Not mine... just having fun

Thank you to everyone for their support and reviews while I worked on this story. I really appreciate the guidance and feedback through my first fanfic. I'm so sorry I took so long to upload my last chapter, life got crazy.

I hope you enjoy my ending.

Chapter 5

Ok so I feel like I'm having a conversation with myself. Not that unusual, especially for me. But this one is out loud and directed at someone else who is surprisingly absent from the dialog. I say something, he stares. I say something else, he uses that damn eyebrow. I ask a question, he stares. This could go on all night if he doesn't stop me.

"What?"

..

"No really, I think I had a moment of temporary insanity. I thought you just asked me to move in with you."

His eyebrow quirked up with a Ranger version of 'well duh'. Holy Shit! Ranger wants me to move in with him. Can I do that? Do I want to do that?

"Um…"

..

Ok so part of me was jumping up and down. I would love to get more serious with Ranger. I have been waiting for him for months with no action from anyone other than myself because I had decided that he was worth the wait. Living with him would make my life easier. Sharing bills, Ella, Safety, and all the Merry Men downstairs, maybe even borrowing Ranger's cars from time to time. But that's not a good reason to move in with someone. I love him. Ok, that's a good reason.

The other part of me was freaking out, the part that avoids commitment and dependence on anyone. I don't want to move in here, give up everything that I have, what little that may be, and then have him decide he's done with me. I can't go through another start-from-scratch. Would Ranger ever do that? Was I enough for him? What if he changed his mind?

I apparently was thinking too long since he left the living room and returned with food. Food is good, it helps me think.

"Thanks, I'm still thinking."

…

"Are you sure?"

Eyebrow.

"Right, you're always sure."

Smirk.

"What happened to we'll figure things out when you got back?"

Stare.

"Ok I guess this is your way of figuring things out?"

Slight nod.

"What about a relationship? What ever happened to dating? You know, the normal first step?"

Eyebrow.

"Ok good point. You and I aren't really known for normal."

Smirk.

"You have relationship issues. You avoid them."

Glare.

"Yea, I know I have them too. That's kinda my point."

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"I'm a terrible roommate. I leave messes and oversleep and I take up a lot more space than you might think."

Stare.

"Ella can't make up for all of that."

Eyebrow.

"No, really. I've been told that I'm very difficult to live with."

..

"Yea, ok. Not the best sources of information. But I just thought I should throw out a warning or something."

Smirk.

"I don't know."

"Eat."

Oh my, I actually got a word! I started eating the food he brought. I know it's probably healthy but even the act of eating comforts me despite the lack of calories, fat and sugar.

Ranger sat down next to me and began playing with my hand. He was drawing circles with his thumb across my knuckles and it was sending shivers up my arm. The good kind, not the pain induced kind. He turned my hand over and ghosted his up and over my burn to run up and down the sides of my forearm avoiding the angry red skin and blisters while paying extra attention to the sensitive uninjured skin surrounding it. It's amazing how easily this man can get me worked up.

"That's not really helping me think."

Beginnings of a Wolf grin.

"Shit Ranger. I'm trying to sit here and figure out the start of an entire relationship, apparently on my own while you sit there and play with my arm. It may seem harmless to you but it has been a very long time since I've enjoyed an orgasm with company and you're distracting me. I'm trying to think and thinking about you and your fingers is not making my decision easier. Its making me confused and I think I need to focus so.."

I didn't finish my rant. I was rambling and probably would have continued like that were it not for Ranger's lips crashing down on mine. God, this man knows how to kiss. His left hand held my right, I assume to keep me from using it while his right came up to brush my hair behind my ear and remain tangled in my mess of curls. What started out as a break from the crazy verbal diarrhea quickly became something much more. His tongue traced the seam of my lips and I quickly parted them deepening the kiss and adding fuel to the fire that was slowly spreading through my body. I was aching with need. This man was going to drive me insane.

I broke away from him to catch my breath. "Not helping."

"One problem at a time Babe." He said as his wolf grin made a full appearance.

Ok so I could delay the thinking in circles a while longer. I wanted this so badly. I've wanted this for months without being able to see him or touch him or smell him. I was staring into his eyes watching as they darkened with passion.

Within minutes I was pants-less and panting beneath Ranger on the couch. He was naked and resting between my thighs. We'd left my shirt on to avoid further injuring my arm. I think it was also to help us remember to be careful while we got carried away. Even with the shirt in his way, his hands and mouth found my breasts and had me arching my back off the leather to get more of my chest into his mouth, his hands. My right arm was resting above my head on the outside of the couch up on the arm rest. Every time I tried to move it to grab his hair or run my hands down his back Ranger would freeze and look at me. I have no idea how he knew I'd moved my hand. His eyes weren't always open and certainly not focused above my head. But each time I would go to lift it, before it was an inch off the leather, he would stop and quirk his eyebrow at me with a husky, "Babe."

"Shit." Was my response. It's hard to remember anything when there is a Cuban sex god on top of you. "I keep forgetting."

Glare.

"Ok. I'm sorry."

He smiled and continued his trip down my body kissing my stomach and inside my hip bones. He continued to kiss and lick and nip at my skin refusing to move down those last two inches to where I wanted his mouth. I was panting and gripping the arm of the couch sideways to keep my hand from moving and fisting in his hair along with my other one.

"Please."

"Babe."

"I'm not a patient person Ranger. Please."

Wolf grin.

And then I was soaring. One scrape of his teeth against my clit and I was moaning his name while warmth and pleasure spread through my entire body. Before I could relax he was buried deep inside of me and I lost all coherent thought.

….

Hours later we were sitting on the couch. I was still straddling Ranger laying against his chest and waiting for my breathing to return to normal. He was running his fingers over my spine and twisting my curls around his fingers before repeating. He smelled amazing, even all sweaty post sex.

"I like having you here. I feel better knowing you're safe and I like sharing my space with you. I want to take care of you and wake up with you in the mornings and go to bed like this every night." He said while continuing to run his fingers up and down my back.

"I want to keep my apartment, just in case."

"I won't send you away again Babe. I don't often make a mistake twice."

"I know."

"Was that a yes?"

"Yes."

Living with Ranger… this is going to be good.