Page 24 of Rules We Break

We haven’t showered, and I feel gross. I also feel like I wasted an opportunity falling asleep before I could clean my girl up. Now we’re just lying here in each other’s cum and sweat.

Yummy.

I kiss her forehead. “Let’s shower.”

“Let’s not move a muscle,” she volleys back.

I laugh. “Ivy, we have to be out of here in a few hours, and we’re covered in bar smells, cum, and sweat.”

She doesn’t open her eyes, but she sticks her bottom lip out in a pout and makes a littlehuffthrough her nose.

“I know you’re right.” She hugs me tighter but still doesn’t open her eyes. “But the second we get out of bed, this special little one-night bubble we’re in gets popped.”

“It’s not that we’re going to leave this bed and never see each other again. What happened to you retiring? What happened to us dating and trying this out for real?” I poke her in her side. “Getting cold feet already, boss lady?”

She laughs and finally opens those pretty blue eyes to look at me.

“I wasn’t sure if that was the liquor talking.”

“For you or for me?” I ask. “Because if you retiring was the liquor talking, I fully support the liquor.”

“For you!” she says through her laughter. “It was a lot to throw on someone.”

“No, it wasn’t. You were justasking me out, Ivy. People do that every day.”

She shrugs.

“The only reason I thought we ended this was because we were breaking all the rules. We were sneaking around, hoping no one would catch us. It would’ve reflected horribly on both of us.” I push the hair out of her face and smile over at her. “But if you retire, that means we won’t have that hanging over our heads. We’ll just be a normal couple.”

“With a massive age gap.” She gives me a look, and I can’t help but snort in her face.

“I’d hardly call fifteen yearsmassive.” I roll my eyes.

“Not embarrassed to be seen in public all the time with a woman that much older than you?”

“Ivy…no. What? No. One, have you seen yourself? No one is ever going to guess you’re older than me. Two, it doesn’t matter what other people think because they aren’t us—they don’t get a say about our relationship.”

“Ooh,” she teases, tickling my sides. “Our relationship.”

“Don’t deflect,” I chide her, playfully pushing away her wild hands. “If you really want to do this, I will do this. After I get back to California from this next work trip, let me take you out.”

“I’m giving notice next week, but I won’t leave until the end of the quarter. I wanted to see them through Q4.”

“So, you don’t want to go out until the new year?” I ask, a little put off about the fact shestilldoesn’t want to be seen with me, even with everyone knowing she’s retiring. Especially since it would be a long shot for someone to see us out in public anyway. We live in a big-ass city. It’s hard to run into people.

“No, no, that’s not what I meant.” Her smile is soft, and it melts my heart a little. She’s looking at me like I mean something to her, and that’s new. I like it. “I was just letting you know the plan. I am more than happy to try this the moment you get back. Toronto, I’m guessing, is where you’re off to next?”

“Ugh,” I groan. “Yeah.”

“It’ll fly by. I know it’s a long week of training, but those things always end up going faster than you think.”

“Okay, enough shop talk. Can we please shower now? Now that you’ve been reassured that this is not the last time you’ll ever get to experience my magic dick?”

She bursts out laughing.

“You are so full of yourself. When did I say I didn’t want to leave this bed because of your dick?”

“My mouth, then?”

---