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Man, I felt good this morning!<\/p>\nI woke quite late the next morning, feeling refreshed and relaxed. I’d decided I was just going to spend the day puttering about the house; maybe go for a nice walk if the weather’s good.<\/p>\n
Man, I felt good this morning!<\/p>\n
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I got dressed, thinking I’d head out\u00a0 somewhere, when I got a phone call.<\/p>\n
Aiden!\u00a0 Spa day!\u00a0 Other words that were said but I really can’t recall anything other than that, and “Yes!”.<\/p>\n He greeted me warmly when I arrived. Hrm. He smelled nice.<\/p>\n “Ready for a relaxing day?” he asked.<\/p>\n “Absolutely!” I said. “I love this place. It … feels like home sometimes.”<\/p>\n I’m sure I’ll tell him about that.\u00a0 Someday.<\/p>\n I offered to return the favour.<\/p>\n It would have been irresponsible of me to enact a sudden shortage of towels, so I kept my hands above his armpits.<\/p>\n For now.<\/p>\n We followed the sauna up with a quick dip in the pool.<\/p>\n He let me know he’d also booked a\u00a0real<\/em> massage for me. Cute and sweet. I’m certain I’m in love.<\/p>\n Everyone was in a really great mood. A large tea fountain provided us with a rather warming drink. I’m not certain there wasn’t alcohol in it, but it induced a certain amorous intoxication that I could get used to.<\/p>\n Actually… it tasked a little of roses.\u00a0 Like … like the Rose Serum we make at the lab!\u00a0 Part of me wondered if I should investigate a leak, or report a theft, but the other part of me was feeling amazing and told that first part to shut the hell up and jump Aiden’s skinny bones.<\/p>\n “Of course you do, you’re wonderful,” the beer told me.<\/p>\n “And sexy,” added the love tea.<\/p>\n Aiden couldn’t come up with a convincing argument either.\u00a0 When I suggested that we head over to my house for the remainder of the evening, he agreed without his usual hesitation.\u00a0 I think the tea made his voice an octave lower.\u00a0 And huskier.<\/p>\n chapter 32 …<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let’s Get It On I woke quite late the next morning, feeling refreshed and relaxed. I’d decided I was just going to spend the day puttering about the house; maybe go for a nice walk if the weather’s good. Man, I felt good this morning! I got dressed, thinking I’d head out\u00a0 somewhere, when I … Continue reading “Jeanette, Chapter 31”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[33,42,41],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ross","category-jeanette","tag-aiden","tag-romance-festival","tag-spa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnefatafl.darncats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/darncats.ca\/images\/clanross\/1-31\/01.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n Ooooh dear, this felt so good.\u00a0 While I get me some of that hot pore-cleansing, Aiden offered to help take some tension off my shoulders.<\/p>\nI wasn’t going to tell him that I didn’t have any. Just keep with the hands on me.\u00a0 More hands on skin, Aiden!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\nAlthough I’ll have to work on that too. Who wears a tank top into the swimming pool?\u00a0 Jeez, guy.\u00a0 Well, perhaps he’s as shy as I thought he was.<\/p>\n Tank top or no, he’s just too damn cute.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nJimmy here – or Jumpy or whatever –\u00a0 welcomed me in and asked me to lay on the table.<\/p>\nOooohh.\u00a0 I warned him that I thought I was pretty relaxed already, but figured it couldn’t hurt.<\/p>\nAugh! Maybe I wasn’t as relaxed as I thought; Jamie found a few places that needed some kneading. He wasn’t exactly gentle, but I could feel my back loosening further with every …<\/p>\n<\/a>Urk!<\/p>\n<\/a>As we were leaving the spa, I took Aiden’s arm and asked him what the next stop on our relaxing day would be. He let me know that the “Romance Festival” was in town, and he’d booked us a pair of tickets.\u00a0 We arrived at the market and was instantly showered with rose petals.\u00a0 I think Aiden might be allergic.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n And the rose petals are just so damned pretty.<\/p>\nOf course, nothing goes together with a rose love potion than a few pints.<\/p>\nI finally had the nerve to ask my glass if I had the nerve.<\/p>\nRight! Well who am I to argue with talking intoxicants?<\/p>\n<\/p>\nBack at my place, we sat and talked for nearly two hours. We shared and debated hopes and dreams, neighbourhood tax rates, llama breeding, everything.<\/p>\nWe learned an awful lot more about each other. Specifically, we both really wanted …<\/p>\n… to do more of this.<\/p>\nA\u00a0lot<\/em> more. It coulda been the Marvin Gaye, it coulda been the tea, but it was Aiden who’d suggested a move to the bedroom, and I could not get there fast enough.<\/p>\nBut I took my time, gesturing him to lead the way.<\/p>\nHe did.\u00a0 I’ll leave it there.\u00a0 You understand.<\/p>\n