She beams up at me, eyes bright with happiness. Fuck, I love her this way, sated and ready to take on the world.

“I love you,” she whispers, and my damn heart skips a beat.

“Yeah?” She nods, her bottom teeth digging into her lower lip. “I love you too, April.”

We kiss, and it takes less than a minute for her hips to start rolling under mine, and just like every time we’ve made love, I’m ready again.

“It’s going to be one of those nights, huh?”

She answers me with a moan, and I get fifteen more minutes inside of my wife before my cell chimes with a text that tells me I’m fixing to have to leave her again.

Our shower is subdued, her joy from earlier swirling into the drain. I press my full body against hers, her back to the shower wall and kiss her senseless.

“I’m coming back. You’re acting like this is the last time you’re going to see me.”

Her tears mix with the water falling down around us. “I miss you when you’re gone.”

“And I miss you, always. We’ll chat and video call. If I can convince Legend to take a hike for an hour, I’d love to see you play with yourself on a video call. God, that may be too much, actually. I would walk across the world barefoot just to see you stick those slender fingers in that greedy pussy.”

Her cheeks turn the prettiest pink, and she tries to look away. I don’t let her. I want her as brazen as she was earlier when she pulled those silky panties to the side and showed me that pussy I can’t seem to get enough of.

“Will you do that, April? Will you touch yourself?”

“Will you?” she challenges.

I run my fingers down her stomach, but she stops them before I can get to the slice of heaven between her legs.

“Will you touch yourself?”

“On camera?” She nods. “Any fucking day of the week. I don’t jack off while I’m gone. You know that, but if you’re there participating, I’ll cover myself in cum.”

“You have the filthiest mouth.”

“And you have the best pussy, so I guess we’re even.” I turn away from her. “Now wash my back before you make me late for my meeting. I can’t get fired. I won’t ever be able to find a job with enough flexibility to stay in bed with you for days at a time, and I know how needy you get.”

She slaps my ass with a chuckle before soaping her hands and rubbing it all over my back. What was supposed to be a quick shower ended with me jetting ropes of cum on her pussy while she trembled on three of my fingers.

She perks up a little, but she watches me with sad eyes from the bed as I get dressed and head to my meeting.

Chapter 31

April

Nate didn’t leave right away yesterday evening. We got a few more hours together before we had to go to bed. All I got from him this morning was a soft kiss to my lips, a promise to be naked and ready when he calls, and a soft I love you.

I’m already missing him, and despite having plenty of things to do at work right now, I just can’t find the motivation to do any of it with urgency.

I know he has to work, but I just hate how much I depend on him for my good moods. I hate the hours I spend working that take me away from him. He hasn’t mentioned once that he wants me to quit, and I don’t imagine he ever would even though he does try to entice me to stay in bed with him on the mornings he’s there and I have to leave. If he were home and tried it today, I would’ve never gotten out from under the blankets. I would’ve curled into him and tried to get another hour of rest before his hands started roaming all over my body.

I clear my throat, hoping it will clear my head of thoughts of him, but he’s always right there on the cusp threatening to invade. I’m not even upset about it. We moved past my little freak-out that happened about Nova, and I found myself as the day went on, letting go of some of that distrust, knowing it’s not fair to blame and punish him for what someone else did to me. I’m grateful he’s the type of man willing to work with me rather than getting angry and seeing me as hopeless, someone not worth fighting for.

And he told me he loved me. I said it back, meaning every letter of it.

“Dang,” I hiss, pulling my finger to my mouth after not paying attention and burning the tip of it on the lamination machine.