Page 83 of Angels Above

She wouldn’t keep that part from him just because she got sidetracked by a walk down memory lane.

“Was it a clicking sound?” he asked. “You know, like you picking at your thumbnail with your teeth?”

“Very funny,” she said, looking at the grin on his face. “But yes, it was.”

“It’s the pipes up there. I have the thermostat set lower up there since I only use that space to work out and don’t want it hot anyway. But it’s colder than a bitch out today so I’m sure it was that. I’ll go check.”

She felt like an idiot. “No. That’s it. Now that you say that I do remember walking past hot air leaving the room.”

“There you go,” he said. He moved closer to her. “Are you afraid of mice?”

“I’m afraid of most critters. I think that is completely normal.”

He picked her up by the waist and kissed her on the lips. “I’d save you from that nasty little beady-eyed thing.”

“You’re damn right you would,” she said. Rather than putting her back on the ground, he lifted her higher and she found herself hanging upside down on his shoulder. “What are you doing?”

“Taking care of you,” he said, his hand coming down on her ass. “You’re the one that said I’m boring.”

She started to laugh. “I don’t know that I said‎ that exactly.”

“Close enough,” he said.

He moved out of his room. “Where are we going?”

“The hot tub,” he said.

“What?” she asked. “You’ve got a hot tub? Why am I just hearing this now?”

“Because you haven’t been downstairs since the first time you were here or in my backyard. It’s not that I use it often.”

He was moving down the stairs to the basement. When he flipped the lights on she still didn’t see it on the patio off the room down there.

“Why have it if you don’t use it much and where is it?”

“Off to the side,” he said. “Unless you went out there you wouldn’t see it. And I got it a few years ago when I pulled a muscle in my back. It was great.”

She hadn’t known that about him either.

He put her on her feet and started to reach for her clothing. “You just said it’s colder than a bitch out there.”

“So,” he said, pulling her shirt over her head. “That’s why you rush to get in the tub and then when you get out you rush to get in the house.”

She wanted to protest some more but decided this would be fun. And after her crying jag she needed this to take her mind off of what she’d found earlier.

“There are no towels down here,” she said.

He stopped from undoing his jeans and walked over behind the bar, opened a drawer and then pulled out two towels.

“Got us covered,” he said.

“Guess we are getting naked in the middle of the winter and going outside,” she said.

Mia stripped as fast as he did, then he opened the door and quickly lifted the cover.

“Don’t judge me if I’m not at my fullest.”

She looked at his cock and saw it still standing firm and started to giggle. “I’m not too worried,” she said.

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