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She looks back down at the chessboard, moving her queen. And then I see her mistake. Of course, I can’t let her win. If I lose, I get to do the dishes for the next week. We can’t have that.
I move my King and say. “Check mate.”
“Goddamn it!”
“Spitting the dummy?” I laugh at my own joke. It’s so absurd to use a phrase like that to depict being mad.
“Ha ha, is that the only slang you know?”
“Put another shrimp on the barbie, mate?”
“We don’t even do that in Australia, nor do we say it. Like drinking XXXX. But I do think we need to do a shoey to celebrate your win.”
I frown. “What’s a shoey, pray tell?”
She giggles. “Agree first, then I’ll tell you.”
I snort. “You obviously think I’m stupider than I look.”
“If Kylie Minogue can do it at the Brit Awards, you can.”
“Wait. Does that mean to drink out of a shoe?”
“Yes, but in Kylie’s case they were Manolo Blahniks.”
I throw my head back and laugh. “I’m not drinking out of a shoe, or a Manolo Blahnik, I can assure you.”
“You’re no fun.” She pouts. She leans over the table and plants a kiss on my lips.
“What was that for?” I ask when she pulls back.
We haven’t had sex since we got back from the country, and my balls are fucking turning blue. But I will admit, when you don’t centre everything around sex, it makes you think about all the other things that are important.
“For being so sweet.”
“I thought I was a pain in your arse, according to you.”
She wrinkles her nose. “That’s only when you’re being moody.”
“Which is most of the time?”
“Men have a cycle too, I’m sure of it.”
I laugh. “You think?”
“No. I know.”
“I guess you won’t want what I have for you tonight then?”
Her eyes light up. “What might that be, Mr. Devereaux?”
We are going to go out for dinner tonight, and I was going to give her the surprise then, but I don’t know if I can wait. Seeing her eyes light up already makes me weak at the knees.
“Well, we’ve been dating for the last few weeks, and while that has been tremendous and rewarding.” I pause as she laughs, “I think it could be time to move into the next phase of our relationship.”
“Are you trying to seduce me?”
I give her a smouldering look. “Would I have to try?”
