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I do as he says, and I let him pull me back until my back is flat against his. It feels good to lean on someone. It feels especially good that Cooper is that someone.
His hand holding the loofah cleans my breasts and my stomach and my lower belly.
I feel him everywhere. Behind me, over me, his hands washing my front, his lips at my shoulder, his other arm locked around me, bracing me against him.
I feel so comfortable that I let it all out.
He reaches down and scrubs my lower belly, then lower, and lower still.
“No one’s ever been this…into it with me,” I say.
“Into what?” Cooper says.
“It. Sex. With me.”
“You’ve had sex before.”
“Yeah, but with you it feels so different. That’s why I cried.”
A long pause hangs there while Cooper washes and rinses between my legs.
“Different…in a good way?” Cooper asks.
Sweet, clueless Cooper.
“Yes, in a good way.” He’s pushing me to say things I don’t want to admit.
“It’s never. No one has ever…had this much sustained interest in me before. Sex has always been wham, bam, thank you ma’am. It’s been something we get out of the way because we have our needs. But that’s not you,” I say. “And that’s why I cried.”
Cooper says nothing for a long moment, but continues to clean me.
The Harmony of six weeks ago would feel uncomfortably vulnerable right now. She might feel like she was being treated like a toy or a child.
But nothing could be further from the truth when I’m around Cooper.
He sweeps the sudsy loofah over my middle and kisses my damp shoulder.
“If it seems like I’m into you, it’s because I am. I’ve been obsessed with you since the moment I met you. I’ve never hid that fact.”
“I don’t know what to do with all this attention. Hell, I don’t know what to do with a friend who’s now a friend with benefits. So you’ll have to forgive me if I stumble. This is all new to me.”
“Fuck that.”
I look at him over my shoulder. “Excuse me?”
“Fuck friends with benefits. Harmony, do you not get it? I moved into this house to be closer to you.”
I swallow the lump in my throat, but it aches. More tears are coming.
“I thought you were looking for an investment, and annoying me by being my neighbor was just a bonus.”
He laughs.
“Let’s make it perfectly clear then. We’re not friends with benefits. We’re not messing around here. I love you, Harmony. I loved you from the first time you threatened to karate chop me at the expo.”
I laugh. “Did I say that?”
Cooper’s chest hair bristles against my back, warm and familiar to me as a husband.
