(Alex's POV)
I had finished my whiskey and set the empty glass down on the coffee table in front of me. I hated being away from Piper with a burning passion. This jet felt a lot bigger without her. I closed my eyes because I guess I needed sleep because of the delay thanks to that kid I could've strangled.
Images of Piper and this morning immediately flooded my mind.
Knowing I was going away tonight and that she couldn't come with me, I wanted Piper to myself all day yesterday, I took her out for dinner and had 'I'll miss you' sex with her afterwards and wanted her badly this morning. When we woke up she had been nuzzled up against me, my face buried in her neck and arms entangled around her. I kissed her neck and she had turned around in my arms,
"Hmm morning baby" she sleepily mumbles to me as her eyes flutter open, as a response I kissed her on the nose and said "Morning princess." and we had smiled at each other. I slid out of bed holding her hand and walked her into our ensuite throwing her into our shower not waiting for the temperature to heat up.
"Aaah Alex! It's freezing!" Piper screamed and giggled at the same time. This is and always will be one of my favourite sounds, Piper's laughter. God I was so happy I was finally married to her.
"With me being away for a week without you, trust me Pipes, you'll be glad it's freezing." I whisper slowly into her ear as I kept walking, forcing her to the back of the shower and against the wall right under the shower head. We had a large walk in rain shower in our ensuite along with a marble outlined bath. I moved my lips down to her neck and lightly sucked and grazed her with my teeth, letting my tongue lap at the marks to soothe her skin. This evoked a soft moan from my wife. While I was attached to her neck, I moved my hands to her perfectly proportioned breasts and kneaded them, pinching and twisting her nipples between my finger and thumb. This got a louder moan with the two combined. I kept getting lower as I kissed down her neck to her collar bone and down her torso. Hands still firmly and tenderly holding on to her chest. Once I was fully crouched, I looked up at Pipes who had her neck pushed out, head against the wall and eyes closed.
"Pipes, look at me." I commanded her.
She did what she was told.
"I am going to miss you so much." I tell her.
"How much?" She challenged me.
One of the many reasons I loved Piper. Finally a girl who presented me with challenges and met my own.
"Hmmm" I simply hummed sliding my hands down her torso, holding her in place by her hips and opened my mouth. I started by using the tip of my tongue to prepare her for what was about to come, no pun intended. I continued this for a while then proceeded to use the flat of my tongue, slowly sliding my right hand down her thigh and into her to compliment my tongue. My typical Pipes, growing weak at the knees and barely containing the strength to stand, I slid my left shoulder under her right leg and put it on top of me, providing her with somewhere to fall if, no, when she needed it. Her moans grew louder by the second, huh, I guess she was convincing me that shower sex was a thing.
"Come on babe, won't you miss me too?" I ask her briefly stopping, hinting that I wanted her to come for me. She took the hint and came undone.
"Yes,..... Alex...... I'm going to.... miss you too." She panted out.
"How much?" I returned her challenge.
She pulled me up and brought my face to hers to kiss me, our bodies slick with the cold water coming out of the shower. I stroked the scar on Piper's shoulder that was the remains of her bullet wound. She shuddered when I touched it. She thought it made her look less sexy in my eyes.
"Pipes," I breathed and hovered my mouth millimetres from her scar. "You know" I kissed her scar, "that I find this scar of yours" I kissed it again and held her in place against the shower wall as she tried to get me away from her scar, "undeniably sexy and I mean that. I have only ever lied to you once and I never plan to lie to you again. It reminds me everyday that I nearly lost you and yet here you are pressed against me, my tough little lovemuffin." I finish and kiss her scar again.
She giggled,
"Nuh uh, you're lovemuffin, I'm schnookums remember?"
"That's right" I grin and nod in a tone where I pretended that she had reminded me.
I went back to her lips with my own and felt her hands sliding down my body, I caught them and held them above her head,
"Nope. Today is all about me showing you just how much I'm going to miss you." I say into her mouth and prevent her from touching me anymore.
"But-" She tried.
"No buts... unless it's your cute little butt pressed against any surface and mine keeping it there." I tell her. By this point the glass wall of the shower had steamed up immeasurably and it had nothing to do with the temperature of the water, I had kept it on cold intentionally.
I was abruptly brought back to reality by Jason shaking me.
"Alex?"
"Alex?"
"Hey! Alex!"
Still caught up in my dream/memory of myself and Piper in the shower of our ensuite this morning, I smiled as my brain registered Jason's calls to wake me up as moans from Piper underneath me.
"Someone's thinking about Piper obviously." Still, my brain had replaced Jason's voice with Piper's and I continued to grin with my eyes closed,
"Hmmm I am baby, oh I'm thinking about you alright."
"That's nice to know, baby." My eyes flashed open when the 'baby' that came in response to me changed from Piper's voice to Jason's as his tone got sarcastic and mocking. I guess it was revenge for me threatening him when he was trying to get me to hang up with Pipes earlier. I was never one to get embarrassed so I simply glared at him,
"How much of me missing Piper did you eavesdrop into exactly?" I curtly say to our pilot.
"Just the grinning like a Cheshire Cat in love and the 'oooh baby, I miss you' parts." He mocks me with a smile.
"Just because you failed to get into my pants 4 months ago when we were on our way to kill my wife's attempted assassin, doesn't mean you can mock me for dreaming about and missing her." I snap and glare back.
Missing Piper brought out my inner bitch, I found it hard to take anybody's jokes or just lighten up in general unless business distracted me from her and with our love and my love for her, it needed to be a huge deal I was doing or something incredibly stressful and/or important, otherwise my mind kept flooding with Piper no matter how many times I tried to plug the holes. That woman, that incredible woman, kept making new ones for me to try to plug.
"Jesus relax Al I was just-" He started but I stopped him in his tracks. Like it was my thing and my thing only to call Piper 'Pipes', it was her thing and her thing only to call me 'Al'.
"Woah, hold on there bucko, 'Al'?!" I stared at him with wide eyes.
"What? I heard Piper call you that and I've known you for a few months now so I assumed we were friends and that it was ok to-" I stopped him again,
"I've known you for 4 months. 4. Yes we're friends Jason but Piper is my wife who I've known for 11 coming up to 12 years now who I happen to be in love with, calling me 'Al'? Leave it to Piper. My friends either call me 'Alex' or 'Vause' enemies call me 'Vause' also but with friends, it's endearing. So pick one or both I guess, but 'Al' is strictly off limits to Piper and Piper only." I instruct him.
"Okay, I'm sorry, look anyhow Alex, I just wanted to tell you we're here, we're in Nevada, Viva Las Vegas. Have a good business trip and I'll see you on Friday morning when you can resume your dreams about Piper on the way back to New York. Hopefully slightly less angry and inebriated." He tells me.
"Sorry Jason, missing Piper makes me such a drunk, well, slightly tipsy, bitch." I tell him apologetically.
"It's fine, now go do what you have to do and be back to her quicker." He smiles.
"Thanks Jason." I smile back and leave the jet with my suitcase.
Having left the airport and was in the cab on the way to Caesar's Palace Hotel, where Piper and I have stayed previously many times before and where she had won her $7 million, I checked my phone. I had a text from Piper,
"Remember to call me when you land baby. xxxx- P"
I looked at my screen lovingly and thought 'Patience Pipes. Patience, I get you're tired but there's a limit as to how fast a person can go.' Keeping the message on my screen I saw the wallpaper of my lock screen behind the message. I had changed my wallpaper to the same photo of the canvas that hangs in our living room, the black and white version of our wedding day with us kissing. My heart jolted into a faster beating rhythm.
"I love you Piper Vause." I sighed.
"What was that ma'am?" The cab driver asked.
"Oh, nothing." I laughed.
Minutes later, the cab pulled up outside the hotel which would be my home, my lonely, Piper-less home for the next week. I gave the cab driver the bills he required and wheeled my case into reception of the hotel. They knew me by name due to my multiple stays there with and without Piper.
"Good evening Mrs Vause, Presidential Suite as usual I see, we can have room service deliver your usual choice of red wine or champagne with rose petals to you and your wife whenever you're ready." The receptionist told me.
I answered sadly, depressed at how differently my night could've panned out if only Polly fucking Harper could've been less annoying and more likeable and not require my Mrs Vause to clean up her fuck ups. Polly and I were building up an acquaintance and tolerance of each other but when she pulled shit like this that forced me to be parted from Piper and vice versa, I really couldn't stand her.
"Thank you but that won't be necessary, my wife hasn't joined me this time."
"Oh, trouble in paradise?" She asked intrusively and a little too hopefully. I narrowed my eyes at her.
"No. She's tying up loose business ends." I sharply replied, noting her hopefulness that Piper and I had had an argument, I mean I'm not going to lie, Piper and I were like chalk and cheese at times when we clashed but we were also like butter and popcorn most of the time, even when we were angry with each other: melting into the other as soon as we touched.
"Oh, I'm sorry Mrs Vause, I didn't mean to pry." She nervously replies.
"Sure, look I don't mean to be rude but can I please have my room key? I've had a bad day and have a long week ahead." I ask her.
Without another word she hands me the keycard and I make my way to the suite.
I left the suitcase at the door and flopped down on my back on the king size bed that would usually also have Piper.
Bzzz bzzz
I took my cell out from my pocket and found another text from Piper. It contained multimedia content. I smirked at what that might contain but was actually embarrassed when I saw what it was. Other people didn't easily embarrass me but when it came to Piper, I was like a school girl with a crush.
"Jason sent me this, you're too cute Al. xxxx- P"
It was a video of me talking and grinning in my sleep, thinking of Piper. I was going to kill Jason when I saw him again on Friday for this. In response, I hit the FaceTime option as promised.
There was no answer. I immediately got worried.
"But, she just texted me?" I questioned the empty room. I looked at the time on the message, it was sent 30 minutes ago. I then realised she'd told me she was having a shower before bed. Showers and baths to Piper were like books to me, she loved them. Meaning she was probably still there. I decided I'd wait for her to call me back, as tired as I was, I too wanted to see if she was okay. It took everything in my power to leave her in New York after her getting shot by my dead ex boss 4 months ago.