Nick frowned. “I do?” He certainly didn’t feel uncomfortable.
“Mmm hmm, you do.” Leaning forward she instructed him, “Here, give me your leg.” She removed a shoe, “now your other leg,” and then the other. Placing the size thirteen Kenneth Coles under the table, she asked, “Is that better?” as she leaned back next to him.
Wrapping an arm around her slender shoulder, he pulled her head to his chest. “Yes, thank you, baby.”
“You’re welcome.”
When Summer pushed away from the embrace, he tightened his hold and kissed her forehead. “Stay and watch the movie with me.”
Reluctantly she submitted to his request. Lying in his arms feeling the steady rhythm of his chest rising and falling was hypnotizing. Her resistance to be near him was effortlessly dissolving the longer she stayed in his embrace.
The movie came to a scene Summer enjoyed although it was a bit on the violent side. She didn’t care though. Shoot Denzel was fine!
“You look like him?”
“Who?” Nick asked confused. “The white dude?”
“No simpleton. Denzel,” she replied rolling her eyes towards the ceiling.
Nick look at the television screen then back at Summer. “I do?”
“Mmmm… hmmm… yep…yep,” Summer purred as she watched Denzel swagger across the screen.
“Is that the only reason why you dated me?” Nick asked pretending to be offended by Summer practically drooling at the television screen.
“But why of course. How else do you think you hooked me?” Summer teased saucily.
“Woman, please. I look ten times better than that chump.”
Summer pushed away planting her hands on slender hips. “Negro, pullease! As if! And don’t be calling my man a chump! Chump!”
Within a flash he had flipped her on her back and straddled her midsection.
“Nick! What the heck are you doing?” Summer squealed.
Grinning with mischief in his eyes, he demanded, “Take it back.”
With a stubborn glint in her eyes she shook her head from side to side.
“I said take it back.”
“No! Now get off me!”
“Okay, have it your way, Miss Summer.”
Summer screamed and squirmed as Nick mercilessly tickled her. Being extremely ticklish, she tried with all her might to get him off her petite body. It was useless he was too large.
Nick covered her mouth with a large hand. “Ssh, woman, you’re going to wake up the baby.”
Nick snatched his hand away when she nipped his palm with her teeth.
“Hey, what you bite me for?”
Laughing at his mock anger, she said between laughs, “Because…now… get your… big…butt…off of me!”
Summer’s screams bounced off the walls as he resumed tickling her. Again he silenced her with a tighter grip. Summer’s small hands didn’t have strength as she attempted to pry his hand from her mouth.
“Want me to let you go?”
Summer nodded her head.
“When I let you go are you going to tell me what I want to hear?”
Again she nodded.
“Good.”
Slowly he released his hand from her mouth.
Summer said nothing as she gave him the evil eye.
“Well, Miss Jackson.”
“Let me up first. My back hurts,” she pouted.
Nick was agile as he stood pulling her to her feet with him. Backing away toward the steps, Summer taunted him. “You wish you looked as good as Denzel on your best day buster.”
Making a mad dash for the stairs was futile. With one powerful swoop of his arm, Nick had Summer around the waist carrying her.
“Whoooa!” She yelled as he dumped her on the sofa straddling and pinning her arms to her side.
Bursting into laughter again she said, “Nick, this isn’t fair!”
Nick loved that Summer was laughing. He loved even more that he was the cause of her laughter. Chuckling feigning confusion, he quipped, “What isn’t fair, Beautiful?”
“You out weigh me by more than a hundred pounds.”
His chuckle dwindled to a grin. “So.”
“Boy, what are you about to do to me?” Summer could tell he was about to be up to no good.
“You should’ve told me what I wanted to hear.”
“Okay, I’ll tell you.”
Nick shook his head. “Nope. Too late.”
Summer went completely still as he slid a hand in the waistband of her pajama bottoms. This was one time she wished she’d wore panties underneath her pajamas.
“What are you doing?”
“I just want to make you feel good.” He nibbled at her earlobe as his voice seductively dropped to barely a whisper while his hand expertly glided further inside in search of her hidden treasure.