currently on Fast Five. She hit the ‘play’
button and leaned back, tucking into her food. Dean came to curl
himself next to her and they watched the adrenaline filled opening
scene as they cleared their plates.
“ You
know, before you I never used to eat in front of the TV. It was
always on the dining table, which was always properly laid,” he
said.
“ Oh,
lucky table,” Meaghan joked.
Dean nudged hard
with his elbow, giving her an appreciative smile nevertheless. “Well
anyway I was saying, the whole eating food in front of the tube is a
new experience for me and I’m still trying to decide if it's
good or bad.”
“ Well,
it saves time. I mean I assume it’s not only the table that
wants to be properly laid tonight right? And we’ve been wanting
to watch this one for a while.”
Dean laughed and
laughed, “God you have the smartest fastest mouth of anyone
I’ve ever known.”
“ Er,
thanks?” Meaghan said her cheek dimpling as she grinned at him.
“ I
fall in love with you more and more every day,” Dean said
quietly serious.
“ Aaaahhh!
And there you go spoiling the mood”, Meaghan joked throwing her
hands up in the air and nearly dislodging her plate from where she’d
placed it on the coffee table.
Dean laughed again
going back to paying attention to his food and the screen. Halfway
through the movie he asked if she was up to drinking some wine but
she opted for hot chocolate instead which he went to make promptly.
“ Thank
you!” she called after him. “You’re the best
boyfriend ever.”
“ Aah,”
he returned, “there you go killing the mood.”
Meaghan cackled but
then settled back to concentrate on the movie.
There was dessert as
well in the form of chocolate chip cookies which went very well with
the hot chocolate.
“You know it’s a good thing I’m
running around all day because between you and Bain you’d turn
me into a fat lump of lard in no time with your feeding skills.”
“ If
you dropped Bain like right now, you’d only have to deal with
one person over-feeding you,” Dean shot back immediately.
“ Funny.
That’s exactly what he said about you! Great minds and all that
I guess,” she teased grinning at him.
He smiled at her,
staring at her dimple as if it contained the secrets to the universe
and then he stopped smiling but continued to stare; the look becoming
more and more intense by the moment.
“ What?”
she asked with no sound to her voice and the pulse in her throat
going a mile a minute.
“ Come
to bed,” he whispered back holding out his hand to her.
“ Okay,”
she replied taking it.
Chapter 7
Dean led Meaghan to
his bedroom, walking her as if she was a princess on her wedding day.
He placed her carefully on his bed and then picked up his remote. The
sounds of Marvin Gaye permeated every corner of the room. Dean had
excellent surround sound speakers and he knew how to use them.
“ Hmm
seduction surrender,” Meaghan said smiling.
“ We
do have C&C music factory if you would prefer it,” Dean
said smiling.
“ Huh,
I’m more of an AC/DC girl myself,” Meaghan reminded him.
“ Okay
then, how about this?” Dean clicked a few buttons on his remote
and the sounds of Bon Jovi’s ‘Bed of Roses’ swelled
through the speakers.
“ That’s
perfect,” Meaghan said her smile widening in delight. “I’ve
always wanted to make love to this song.”
Dean bowed his head.
“Your wishes are mine to make come true.”
Meaghan had
absolutely no come back to that so she stood up from the bed and
unbuttoned her jeans instead. Dean watched her; his face going slack
and his eyes darkening with desire. He didn’t move from where
he was, he just stood there and stared like he’d lost the
ability to move his limbs. Meaghan slowly unbuttoned her jeans,
pausing between each button to caress her flesh, making appreciative
noises at the feel of her own skin on her hands. She could see Dean’s
chest rising and falling faster and faster and it