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Stephanie POV
"Batman, I am telling you, you need to stay in that bed until the doctor's release you. If you call and threaten to fire one more guy, I will smack you. They are not allowed to do an op to bust you out of here. Obey the doctor's orders or else!"
He growls at me. He is sexy even in his pajamas. Ella said she would not have her nephew in a hospital gown. I had asserted myself and now I was the one to give his Royal Grouchiness his sponge baths every day. It was quite the hardship let me tell you.
He looks at me in challenge. "Or else, what, Stephanie?" Oh, I love how he says my name.
I get up and put the laptop I am using down and walk over to him. I put my arms on the sides of his face and lean in close, so close it must seem like I am about to fuse our mouths together in a sweet kiss that would definitely end our little argument.
"Or else, I will leave you here with my grandmother. She really wants Batman duty. You know how you say the guys love Bombshell duty?" He flops back onto the bed.
"You bitch!" He pouts. Damn he is so fucking sexy. I take pity on him and kiss him anyway, but without the added lust that I feel welling up in me. I am sure that the Tasty Pastry is making a killing on me this week.
"I am yours, Carlos, by whatever name you want to call me. Now stop pouting. Do you want to play xbox with me or I could read to you? Maybe you can tell me about the Batcave or we can do a puzzle or play cards?" He grabs my hand and kisses my wrist and sucks on the skin there. Wow. Who knew that was an erogenous zone? I stop babbling.
"Are you sure that you are ready for that, Babe?" What? I check the door. I am sure that I can make it around a couple of bases before the guys came back or the doctors invaded us again.
"Sure thing, Batman. Work with me here." I start to climb onto the bed and he chuckles.
"Babe, focus. I mean are you ready for the Batcave. I told you it is forever."
He stares into my eyes and kisses my hand again. He needs to stop doing that. I am only a woman and I will fucking devour him. I drag my eyes over his body. Mmmm. He probably tastes delicious. My shoulder angel tells me to behave, but my shoulder devil pimp slaps her and tells me that I know damned well that he does taste delicious. Oh, right. Hell yes, Batman.
I lean forward and kiss him again with my hands in his hair. We break the kiss and see that we have an audience. I count four nurses, two Rangemen, and two doctors. What am I doing? I am almost on top of the poor guy. Sheesh!
He was shot and I act like he is begging for sexual attention. These people look at me like I am some scarlet woman, but they don't know what it is like being near him and not being able to touch him all this time and then he wakes up and gives me those looks and flirts with me and kisses my hand and have they met him? I inch back into a sitting position.
"False alarm, folks. Bombshell was just trying to do first aid with Ranger. No harm, no foul. Nothing to see here."
I love Bobby so much. He is my favorite Merry Man. He looks at me and winks and Ranger growls at him. Ranger needs to chill out. He had been bugging me to wear a nurse outfit because it would cheer him up. I look at him and gesture to the nurses and mouth the word later to him and he licks his lips at me. He is so horrible! The posse leaves and Bobby and Hal go back outside the room. I sigh. I cannot believe he gets me so hot!
"Babe, will you really wear a nurse uniform for me?" He sound so hopeful. I do have an outfit that Lula claimed was a nurse uniform, but Lula bought it so you can understand my skepticism. I would have to take one for the team. I turned to Ranger.
"Yes, you big baby. I will wear the nurse uniform." He beams a smile at me and Bobby opens the door again.
"Really, guys? Keep him calm, Steph or I will ban you from the room." I give him a rude hand gesture and kiss Carlos again. Gently. I don't want Bobby to get all huffy.
"Babe, what about the Batcave?" I take his hand.
"Do you have a guy named Alfred? Is there really an underground tunnel?" He chuckles at me.
"No, Querida, but it is my home and taking you there will require a commitment from you. Are you ready for that?" I smile at him.
"You cannot scare me away, Batman. I want everything with you. Yes, I am ready. Now behave and eat your dinner. Do you want me to feed you?"
He cuts his eyes at me and pulls the tray towards him. I notice him wince and I grabbed the duffle bag and headed for the door. I tell Bobby that no one gets in for the next hour and he says that he will call my phone in an hour. I race to the bathroom to change and wow. Lula got me an old fashioned nurse costume that is mega short and lowcut. I step out of the bathroom and Carlos gasps.
"You do love me, Babe." I giggle and sit next to him and feed him his dinner. He kisses my hand after each bite and I can feel it everywhere. This man is so handsome and deadly and adorable and brave. I love him.
"I love you, too, Stephanie. Thank you for putting up with me." Silly Batman.
"Hey, you are putting up with me, too and I am yours now. You are not getting rid of me just by being grouchy, so you may as well get used to it and behave yourself." He smiles at me.
"You were great with Julie earlier, Babe." I like Julie.
"She is a cool kid, Ranger. She is only 9 years old and she is already badass. She is definitely your kid. I am also glad that her mom is willing to let her visit you this summer. Isn't that great?" He smiled at me.
"That is because of you, Babe." Nope. It is because Julie said that she wanted to see her daddy. She had the glare down and Rachel was helpless to say no to her. We exchanged phone numbers and hugged and Julie promised to be safe and to stay with her guards.
"She is great and you should be able to spend time with her, Ranger. Family is not a weakness. Love is not a weakness." He got serious and held my hand.
"Stephanie, I know that and what I used to tell you about relationships is all in the past. I am ready for us, Babe if you are." I smiled and kissed him again. I put the tray on a side table and danced over to him and straddled his thighs.
"Oh, Babe. You will have to save this outfit for when I am cleared by the doctors. I will show you just how much I love the way it fits you." I kiss him and he kisses and bites my neck. Oh, Batman! My phone rings and snaps me back to reality.
"Yo, Bob." He laughs and tells me that I have five minutes until the doctors will be back and I thank him.
"I will be right back, Ranger."
He continues to stare at me. "I like it when you call me Carlos, Babe." I grin.
"Can I call you Ricky?" He glares at me.
"No." I giggle and escape into the bathroom to change my clothes. This was really going to be good.