My body felt like it was on fire. Sweat covered my forehead and my throat was scratchy like I'd run a marathon in the cold. Trying to roll over, I realized the reason.
Mike was laid out covering my body.
I instantly stopped my struggle to look down at his sleeping body. I could feel his chest rising and falling steadily and the thought of him still in bed with me made me smile. I was glad that we were alone and he couldn't run off to secretly meet with another woman this time.
I wasn't sure if I fully trusted Mike and something inside me told me to keep my heart guarded. On the other hand, he had saved me several times and risked his life so willingly to do so. I couldn't overlook that fact but I was his job. It was times like this that I hated being a woman. I couldn't just shut my mind off and enjoy where I was and who I was with.
"You don't ever shut that thing off, do you?" Mike said playfully and I looked down at him. He'd clearly been watching me as I analyzed our every move for the past few hours.
"I'm a girl. It doesn't just shut off in situations like this." I didn't look down at him again as I spoke because I knew he'd just play it off. I was serious and being around all of this stress was weighing on me mentally. I felt like I was going to break apart at any time.
"Dee, you really need to relax. No one knows where we are. I used a fake name to check in. You're safe, so please just shut your mind off for a while. Just be here." That make me look down at him and I forced a smile. He was right. Mike was right and I gave into him.
"Okay, I'll try." I felt Mike start to shift away from me and I locked an arm and leg around him to stop his movements. He scanned my face and stopped.
"You're sweating and I assume it's because of me. I was just trying to-" I moved my head down to stop his speaking, pressing my lips to his. I'd caught him off guard and it took him a moment to respond to me but he finally did. I could feel his excitement against my hip and that made me happy. It made me happy that I could turn him on so quickly.
A few hours and a few go's later, Mike and I were showered and ready to start the few day drive to his parents cabin. I'd been there once in high school when a bunch of us had driven there during the summer. My parents only let me go because they trusted Mike but I think if they knew that's where I'd lost my virginity to him, they wouldn't have let me go.
"You have everything?" Mike asked as he scanned the motel room. My shirt and pants that I'd laid on the bed last night were still there. Mike pointed to them and I just smiled.
"Yeah, I have everything I'm bringing. There's no way in hell I'm bringing any clothes that touched that bed." I faked a shiver and we both laughed. "Where did you get the idea to bring your own bedding anyways?" I'd wanted to ask that last night but I'd been too preoccupied with his sexiness to ask.
"I've stayed in my fair share of nasty motel rooms while on the job. The make ready bed is always in my truck so just in case I need it, it's there."
"So it's no in case you find a chick and want a quickie. You don't have to find a place to have fun because you can just pull out your bed and take her to bed." I was totally playing with him but my face and tone said differently. Mike looked at me a moment before he spoke, trying to gauge if I was actually serious.
"Daviny, I'd never do something like that. Do you not know me at all? Here I thought we were making progress and then you ask me something like that?" Mike turned from me and his shoulder slumped. That's when the giggles left my lips. Mike spun back around and I laughed full on.
"You should have seen your face. You thought I was serious?" I held my stomach and bent over, laughing harder and harder thought my words. By the time I was done with my little joke Mike had walked outside and left me in the motel room. I couldn't help but follow him outside and see him even angrier.
