Chapter 17

Mac said between gasps, "I don't think we ate enough to keep that energy level up all night!"

With a chuckle he pulled the comforter up over them and suggested, "Maybe a short nap will recharge those tired Marine batteries of yours."

Her head popped up off his chest and in an affronted tone she demanded, "What do you mean 'tired Marine batteries'? Like you could do anything but just lay here at this point my mighty SEAL!"

"SEALs are Everyready my dear!" he declared with a proud laugh.

"So you're trying to tell me that your penis is possessed by a soft furry pink bunny?"

"Well at the moment it's in the possession of a lovely golden brown Marine…" he sighed as she kept stroking him.

Mac laughed at the mental image that popped into her head and even harder when he demanded, "What?!"

"Oh I was just picturing you in a fuzzy pink bunny costume is all," she said through her giggles.

It was hard to keep the affronted look on his face when the woman he loved was laughing so hard. He seldom saw this carefree side of her, but he liked it and made a vow to himself to try and bring it out more. "A pink bunny huh? I'll have to see what I can do about that!" His comment made her laugh even harder.

The next day, between lovemaking sessions, they discussed what to do about their individual residences. Since Mac's apartment was rented, that wasn't a problem and she had just planned to sell all the furniture rather than take it to London, but when AJ pressed her, she admitted there were a couple of pieces she would've liked to keep. He told her to keep whatever she wanted and to bring it all to the house.

"But your things are so nice, AJ! None of mine are up the quality of what you have here!"

"That doesn't matter Sarah, if they're important to you then we'll find a place for them here. Until then we can store anything you like in the basement. I'm sure there will be quite a few things that we'll both want to take to San Diego with us."

"I was thinking of that and my moving expenses are, of course, covered so if you don't have a huge amount we can box it up with mine and ship it all at once."

"Sarah, I can afford to move my things. There's no need to worry about the cost. I haven't had anyone or anything to spend money on, other than Francesca, in quite a while, so I have a tidy sum in the bank."

"Oh AJ, I wasn't worried about that at all! I just thought that if we shipped it all together everything would arrive at once. Other than my clothes, some books and music, I don't have much I want to take."

"I see. I'm sorry for misunderstanding. There are just so many things we haven't had the time to talk over yet. Please forgive me?"

"There's nothing at all to forgive! And don't worry, we have the rest of our lives to get to know every little detail about each other."

"Yes I guess that's true. But now we really should get busy, we have so much to do to get things organized before the wedding."

"The first thing on that list is you calling Harm to find out if he objects to the two of us using the date and plans for the wedding you two had made for us," AJ told her gently.

With a resigned sigh, she reached for his shirt once again and said she would do that if he would feed her!

To be continued….