He was livid by the time she got to the house. Thank God for his workout room in the basement, she thought when she saw him hit the bean bag with a ferocity that made her blood run cold. She took off her shoes and sat on a weight-lifting bench to watch him.
"Hey babe," he said, finally putting his hands down, brushing his lips against hers.
"Hey yourself. How you doing?"
"I am ticked off!!!"
"Tell me about it?"
"Well, first off, your dear uncle puts me in a match against that... thing!"
"Kane," Kai said with a smile.
"Yeah. And then, I lose to the big, red ugly! And then... and then... the day after, I have to go up against Big Red, AGAIN, and Fat Ass with the biggest ego in the business."
"But you won Chris."
Chris looked down at Kai, at her smiling, understanding face and he threw his arms down.
"I won."
"So what exactly were you mad for?"
"Damned if I know."
Kai laughed and held her arms to Chris but her nose wrinkled when he approached her.
"You smell," she said with half a smile.
"And if I plan it right, you'll be sweaty real soon too."
"Is that so?"
"Yeah," he said, grinning as he drew closer to her.
"Nope," she said, dancing out of his approaching embrace... you still smell... now... off to the shower with you."
"You don't love me," he pouted.
"I do... it's your smell that grosses me out. Now go!"
Chris shuffled to the bathroom, throwing Kai a few sad looks over his shoulder.
"Go on," she urged him, waving him away, "the longer it takes you to get there, the longer it'll take you to get to me."
Kai watched Chris stalk into the bathroom and slowly counted down to a hundred. Then, she started taking her clothes off as she made her way to their bathroom. She leaned against the entrance to the bathroom for a moment, watching his body through the glass as he scrubbed himself down.
And she would have watched him longer if she hadn't been desperate to join him.
"You got room for one more in there?" she asked him as she slid aside the shower door.
"Always."
Chris stepped aside and Kai joined him. He quickly placed her under the spray, smiling as she yelped at the intense heat.
"That was mean," she sputtered, sliding wet hair off her face.
"Yeah... but it was fair... you tease."
"I'm not a tease."
"You said I smelled."
"And you did... but now you don't... you smell good... delicious even."
"You're a tease," he whispered, slanting his mouth across hers, "my tease."
Chris and Kai exchanged a kiss that would have melted ice cream into a messy puddle in a second flat. She was perfect, he mused, as he ran his soapy hands up and down her wet back. The only woman who had but to look at him, mad or happy, and he'd get hard. Like he was now.
"I can't wait," he whispered into her neck.
"It's okay... neither can I."
He cupped her ass into his large hands and pushed her back against the tile wall until he could thrust into her. And he did so... quickly and hard. Pushing into her as she grasped him as tightly and as lovingly as a velvet fist. With a series of rapid, intense thrusts, they dissolved into each other's arms.
Night found them in each other's arms, smiling in their sleep. Chris was dreaming and saw himself in his baby's arms through eternity...