When people look at my husband, even from a distance, the flash of knowing that they know him from SOMEWHERE is something that will never grow old for me. Nor do their attempts to narrow the "WHERE" in the word.
Adam, ever good-natured and rarely prone to actual theatrics - regardless of the person trying (and inevitably failing) to discern "WHERE" they know him from. His dark eyes, forever darker when they lock on mine, also constantly hold a warning. Which is ridiculous, in my not so humble opinion, I swear he's more sensitive about his former career - and has a compulsion to keep it from tarnishing my own - that he sucks the fun out of torturing those "well-meaning" duds that rack their brains when the truth is RIGHT THERE.
"Did you really need to -" his tone would try to sound scolding, but there was always a current of amusement - I guess that's what love could do, take something that you should be irritated about and make it cute or funny.
And I would cut him off with a smirk - since this was literally our daily lives - "Yes," since he would be intent on carrying on with the trainwreck of attempting to rein me in - especially when this part of me just truly fucking adored every single piece and part of him, except maybe a slice of one. "Yes, Adam, I did really need to -"
What I'd remind him that I'd needed to depended on the person and situation. Considering this had been - like when I mentioned that he'd "acted" under different names to the priest who would marry us and then gave his former names, smiling wickedly when he'd recognized the one that wasn't from his more mainstream work. Or the clearly overly anxious - read hot for my husband without shame, which fair, he's hot as hell - women and men who are hoping they recognize him from Starbucks or better a club that he flirted with them at, only for me to do the same offer for his former work (without mentioning the genre) and seeing the blushes creep over their skin.
Adam would prefer I just let them think that Starbucks is the cause for their nagging need to know where they've seen his handsomeness at - but it wasn't where I found out, or at least became aware of him. And why should it bother me to know that every person who has that flicker of knowledge not only know what his face looks like, but they know every inch of his body, at least visually?
You see, Adam used to work in adult entertainment, in case you didn't guess, and that's actually how I first laid eyes on him - while he was playing the dirty stepdaddy to some nymph of a stepdaughter and let's just say my entire being was stolen with one murmured chuckle as he took and gave so perfectly. And one hit of his work and I was a fan, going so far as delving into his beginnings and finding out he started in gay porn. If you think seeing the man I would eventually marry suck and fuck another guy (and be fucked by a guy) would be a turn off, then God help you for that horrible thought.
I used him as one of my muses - building characters around his looks and his actual enjoyment of sex and everything that came along with it. And one day, when my professional dreams were finally realized and then exceeded, I made the choice that changed both of our lives. I arranged to meet him to tell him how much his work had helped shape my own.
And the rest, as they say is history - although definitely tinged with me embarrassing that priest on the path to our future, but can anyone blame me?
I could feel his gaze on me, the intensity of his dark eyes roaming over every inch of me from the top of my hair and head to the tips of my toes peeking out from the strappy sandals I'd just put on, even as my own eyes were locked on the mirror of my vanity as I rechecked my makeup. I knew that he knew every stitch that I wore, since he'd watched me dress from my skin out, once he'd reminded me one more time how much he fucking adored me against the shower wall.
"Are you sure you have to go out tonight?" Laying on our bed, wearing low slung gray sweatpants, I nearly fucking caved and said I could stay, but no - I had to be strong. His voice was deliciously dark and deep and I really wanted to let him rip every single shred of fabric from my body and slide back into me, but - sighing, I nodded. "Tell me again why tonight has to be girls night?"
The lie of where I was going nearly undid me, but I forced a smile and pushed down the worry that nagged me into just fucking staying home and pushing away this feeling I had that THIS is really something we needed. "Tonight has to be girls night because -" I moved closer so he could pull me onto the bed over him, feeling both sadistic and masochistic due to my lack of self control when Adam reaches for me. "I haven't spent nearly enough time with Tara and Kelsie," I hadn't, but tonight wasn't going to change that. "And while I'd love to -" seriously not an ounce of control when he was this close, since my hips locked against his and they rocked, feeling how he was getting harder with every brush of my body against his.
It was torture to leave him, to know he'd be amped up and ready for me, but I needed this as much as I had to go out. I wanted him ready for me, yearning for me, it would make everything I had planned so much easier. To know he was pacing and thinking about all the ways he wants to take me, to know that as soon as he hears my key in the door that he'll be ready to pounce, and then -
Groaning, I let my forehead drop to his. "I need to go," it came out husky and breathy, because he wasn't playing fair as I rocked on top of him, his hands were locked on my hips and he was making sure that his growing length was hitting every spot that would make me just as fucking feral as I wanted to make him. "Wait up for me?" I was pleading with him, and it was loud and clear in how I arched against him.
"As if I could sleep without you in bed with me," he scoffed, his hands leaving my hips to frame my face. "I should dress and go with you -" my heart thudded at the idea of him catching me so soon, but he just brushed his nose across mine and let our breaths mingle. "But I should be an enlightened guy and kiss you goodbye so you can have fun with your friends."
And that, the searching and hungry kiss notwithstanding, was why I really did have to go. This absolute obsession he had with making me happy regardless of what he wanted, and while I knew that a few of my wants were clearly in his "NO" column, I also knew that I had to push past them to get what we both needed. What I knew deep down we both needed.