Page 29 of The Thorne at My Side
"Hi.” She says nervously.
“Hi Maggie.” I smirk.
“Okay, so, oh god,” she looks up at the ceiling and takes a deep inhale. “Have you ever had a fuck buddies arrangement?” She blurts out. Her face looks just as surprised as I feel, like she heard her words for the first time when shesaid them out loud.
I freeze where I am and watch her chest rise and fall with her breath.
"Have you?" I ask, not answering her question.
"No," she admits, "but I can see the value."
Can she?
"Why are you asking, Maggie?"
"I think you know why."
I can't help the smile that spreads across my face. I have wanted to get my hands and lips back onto Maggie since they first experienced her. I've been doing everything in my power to get to know her, to get closer to her, to be in her orbit since we met.
"How do you propose we start?" I ask.
I watch her eyelashes bat up and down and she inhales sharply.
"Not like that Maggie, I mean boundaries, rules. Clear lines drawn."
"Oh," she says with a flutter of a laugh and her hand comes up against her throat. "How about between now and the election?"
"Okay, and how often?"
"I'll be traveling for the campaign and not on a regular schedule the next three weeks, so how about we give the other person a twelve hour heads up?"
"Via text?"
"Sure."
"Done," I agree and I hold out my hand to shake. She laughs and shakes it. I hand her my phone to enter her contact info.
"Is that really how you want to seal this deal?" She asks with an eyebrow raised in challenge and she puts her name in.
She holds the phone out for me and I see that she’s enteredjust her initials.
M.C.
“Not giving me your full name huh?”
“Austin the less people who know about this or have the opportunity to find out about it, the better. I didn’t go full code name but I think we can K.I.S.S.”
“We already did.”
“Keep It Simple Stupid.”
I laugh, and then lean in to press a kiss to her cheek.
“Consider this your twelve hour heads up, MC." I check my watch. "Well, more like a sixteen hour heads up, but text me your address and I'll be there in the morning."
CHAPTER 11
“So, we're just going t–”
