Author's Note: I'm sorry it's short and I'm sorry you had to wait so long for it. I am currently writing the next chapter for this and my other story, so bear with me! And keep letting me know what you think!
Chapter 9: Decisions
I woke up in the middle of the night to Ranger kissing and licking my back.
"Uhhgn," I know, eloquence at my best. "Ranger, haven't you had enough?"
"Nope, I plan to make you scream."
"Tank's downstairs."
"No, I sent him to the hotel to call Lula." He placed a hard thigh between my legs, opening my legs wide enough for him to reach a hand and feel my already slick folds. "Hmm, seems someone else hasn't had enough."
"What can I say? You've turned me into a nympho."
"Babe," he said huskily. He moved his hand to my clit. I moaned and rubbed my butt against his growing erection. Ranger growled.
He slid into me and then I screamed.
A couple of hours and two showers (well, one with Ranger, and one to actually shower) later, we were sitting down to breakfast just as the sun was rising.
The curiosity was eating me up inside. I knew that the next few days were going to be the most difficult as we decided what to do next.
"Ranger?"
"Babe?"
"What now?"
He raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"What are we going to do?"
"I'm going to stay here as long as you're here."
"I can't let you do that."
"What?"
"I'm not going to let you stay thousands of miles away from your company just so you can stay here with me."
"Then come back to Trenton with me."
"No way. Uh uh, they still think I ran off with your love child."
"You know, we can make that true." He said huskily, eyes blackening with lust.
"Ranger, this is not the time to play smack down on the kitchen table. We already tried that once and got barged in on. Three times." But the little boy from my dreams haunted me.
"Babe? You okay?" Ranger asked, bringing me out of my reverie.
"Yeah, sure. So what now?"
"Babe," the tone said, why are you worrying about this? We'll work it out later.
"No, Ranger, we need to have some kind of plan."
"How much longer is your lease?"
"It's up whenever. I pay under the table."
"So you have three weeks left."
"Yeah, but…"
"And if in three weeks, you don't want to go back, we'll stay."
"Ranger, you can't stay away from the business anymore than you have!"
"Why? I do it all the time when I go in the wind!"
"But this is different! You're not in the wind!"
"I want to be with you. It doesn't matter where. I'll get a laptop shipped to me."
"And run the company from a little office in the den? No, you belong in your cushy office. In Trenton."
"What are you saying? You don't want me?"
He was taking this the wrong way. "God, no, it's just I don't want you to change everything for me!"
"How would you define our relationship?" He asked me. Whoa, when did Batman want to get all relationship talky on me? "Right now."
"We're friends."
"Just friends?"
"Well, no, but…"
"But what?"
"You don't want a relationship. Other than completely sexual."
"What if I changed my mind?"
"Did you?"
"Yes." I could have been knocked over by a feather.
"Why?"
"Because I love you. You make me crave things I haven't wanted in a long time. Stephanie, you are my life. I would do anything for you! I love you! I…" he got this strange look on his face.
"What?"
"Marry me."
Oh, boy.
