Previous Chapter: I sniffed, "Could you maybe just lie here with me until I fall asleep?"
He rolled onto his back pulling me on top of him.
I rested my head on his chest allowing my muscles to fully relax. My eyelids grew heavy as the sound of Ranger's steady heartbeat drowned out the thoughts in my head.
"Proud of you, Babe," Ranger kissed my ear.
I woke up with a pounding headache and the light beaming through my window. The pounding continued as I looked up at my clock — 7:08am.
As the pounding continued I laid back and stared at the ceiling. I only got a few hours of sleep. I don't even remember how long it took me to pass out or when Ranger had left my bed. I ran my hand over the imprint in the bed in the shape of Ranger's body.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
Shit. That wasn't my head it was someone beating on the door. I dragged myself out of bed confused as to how I ended up wearing a large black T-shirt when I could've sworn I fell asleep in my underwear. I lifted the rim of the shirt to up to my nose and inhaled the heavenly scent of Ranger. He was definitely an intriguing individual.
I did a double take at the sight of my bedroom — all of my clothes were gone. I pulled open my dresser and found all of my clothes folded neatly inside. My clothes and hung up in my closet tidily.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
I walked out into the living room and everything was put back into place.
"Ranger," I whispered under my breath. He was like my Fairy Godmother — correction — Guardian Angel. God knows I didn't want to emasculate Ranger by calling him a fairy. The thought of Ranger neatly folding my panties made my stomach do flip flops.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
I swung the door open.
"Alyssa!" Misty threw her arms around me and hugged me tightly.
I grimaced in pain.
"Oh I'm so sorry!" she pulled back apologetically. "Took you long enough, I was pounding on that door forever! You look like hell!"
"Thanks, Mis," I said sarcastically and glanced down at the flowers in her hand. "You didn't have to get me flowers."
"Oh I didn't get these for you," she shoved them at me and shut the door. "They were sitting outside your door when I arrived."
I placed them on the side table before heading to kitchen to put on a pot of coffee.
"I can't believe what happened while I was at the beach! Why didn't you call me?"
We sat down at the table. "I couldn't call you, Mis. They would've tapped your phones and had you watched. You would've been the first person they'd expect me to contact. How did you know about all of this anyways? It can't already be on the news."
She shook her head, "My cousin's husband works for the Trenton P.D. Your life is a hell of a lot more exciting than mine!"
I scoffed, "I could do without the added excitement."
"Alyssa, seriously, you look like hell. I wish I could stay here to take care of you but there's a meeting scheduled today that I can't get out of."
"It's ok, I'm fine. I just need sleep. I wouldn't be good company anyways."
A loud knock came from the front door. I sighed, "Who the hell could that be?"
I went back to the door and opened it to Joe. He had dark circles under his eyes and a five o'clock shadow.
"Officer, what brings you to my door? Did you not get enough information from me a few hours ago?"
"Alyssa," he sighed.
"Whatever it is, can't it wait until later this afternoon or maybe tomorrow? I'm really tired."
"So am I. I just got off my shift," he pushed his way through the door and shut it behind him.
I scoffed, "And you decided to come here instead of going home?"
"Alyssa —"
"—Officer Morelli, like I said, I'm really tired. I need some sleep and from the looks of it so do you. So, I suggest you go home and get some rest and I'll be happy to come down to the precinct tomorrow."
"Alyssa—" he interjected in a firmer tone.
I opened my mouth to cut him off again when he grabbed me and pulled me into a kiss a deep passionate, needy kiss. He pulled his lips away from mine and continued to hold my face as he laid his forehead on mine. We just stood there gazing into each other's eyes trying to search for words.
Joe released me, startled, as Misty popped out of the kitchen and cleared her throat. "Well, then. I must get going. Don't want to be late to work, you know." She leaned over and gave me a quick kiss on my good cheek.
"I'll talk to you later," she winked. "Morelli," she nodded slipping out the door.
Joe began taking his jacket off and headed towards the bedroom.
"Um, where do you think you're going?" I shouted out to him.
"Bed."
"Not my bed you're not," said crossly.
"Alyssa, we're both tired so I suggest we both go to bed as soon as possible," he appeared back in the door frame shirtless.
"Stop being stubborn for once, Alyssa. You know we're both too exhausted to fight it," he disappeared back into the bedroom.
I sighed. When it came to Joe and his reputation, I wasn't sure if sleep was actually what he had in mind — especially after our last sleep over experience. I glanced down at the flowers sitting on my table and picked up the card – We will be together soon. Forever, Benny.
I froze dropping the card back on the table. I gasped as my feet left the floor. Seconds later, I wound up in bed, on my back, shirtless with Joe on top of me. What is with these men and their magic fingers?
"W-what happened to sleep?"
He flashed me a wolfish grin. "Cupcake, don't fight it anymore," he leaned into me as he plunged his tongue into my mouth.
I closed my eyes and decided to stop fighting back. I wrapped my limbs around Morelli's perfectly toned body.
"Ok," I breathed.
The End
Ok. Ok. I know that you guys didn't like this ending but I am a true believer of one having to make several mistakes and kissing many frogs before you reach your prince. So I want to thank you all for being so wonderfully supportive of my story and I hope that you stick with me on Alyssa's next adventure which will be titled "Hair Today. Gone Tomorrow." which I'm hoping to post starting next week. I'm extremely excited about the next story. It's going to be a lot of angsty and I believe that I've learned a lot from your comments and laid out that story much better than this one.
Again thank you again for your continued support and I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday!
~Angie
