‘Back to Eve for a moment. She is up your ass all the time which means she’ll be up mine if we live together. I don’t like her. In fact, after this little series of stunts she’s pulled, I can safely say I hate her. Hate. I only hate like three people. I’m not having any holiday dinners where she’s invited. I don’t want her in my home. This is a big reason not to move in together since you all seem incapable of celebrating holidays without her. I’m not Mrs Brady and she totally hit on you and not for the first time.’ She sat up, crouching and looking at him closely.
‘What does it matter? She’s not a threat to you. And we don’t have to have her at our house for holiday dinners. I expect there will be times when we’ll all have to mix. When the girls graduate, weddings, that sort of thing. Well, not our wedding of course,’ he amended quickly.
‘OK, first of all, that “not a threat” thing? She used that and I don’t like it. Not from her and not from you. The thing is, I don’t think you’d cheat on me with her. If I did, I wouldn’t be with you. I asked you a direct question. Has she hit on you?’
‘Yes. Have people hit on you? Come on, I see the way men look at you all the time. Why are you making a big deal out of it if you know I wouldn’t cheat on you? Not with her. Not with anyone.’
She took a deep breath. ‘Don’t. Don’t you dare condescend to me. I am not your intelligence-impaired ex-wife. Can you actually sit there and compare random guys asking me out to the woman you’ve had children with hitting on you? You have a history with her, a life with her. You’ve shared some of the most intimate and important life events with her. Of course that bothers me!’
Kate got off the bed and began to get dressed in short jerky movements.
‘I don’t know what to say. Katherine, I love you. I want to share my life with you. I can’t change my past. I can’t deny that Eve was important to me once. But it doesn’t matter that she throws herself at me, I’m not catching.’
‘You’re missing the point. Oh my God! Seriously, Charles, you are a smart guy, I’m laying it all out here and you’re giving me this shit?’
He got up and tried to hug her but she slapped his hands away. ‘I love you, damn it. This is ridiculous. You’re acting irrationally. You say yourself that you know I won’t cheat. I’m begging you to be with me and you’re pissed? I’m missing the point.’
‘Because you want to miss it. The point is, Charles, she’s a person who is tied to you forever. In a way I cannot be. She’s part of what’s the most important thing in the world to you – those girls. And rightfully so, they’re good kids, you’ve done a great job. But you act like I’m crazy to be bugged by the fact that she’s totally disrespectful to me by repeatedly trying to fuck you when she knows you’re with me. And yet I’m supposed to just tolerate it like it’s no big thing. Well, buster, it is a big thing. I don’t like it. I hate it as a matter of fact and what I hate even more is that you’d compare that level of disrespect to some random guy at my firm asking me out for drinks.’
Oh.
‘You’re right and I’m sorry. She’s been like this for so long I just tend to ignore it and let it be background noise. Because while, yes, she’s the mother of my children, she’s not what you are. She can play her games, but I don’t want her. I want you. Every minute of the day I want you. I wake up wanting you, I go to sleep wanting you. I used to think I was done with kids but I look at you and change my mind. Don’t freak on me here, Kate,’ he said quickly, noting her body language.
‘I’m not freaked. Not really. It’s not like our future is in doubt. We’re together and I get that. But like whoa serious, you need to deal with her. I’ve already told her off, but your daughters are in the middle so I can’t do much more without harming them too.’
‘So move in with me. That’s the best way to solve this issue.’ He backed her against the bedroom door and nuzzled her neck. She moaned softly and gasped when he found his way between her thighs. No panties and a skirt. His idea of the perfect Kate outfit.
She opened and hitched a long lean leg up at his hip and he took her invitation, angling his cock quickly and driving up and in as she came down. He thrust hard and fast, sweat building on his spine, on his forehead. Kate held on to him, open to his body, her gaze locked with his. Taking her this way was intimate, more than soft and romantic. The frenzied need she stirred inside wasn’t something he was used to, even now after he’d had her time and again. He needed her and she gave herself to him. With her eyes open, meeting him thrust for thrust. That was something of a wonder to him.
‘Make me come, Dix.’
‘My pleasure.’ He pressed her harder against the door, pinning her with his body. This changed her angle and she moaned, grinding herself on him. The swollen knot of her clit pressed against the stalk of his cock, slippery and hard. ‘Is that enough for you?’ he asked teasingly in her ear as her cunt fluttered around him.
‘It’s never enough. You could crawl into my body and stay there forever and I still couldn’t get enough. I need you.’
‘Christ, you
