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I hear the motor of Adam’s wheelchair coming into the kitchen as I’m wiping down the table.
“Chloe?”
I look over my shoulder. He’d gone to take care of a few work things while I put stuff away with plans to find something to watch on television together in half an hour, but now he’s two feet away with a strange look on his face.
“Why don’t you pour yourself another glass of wine and meet me in the bedroom?” he suggests.
“You wanna watch TV in there instead?” I ask. I can’t even remember the last time he suggested we find something to watch together.
“I… ordered something and I thought we could try it,” Adam says with a little smile on his face. “Shit,” he adds, “I feel like a nervous virgin.”
Frowning at the strange comment, I follow his eyes down to the box on his lap. This is the box that got delivered this morning that I was instructed not to open.
He smiles. “So, what do you think? Maybe instead of watching TV, you can pour another glass of wine and put on something sexy?”
He never suggests I have a second glass of wine. In fact, he was the one who suggested I open a bottle and he had a glass with me for a change. I stare as he opens the box and shows me the contents.
I don’t know for a few breaths what I’m looking at. It’s a tube contraption of some sort.
“It’s a vacuum device,” he explains. ”I pump it over myself until it gets me… ready. Then there’s a ring I’ll put on and … we’ve got thirty minutes or less.”
My eyes bulge.
“Oh,” I breathe.
“I… realized I wasn’t being very fair to you, Chloe. So I thought we could at least … try. When I ordered things to be delivered to the hotel yesterday, there was a catalog. And… I ordered this yesterday from there for rush delivery today.”
Try. Try?
I blink a few times and rub my lips together before I blow out a long exhale as I absorb this shocking development.
My phone rings.
Adam looks over at the dining table, which he’s closer to than I am. “Do you need to get this? DS Cavalier?”
“It’s work. It can go to voicemail,” I say, heart skipping a beat.
My mind is churning at a thousand revolutions per second. Adam wants to have sex. Adam bought a device to be able to have sex with me. In our bed. On the sheets where Derek and I–
“Cavalier. That’s the big client, isn’t it?” he asks.
Derek is phoning me. Derek is probably watching. This makes me angry. This is a very private moment he’s watching and now he’s calling?
“Chloe?” Adam prompts.
I give my head a shake. “It’s Friday night. After eight o’clock. They don’t expect me to answer. They’re probably leaving a message for Monday morning.”
It stops ringing halfway through the third ring.
“What do you think?” he asks. “About this?” He gestures to his lap.
“Well…” I say and shift uncomfortably from one foot to the other.
Adam looks hopeful. And I’m surprised. And thrown.
“Um…”
My phone starts ringing again.
