Antonio woke up when the sunlight streamed through the blinds, he groggily rolled over and reached towards Beth's side of the bed but it was empty except for the kitten who was sound asleep on Beth's pillow. He looked around for his shorts and pulled them on and went searching for her, he knew that today was that yarn thing she needed to go to and he hoped he didn't oversleep. He'd been sleeping late every day that he was home, he knew he was worn out but this was insane. He paused in the doorway and watched his Beth, she was sitting cross legged in the middle of the living room floor wearing nothing but his old World Cup jersey, her hair was half pulled up, and she was chewing on the end of a pen. Her laptop was open and she was looking through piles of papers and receipts. She would make a few clicks on the touchpad, tap a few keys and shuffle her papers, then jot something down in her little notebook. The only thing she was missing was a cup of coffee.
"Good morning mein Prinzessin. What are you doing?" He said startling her.
"Oh! Hey sleepy head! I'm just making sure I have all my numbers ready for later, last year I ran out of Christmas colored yarn before Thanksgiving and I am already running low on black wool and it's not even October yet. My customers take their holiday crafting VERY seriously."
"Would you like me to make you some coffee?"
She snorted, "I already drank a whole pot, I tried to save you some but I was up very early and you slept very late."
"Well then I suppose I will stop at Starbucks on the way. Do I have time for a shower?"
She nodded while writing more notes to herself. He squatted down next to her and pushed her hair over her shoulder and kissed her neck, "Join me, you look like you could use a nice hot shower."
She moaned but shook her head, "I can't, I need to go through a few more pages of receipts. Besides I showered already. We need to leave within the hour."
He straightened up and headed towards the bathroom, Beth had never turned him down before, this was more important to her than he imagined.
Beth sighed, she wanted nothing more than to be wet and soapy with her man, but she just had to make sure she got all these orders right, the holiday season was a big deal and she didn't want to have empty shelves again. She finished her paperwork and put everything in a plastic folder in her desk drawer where Einstein wouldn't be able to get his little paws on it and walked into her bedroom to get dressed just as Antonio was getting out of the shower. He strolled in with one of her pretty pink towels wrapped around his hips, his muscular thighs exposed, his chest hair still damp, she sucked in a deep breath and felt sharp pangs of desire shoot through her core. She stood in front of him on her tiptoes and kissed his lips, plunging her tongue in his mouth when he gasped in surprise, she ran her fingers through his chest hair and up his shoulder, gripping the back of his neck. Her other hand traced his happy trail to the top of the towel where she paused before circling her arm around his hips. She sucked his tongue as she broke the kiss and stood back biting her lip and said softly "rain check on the shower. I owe you." And turned away and grabbed her clothes before she changed her mind and made herself very late for the fiber festival.
Antonio raised an eyebrow and smirked as all the blood rushed to his dick. "Tease," he said as he watched her bend over to pull her panties on.
Six hours later, with very sore feet, Beth and Antonio parked his car in front of Heart Strings and joined Sara and Ashley in the craft corner. They both had four very large bags overflowing with yarn samples, "I guess it went well," Sara said taking some of the bags from Beth and spreading the skeins of wool and cotton on the table in front of them.
"It was great! We will have more Halloween colors and pattern books in the end of the week. Our next crochet class can be those cute plush bat amigurimis!"
Ashley squealed, Beth knew she was dying to teach an amigurimi course. "Ok, these are samples, just note the name, material and color on the label when you are working with it and let me know what you think. These are potential year round suppliers."
Antonio tried not to laugh as the three women tore through the samples like little kids on Christmas morning bickering over who would get what, at one point he even threatened to separate them if they couldn't play nice.
"I'm starving, Prinzessin, we haven't eaten all day. Let's get some dinner."
Beth looked at him and then at her employees, they shooed her out the door, promising to lock up. "Oh! Wait! Beth! Here, try this new sushi place, it has excellent reviews from my book club," Sara said pulling a menu out from behind the counter.
"You interested in sushi?" She asked as Antonio's stomach growled. "Well then... Guess we are trying it! Thanks Sara! Good night ladies!"
Beth was convinced that they had way too much food, her kitchen table was covered with all kinds of sushi and sashimi, Einstein sat wide eyed staring at the table, she caught him trying to swipe a sashimi more than once. Finally when she thought Antonio wasn't looking she let him have a piece of salmon. She ate until she thought she would burst but Antonio polished off every single grain of rice on the dishes, she was hoping she would be able to sneak another bite of fish for Einstein, they both looked at Antonio and all the empty dishes in shock.
"What? You didn't let me stop for lunch! I haven't eaten all day!"
She shook her head, "You had that god awful smelling Quest bar, stop being so dramatic."
"Yeah, well, that was breakfast."
"Oh? Then what was that egg white and turkey bacon on an organic whole grain English muffin?" she said scrunching up her face at the thought of that horrible whole grain cardboard bread, there wasn't enough butter on the planet to make that thing taste good.
"That was also breakfast. And it was too much carbs," he said clearing off the table.
She rolled her eyes, "You only ate half of the bread!"
"And that was only because I needed something to hold it together."
"So, half a whole grain muffin has too many carbs, but all the sushi rice you just inhaled is OK?"
"I always make an exception for sushi. Besides, I didn't think you'd agree to brown rice," he said laughing at the face she made. "Good thing today is my cheat day."
"Did you hear that, Einstein? It's his cheat day," she said scratching her kitten's ears, he mewed, clearly annoyed that he didn't get more fish.
He shook his head, "Still, even for a cheat day, I went a little overboard. Well, maybe a lot overboard."
"Well then I guess you better figure out a way to burn it all off," she said as she strolled towards the bathroom, "Oh man, my back is stiff," she stretched her arms up high and groaned as her shoulders popped. "A nice hot shower..."
Her shirt slid up as she stretched showing her smooth soft belly and the way her back arched made him flash back to the night before when she dug her nails into his biceps and cried out his name. He dropped the takeout containers in the trash and started pulling his clothes off as he followed her to the bathroom, "I can help with that, mein Prinzessin. Plus I distinctly remember you saying that you owe me."
