Chapter 36
Astrid
What a night .
The only way I could describe it was like the gentle bloom from Winter into Spring. Kissing Theo, properly kissing Theo, felt like the welcoming sensation of that first warm breeze after the cold, the soft rhythmic rainfall that helped plants to grow from the earth and helped the restless to finally rest. It felt like being welcomed home .
Although I felt on absolute cloud nine, and wanted nothing more than to be absorbed by his kiss for the remainder of the evening. There was still one thing that I just couldn’t shake. I’d pulled away, my face twisting into a smirk.
“I think you’ve got some explaining to do.”
His mouth turned agape, and his eyes looked worried. “What have I done?”
I immediately started laughing, “Did you seriously think that a mop would take out an intruder?”
He let out a guttural laugh as his face turned crimson, “It was all that I could find in the heat of the moment!”
Wiping the tear from my eye, I replied, “Theo, you were using a flash speedy mop , it’s not even a proper mop! It’s that bendy and flimsy, you might as well have just smacked them with a plastic straw or one of those stretchy alien toys. What were you planning on doing with it? Cleaning them to death?”
He flipped me off before grinning, “And don’t you have some explaining to do?”
I raised a playful eyebrow.
“You know, running away from the office in the middle of the morning and all that? Don’t tell me you told them I was ill again? They’re going to think I’m a sickly Victorian child at this point. I’ll never hear the end of it.”
I sport him a wink before poking my tongue out and making a run for it towards the stairs.
“Hey!” he shouted, pulling out his chair and chasing after me.
I’d made a B-line straight for the bedroom.
Besides terrible self-defence decisions, there was still the huge elephant in the room that we needed to discuss, our bodies . But as he caught up with me and rugby tackled me onto the bed, intoxicated on laughter and love, for now, for once, we didn’t actually care.