Smiling at the text message that he had sent, she put her fingers to her mouth and could feel her lips were swollen from the force of their kiss. It had been so long since anyone had kissed her, let alone kissed like that. The last man that had kissed her in that way had been Tucker, and now that only brought bittersweet memories. With all the men she had dated, slept or kissed not quite stood up to what just happened in her doorway.

Giving up on pouring her wine, she placed the bottle back in the fridge. Phone in hand, she headed into her bedroom. She plugged her phone into charge as she went in to assess precisely how cold she needed this shower to be. Trying to remember the last time someone other than herself had touched her, and now her head was buzzing with the thought of Elliott's mouth, lips, tongue or hands all over her body.

Putting her hair up and turning on the water, she settled for a lukewarm shower. Jumping in and she lathered up her body with her favourite vanilla body wash. She took her time gliding it over her body with her sponge, taking extra time on her thighs and over her breasts. Rinsing it all off with her, had she let her fingers run between her smooth lips, feeling her fingers making contact with her clit, then moving lower to feel how wet she already was from their kiss.

As the water washed over her hand as she touched herself, she drew some of the moisture up and ran two fingers in slow circles over her clit, slowly increasing the pressure and speed. As she thought about the taste of his tongue in her mouth, what it felt like when he sucked on her lower lip, the noise he made when she had turned her head and deepened the kiss. She was getting closer with each circle her fingers made. The thought of his hard body pressed against her had instantly made her wonder what it would feel like for him to pin her against the wall as he fucked her had. It was not the first time she had imagined it. In the past, he thought of Elliott going down on her until she came had always been her go-to fantasy. It must have had something to do with wanting to shut up his smart mouth.

It was that that pulled her into her climax. She came hard against her fingers, taking a shuddering breath in as she started to come down from her high slowly. Washing herself and her fingers off and turning off the water, she made her way out of the shower. She grabbed the towel and drying herself off. She made her way directly to her bed and climbed in. Going to bed naked was a luxury these days, something that she savoured when she was home on her own.

Getting comfortable in bed, she picked up her phone to check that her alarm time. There were two new messages.

El: I just made it home. I can't stop thinking about our kiss. I have wanted to do that for so long.

El: What are you doing tomorrow night?

Liv: I wanted it as well. I don't have any plans tomorrow night, just lunch with Amanda.

Within a minute, there was a reply text from him.

El: I have the kids over tomorrow night for pizza and games night. Come and join us. We can talk after, and we should maybe set some boundaries for both of us for the time being.

Liv: No, have your night with your kids. They would love the time with just you.

El: Kathleen, Mo and Lizzie were the ones that pushed me to have you join us. Kathleen rang me when I was walking to my place. She asked me if I was alright as I sounded different.

Liv: What did you tell her.

El: The truth, that we kissed. So cats out of the bag, they all know by now. If they were a school, they would have the best phone tree in the country. It would have been in their group less than 5 minutes after we hung up.

Liv: Really, you told her? We haven't even talked about tonight, and you want me to come over and have them all know that we were making out in my hallway like teenagers.

El: Why wouldn't I? I don't have anything to hide. Please come tomorrow? It is not like I gave her a blow by blow. I just said that we kissed tonight.

Liv: Well, I guess that we rip the bandaid off then. If it is going to be a disaster, as well jump in headfirst and blind. What do you want me to bring.

EL: Nothing, we have it all covered.

Liv: Alright, just let me know what time you see that kiss made my top 10.

EL: Are we talking top 10 or in the top 5 of the top 10.

Liv: I will tell you when I see you next. I am in bed now and need to sleep.

El: What are you wearing.

Liv: I'm not answering that, you perv.

El: Yes, you are. I know you laughed and are smiling at it.

Liv: Good night, and I am not wearing anything.

Elliott just stared at his phone, looking at her last text smiling, the thought of her in her bed naked between her sheets. Did nothing to help ease his hardness.

El: Fuck Liv, you are going to kill me.

Rubbing his hand over himself, he took in a few deep breaths trying to let it subside. Trying to think about anything other than her breasts pressed against him in the doorway, the way she had almost moaned into his mouth when he grabbed her hair, Jesus Elliott screamed at himself to try and get a grip. Thinking of something to change his thoughts, he ran through his go-to items.

Dead bodies, Baseball statistics, What he needed to clean in the apartment, Munch in a bikini, that was the one that he needed. Rolling over, he tried to go to sleep. It took a while, but he finally fell asleep, and it was the best sleep that he had for quite a time. Olivia fell asleep soon after and didn't wake up until her alarm.