anything. I spin back and take everything off the hob.

“Take a seat, I will just get this all sorted and then we can eat. The first breakfast of ‘us.”

“I like the sound of that,” she muses as she takes a seat at my dining table. “That sounds good. It reminds me that we really are something now, aren’t we? Not just… well, whatever we were before.”

“Sex… buddies?” I laugh as I put the plates down in front of us. “Yes, I want to be more than that. I don’t know if you are ready to talk about putting labels on us but even if not, I want you to know that I’m not going anywhere. I am here for you for as long as you want me… unless you tell me to go again.”

“I won’t tell you to go,” she laughs. “I’m sorry that I did in the first place. I just let my insecurities get the better of me and I freaked out. I thought that it was all some kind of ploy…”

“You still thought that I was trying to take you down?” I scoff. “No way. I would never do that to you. I hope that you at least realize now I wouldn’t want to hurt you in any way. I never have and never will.”

She nods slowly, finally accepting that I wasn’t the one who leaked the sex tape online, thank goodness. It didn’t seem to matter how many times I tried to let her know that I wouldn’t do such a thing to her, I guess that it was just one of those things she needed to work out on her own once she calmed down.

“I know that now. I was just… well, you know how hard it was for me. But it doesn’t matter anymore, I don’t want to worry about the past. I am much happier to think about the future instead.” She smiles lovingly at me. “Because I think that me and you have a lot to look forward to, don’t you?”

“I do.” My face breaks out in to a smile. “And I don’t know if I have told you this yet, but I love you.”

She looks a little shell shocked for a moment before she finally recovers herself. “I… I love you too, you know. I don’t know how we are going to make it work because we’re rivals, but I’m excited to try.”

“Oh, the whole business rival’s thing.” I click my tongue a couple of times playfully. “Yes, that’s going to be a challenge to navigate, isn’t it? Competing for contracts, facing off in the office, and then coming back home to eat dinner and fool around. It’s going to be tough, isn’t it? I just don’t know how we will manage it.”

Her eyes sparkle and I can see her thinking the same as me, how sexy that it. It will be like fore play for us when we compete for jobs and that will culminate in explosive amazing sex when we get home. What could be better than that? We will find a way to make this work between us and work for us as well.

“It might be embarrassing for you when I kick your ass all the time,” she says with a shrug. “But I am willing to give it a try and see how you cope with being emasculated all the time…”

God, I love this. The back and forth is absolutely wild. It’s crazy and I don’t know what I would do without it. These flames circling between us are too much, too intense, mind blowing. I never knew that this was what I was missing with other women. I knew that I didn’t have something with them, that they weren’t right for me, but I didn’t know that it was because they weren’t arguing with me all the time, challenging me and making me feel everything that I didn’t even know I needed to feel. They weren’t Gemma and that is why it was so challenging for me to fall for them. There is something about only her that gets to me.

Once we finish eating, I circle around the table and grab Gemma in for a hug. I just know that I will always savor every second that I have her body against mine now, I will never take her for granted again because I know how empty life is without her and I wouldn’t want to go another day experiencing that again.

“What do you want to do today?” I ask her quietly. “And you are allowed to give any answer other than work because it’s time for us both to take some time off being workaholics. I can take you anywhere.”

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