Hello there!

I'm so happy you liked the last chapter so much. I know you've asked about the party and the honeymoon, I'm working on it, but I still don't have the picture of the party, so I can ashure there's going to be a full chapter about it. In the meantime this popped in my head. I hope you'll like it.

As always thank you so much for your support. And I'm already waiting for your comments.

Grumpiness

Rafael grunted as he laid on the couch with his head on Olivia's lap, and she glanced away from her book for a few seconds to look what time it was on her phone.

"How many stories tonight?" She asked when she saw he had been in Noah's room for almost forty-five minutes.

"Two." He said looking at her like he was innocent, it only took her raising her eyebrows to have him confess. "Two times each, but it wasn't a big deal."

"Rafa!"

"I know." He said. "But it's Friday, and he's excited about tomorrow's shopping day. And those eyes!" He complained, thinking about Noah's puppy eyes.

"I know. I can see right now from whom Noah learned it." Olivia said making them both smile.

"Am I not supposed to teach him important things?" He asked playfully, making her roll her eyes at his cockiness. "Anyway, how was your day?"

"Exhausting." Olivia murmured as her hand went to Rafael's hair and started caressing it, making him groan. "Mostly meetings and paperwork." She said before they were interrupted by Rafael's chirping phone, making him remove the hand he had been covering his face with.

It was when she started to read again that she saw him by the corner of her eyes, grunting again as he wrote a message not caring if the broke the screen of his phone.

"My mother." He said before she could ask. "Reminding me again about one of the millions of things she has to make sure we checked for the party." He said. Their wedding party was due in a week, and surprisingly they had all done, the only things left to was to buy some clothes. "It enervates me."

"I'm sorry. If you want I can say something to her." She offered, her hand never leaving his greying hair.

"And I love you for that." He said patting her knee. "It won't change anything. All you said to her during our first lunch with her after our wedding did nothing." Rafael said as he put the phone on the coffee table. "She can't understand why a woman wouldn't want a day when she's the princess, so her minds put me as the bad one." He murmured caressing her calf muscle.

"Rafi," Olivia said feeling bad for him.

"It's ok." He said looking at her with a smile. "She's mad because she didn't have the opportunity to show us off to my family."

"Oh,"

"Yeah, in my family weddings are serious affairs."

"And on top of that, we decide to have an intimate party as a celebration with just the people closest to us."

"You could say it like this," Rafael said. "The other day she told me I had lured you to the dark side." He said chucking and making her laugh too.

"She's not the only one who thinks this." Olivia murmured.

"What?" Rafael asked surprised. "Wait, that's why Fin has been giving me dirty looks for the last month?"

"What?" It was Olivia's turn to be surprised. Her prior remark had been to allude to herself, Rafael had been the one who had challenged like no one. But now she was shocked when her team had seen the ring they had been happy for her, just a bit annoyed about losing a party opportunity. "He didn't say anything, he was happy for us, the rest of the team too."

"I'll have to talk to him then," Rafael said pensive not noticing how Olivia's mouth remained open after a silent oh!

"No, you don't." She said cryptically.

"Why?" Rafael asked. "We see each other at work and outside. What do you want me to do?" He asked looking at her face, she was biting her lip, and she evaded eye contact. "What did you do?"

"Nothing."

"And I'm supposed to believe that."

"Yes." She said smiling.

"What did you do?" He asked her again, pinching her calf muscle, and making her jump.

"Ok!" She said taking a deep breath. "I forgot about it, but I might have told him about your vacations with Rita at Florida. He told me they were thinking about going there with the kids..."

"And?" He asked wanting to know the end of her answer, but then a memory of his past came. "You didn't... Tell me you didn't tell him that." Rafael said hiding his face in his hands. "Olivia!" He exclaimed knowing her answer when she said nothing and saw her between his fingers trying to stop her laughter. "I told you that under the oath of secrecy."

"I'm sorry." She offered smirking.

"You might be sorry for telling him, but you are not sorry for my suffering." He said making her laugh more. "It was eons ago. We were really drunk and stupid. Even when I only have a few images of that night, I was so drunk I didn't look at her. She could have been dancing naked in front of me that I wouldn't have looked. I don't know if she did that, but I didn't care at that time."

"I know," Olivia said, still smirking.

"But he doesn't."

"I don't think so."

"What did you tell him!?" Rafael groaned again.

"I might have given him the idea that Rita knew good places to go skinny dipping after you two went to Florida."

"Gods!" He groaned grabbing his phone. "And how did you two ended talking about this?"

"I don't know. It just came up," Olivia said. "What are you doing?" She asked amused by his reaction.

"Fixing your mess." He said as he quickly tipped on his phone.

"How?"

"I'm texting Rita." He explained. "I want all this fixed as soon as it can be."

"You coward," Olivia said laughing at him.

"There's no way he would believe me. If it was me, I know I wouldn't, even when we didn't know each other yet."

"So, you'll make her bribe him with sex."

"There is no need to be so literal." He said smirking and looking at her with mischief in his eyes from his spot on her lap. "She knows how to handle him. Just like you do with me." As much as she could hate his cockiness and the easiness he had to put her at the edge so quickly, she always ended with a smile on her face. If that smile was from exasperation or amusement or both was another question.

"Is that a demand?" She asked as her hands moved to touch his chest under his t-shirt.

"Well, you put me in this mess, and I'm resolving it. Don't you think I deserve a reward?" Rafael asked smirking.

"What kind of reward?" Olivia asked, both of them surely aroused.

"Come here," Rafael said grabbing her clothes to make her come closer to him, and plan a kiss on her lips.

"That kind." He murmured on her lips when a voice came from the hallway.

"Papi!" Noah came running to them and jumped on Rafael's chest.

"Noah!" He said still surprised. "You should be sleeping."

"But I can't sleep." The boy said.

"But if you don't tomorrow won't come." He said solemnly hearing how Olivia laughed at their antics.

"But I dreamed that we wore paw patrol suspenders," Noah said. When they had told him about the party, Noah had been serious in wanting a pair of suspenders to go to the party well-dressed like Rafael.

"What about a stripped ones?" Rafael asked as he sat on the couch with Noah on his lap. Olivia had to bite her lips to stop another laugh when she pictured Rafa with paw patrol suspenders.

"Strips are cool," Olivia said wanting to give Rafael a hand.

"Ok," Noah said after giving the idea a long thought.

"But now we sleep."

"But I'm not sleepy," Noah said, and Rafael signed knowing how difficult it could be to make the boy sleep when he was so excited.

"But I'm sleepy." He said, not minding going to bed earlier than their usual. "And mommy is sleepy too." He was already up, holding Noah on one hip when he landed a stretched a hand to Olivia. "Let's go to bed. We'll pile together tonight."

Sometimes Olivia had been afraid she would never find a man to share all this, who wouldn't not only not get mad because of their alone adult time suddenly disappeared because of her boy or her work and who instead would smile and say funny things and who would coach her and cheer her up despite neither of them would want her to leave. And looking at Rafael still making silly remarks to Noah while he guided them all to their room, not being mad for even a second because their possible sex night had become an overbooked bed with the three of them, she couldn't be happier and more fortunate.

"Rafa?" Olivia called him.

"Yeah?"

"Rain check?" She asked him bitting her lip.

"Always." He said as he went to put Noah in the middle of their bed. "Always." He murmured again as he went to plant a quick kiss on her lips.