Chapter 43 #2
Hope stepped closer and turned off the water. “Leave it. I’ll do it in the morning.” She kissed Angelica’s cheek before walking over and sliding a blanket on top of Eva.
Then she took Angelica’s hand and walked directly to her bedroom—their bedroom?
She wasn’t entirely sure she was ready to call it that, even though Angelica had spent just about every night there since they’d finished filming.
But again they hadn’t talked about it. It was just something that they’d done, together.
And Angelica seemed far more willing to leave her things here this time around than before filming.
“Are we living together?” Hope asked, sitting on the edge of the bed while Angelica walked into the bathroom to take her makeup off.
“Do you want to live together?” Angelica asked back.
“Don’t answer my question with a question.” Hope pulled at her tank top and threw it onto the floor in the corner where she put all her dirty laundry.
“I haven’t officially moved in with you, no.” Angelica called back, her voice echoing slightly.
Hope shimmied out of her pants and threw them toward the pile of laundry, too. Within seconds she was finally naked and had no energy to get any type of sleepwear, so she just pulled herself backward into the bed and lay flat, staring up at the ceiling.
Since they’d left filming, everything felt so much easier and smoother.
Not that it had felt like a struggle during filming—it’d just been busy.
As if every second of the day had been filled with something both of them had to do.
Where they couldn’t even breathe to entertain these types of questions or shifts in their relationship.
But now they had that time, right?
“Answer my question.” Angelica stood at the edge of the bed, her cheeks rosy and her gaze dragging down Hope’s very naked body.
“What question?” Hope furrowed her brow, trying to think back to whatever Angelica had asked her.
“Do you want to live together?” Angelica sat on the edge of the bed, still fully clothed in her loungewear, but her face bare of makeup.
“Yes,” Hope answered simply. There was no reason for her to hold back now. She’d made her stance very clear with Angelica for a while now. She wanted a relationship between the two of them, and she wanted that relationship and love to deepen over time.
Angelica nodded, hummed, and then reached over and pressed her palm against Hope’s breast, massaging gently before she shifted and came a little closer. “It’s really hard to talk to you when you’re naked like this.”
“We started talking when you were in the bathroom.” Hope pouted slightly, but she was so glad for the touch. “And I was too lazy to get up and get dressed.”
Angelica hummed again, bending down to kiss Hope’s lips. “Are you too lazy for anything else, then?”
“Probably.” Hope sighed heavily, but she reached up and tangled her fingers in Angelica’s hair to pull her down for another kiss. “That was emotionally exhausting.”
“For you.” Angelica kissed her again. “I was just fielding messages from Eva all night.”
“What?” Hope furrowed her brow in confusion. “How was she sending you messages? I have her tablet locked down.”
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way. But yes, you should work on fixing that one.” Angelica kissed her again. And then again. Then she slowed the embrace, tracing her tongue along Hope’s lips until she parted them to accept Angelica.
Despite how weary she was, her body reacted instantly.
She pulled Angelica closer, deepening the kiss as Angelica traced fingers and hands down her body, across her skin, gentle teasing there and there that never said one way or the other if this was going to continue.
Hope knew that Angelica was waiting for a sign from her on that one.
She finally broke the kiss and tugged at Angelica’s shirt to take it off. Lazy, exhausted sex sounded perfect right now. “Get undressed already.”
“Of course,” Angelica answered, pulling away after one more kiss.
She stood up and stripped down before sliding onto the bed and straddling Hope’s hips. She kissed Hope again before moving down to kiss her neck and tease her tongue along Hope’s skin.
“What… you said Eva was messaging you?”
“Mm-hmm…” Angelica hummed as she reached Hope’s nipple.
“What was she messaging?” Hope brushed Angelica’s hair out of her face as Angelica moved her way downward even more, but she didn’t say anything. “Angel…”
“She’s planning our proposal—well, my proposal to you, apparently.”
“What?” Hope pushed up on her elbows, staring down into Angelica’s baby blue eyes. “What are you talking about?”
Angelica’s lips pulled up to the side. “She was sending me screen grabs of rings and popular proposal locations and telling me all of your favorite foods and drinks.”
“God, I hope she told you that I love ramen after a long shift at work.” Hope put her head back onto the bed as she parted her legs for Angelica to move even lower.
“She did say that, yes.”
“I hope you weren’t…” Offended? That didn’t seem like the right word. Hope closed her eyes and tried to focus, but Angelica’s mouth against her inner thigh was so damn distracting. Frustrated? Put out? God, none of those words sounded right.
“I wasn’t,” Angelica murmured as she nuzzled her nose against Hope’s curls. “Just relax, Hope. Not everything is a problem, you know.”
Hope was about to retort, but Angelica’s tongue touched her clit. She arched upward slightly, and all intelligible thoughts were gone. There was nothing other than Angelica between her legs, making her feel all kinds of good. Because right now, nothing else mattered.
And yeah, Angelica was right, not everything is a problem.