Chapter 99

I blink at him nervously, watching as he goes and scoops the last of his pasta out of the water into a colander thing and turns the heat off on the sauce. Preoccupied and not getting the heaviness of my tone.

“You want a pink sparkly sex room? I don’t know if that will do it for me, baby.” He glances at me, completely confused. Head clearly on what he’s doing and not what I am saying. Although my topics are usually random, he probably thinks I am off on another weird tangent.

“You’re the only one thinking of sex rooms here… I was thinking of…You know? That if I’m going to move in, I would need to bring my sewing room.” My heart skips a beat as I finally verbalize what I have wanted to say for days and kept losing my nerve.

“Mmmmmm.” he is only apparently half listening and answers vaguely before he seems to frown. Arrick pauses with moving the pasta to plates and looks at me twice. Face finally registering on that extra little glance. “Moving in?” For a moment, I t