by A L Miller
I dip the knife in frosting and smear it onto the vanilla cupcake until every part of it is covered and grab the rainbow sprinkles for the finishing touch. He smiles in approval before handing me another cupcake. He adds my finished one with his perfect ones that look like they came out of a magazine. Mine didn’t look anywhere near as good as his, but he didn’t seem to mind that it wasn’t perfect. An orange ball of fur rubs against my legs and lets out a purr. Sometimes I forget Danny has a cat because Felix usually takes refuge under the couch when I’m around. He doesn’t like me too much because he probably thinks Danny likes me too much, I think I’m starting to grow on him though. I frost four more cupcakes while he frosts the remaining ones. He places them inside a container and into the fridge, “Vivian is going to love them, thank you for your help. Now I can finish wrapping her gift, and don’t worry, I don’t need any help with that.”
I wash the remaining cupcake off my hands and reach for the napkins. “Good, because you don’t want to see my wrapping skills. They are way worse than my frosting skills.”
He laughs before heading to his room to grab a bag with what I’m assuming is Vivian’s gift. He pulls out a white square box, polka dot wrapping paper, a pink bow and tape. His eyes move down to the box. “Oh, the gift is already in the box. I just need to wrap it. Vivian shows up unannounced sometimes so I made sure to buy a box to put it in so she wouldn’t accidentally stumble upon it.”
I nod. “Why not just buy a gift bag and tissue paper and call it a day?”
He shakes his head. “Because then it’s over too quickly once they pull the tissues paper out and what’s the fun in that.”
He wraps the gift while sitting on the floor and I place myself behind him and wrap my arms around his waist while placing kisses to his shoulders. He leans back into me nudging the side of his face into my neck before saying, “I guess I can always finish wrapping this first thing in the morning.”
I smile into his hair, “Good because I think it’s time for you to properly thank me for helping you with those cupcakes.”
Before I know it, we are stumbling into his bedroom completely naked and falling into the mattress, getting lost in each other’s kisses and touches that eventually lead us to erupting pleasure, leaving us completely still in one another’s arms. The shower that comes afterward ends up being this sweet, intimate moment with him that I’ve never shared with anyone else before and suddenly showering with someone else isn’t such a bad thing.
I don’t plan on going back to my apartment, and he doesn’t protest when I lead him back into the bed with me. He presses his back into the front of my body as I wrap my arms around him while pressing my face into the back of his nape. His breathing slows as his body goes completely still except for the steady rise and fall of his bare chest. This was always my favorite part at the end of a long day, ending it with him in my arms. I wish I could end every day like this, and maybe someday I can.
Everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Danny was everything I could ever want. He was smart, funny, beautiful inside and out and I was falling for him more and more each day. The way he would look at me so lovingly with beaming eyes made me think the feeling was mutual. I was reminded every day of the effect Danny had on me by how my heart raced when he entered a room and how my body automatically gravitated toward his.
Two months later and I still want him as much as I did when my eyes first met his and I had a feeling I would still feel this exact way many years from now. Danny belonged to me and I belonged to him, whatever happened before no longer mattered. All that mattered was that I was the one who got to call him mine.
Acknowledgements
Thank you for taking the time to read my book. I really enjoyed writing about these two characters and giving them a story. Thank you for everyone who helped during the publishing process. I am very grateful to my awesome growing beta and Arc team. I am also very grateful for the awesome friends I met during this journey who all helped point me in all the right places when it came to starting my writing journey. I hope everyone who reads this book enjoys it as much as I enjoyed writing it and thank you all for taking a chance on a new Author.
Table of Contents
When The Clock Strikes Midnight
A Holiday Romance
A.L. Miller
When the Clock Strikes Midnight
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