She grinned then her eyes went strange and her body started visibly shaking.
Apparently my mother wasn’t into too many syllables.” “Bonus, my middle name is Kate,” she went on. He was smiling at her because he liked her laughter and it was funny they were where they were and he didn’t know her last name, but he was just glad she also found it amusing, when she quit laughing and shared, “Dare. She stared at him before she busted out laughing. “Since that’s gonna happen, sweetheart, feel at this juncture it’s not takin’ it too far to ask your last name,” he remarked. Something lit her eyes, her face, making her early-morning, makeup-less beauty awe-inspiring. “At dinner, you’re up for it, we’ll complicate things.” He said what he said but he still held her gaze and made sure she understood him. With the look on her face, Hix knew she got him.
“I catch this guy, I’m taking you to dinner.” Once he made his mug, saw hers was still mostly full, he rested the side of a hip against the counter, turned to her. She went to the stove to turn sausage links. He started chuckling, doing it dipping in to touch his mouth to hers before he let her go and went to the coffee. When he broke the kiss and lifted slightly away, he watched her slowly open her eyes and breathe, “Today, I’m totally buying you dental floss.” He stopped close to her side, dug his fingers in her hair and held her in position as he bent and took her mouth in a morning kiss that shared far more gratitude than any toothbrush was worth. “You’ll learn I’m bountiful with my generosity,” she joked. “Thanks for the present,” he said, strolling into the room.
She was standing at the sink in her robe, body facing her windows that now had the sheer shades drawn up, a coffee cup held aloft in front of her, but her head was turned, eyes to him. He grinned, did his thing, including brushing his teeth with a new toothbrush, went back out and got dressed but carried his boots with his socks stuffed into them down the stairs, dumping them at the foot and smelling sausage as he rounded the steps to head to the kitchen. He hauled himself out and went to her bathroom, flipping on the light switch and seeing poking out of her pail, with its bouquet of rolled washcloths, a toothbrush in its packaging with a blue bow stuck to it that was five times the size of what it was stuck to. THE NEXT MORNING, Hix woke up again before six, alone in Greta’s bed.
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