Page 64 of Love Undiscovered
“Are you a morning person or a night person?”
“Neither,” she says.
“How can you be neither?”
“Well, I hate mornings, so I’m clearly not a morning person,” she says. “But I also don’t stay up late at night. So, neither. I’d say I’m more of a sleep person. What about you?”
“I’m a morning person. I love getting up before the sun, dragging Hudson down to the beach, and running ‘til we’re pumped. Then coming home and getting a jump start on my day.”
“That sounds awful.” She shudders. “Who is Hudson?”
“Hudson is my dog.”
“I love dogs. What kind?”
“Siberian Husky.”
“Oh, Lexie has huskies too. Like seven of them, I think.”
“That’s a lot of fur.”
“Totally. She loves them though.”
“If you hate mornings, what are your thoughts on morning sex?” I ask, going off script.
“It’s great, as long as it ends up being worth waking up for,” she says. “But then let me go back to sleep after.”
“Sex makes you tired?” I ask, trying not to appear as though I’m already imagining us having sex.
“If it’s good sex, yeah. Really it’s orgasms that make me tired.”
“Would you like to be tired now?” I ask.
She throws her head back; a full belly laugh resonates in our little corner of the restaurant.
Laughing is good.
“Sex amps me the fuck up,” I say as she quiets.
“How annoying.”
“Not really, not if you’re expecting it.”
“Okay,” she says. “So it’s morning, and we’ve had sex.”
I attempt to subtly readjust when I feel myself getting a little hard at the idea of sex with Remi. Especially morning sex with Remi, because that means I’ve already spent the night with her.
I clear my throat a bit. “Yeah?”
“And you’re pumped, and I’m tired. What do you do?”
“Well, clearly, I let you sleep. Because you can be a real bitch when you don’t get enough sleep—”
She scoffs. I continue, “And so I go on my run with Hudson, come back home, shower, make you coffee, then wake you up. Gently.”
“What if I don’t like coffee?”
“Who doesn’t like coffee? That’s like saying you don’t like sex. But, ironically, that’s actually a question on the list, coffee or tea? So, which is it?”
