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“That was the weirdest work break we’ve ever taken.”
Another understatement.
“Sorry?” The whole situation felt like my fault but Leif shrugged.
“No, I’m not sure what your response should be to all this but no one needs to apologize.” His slightly dramatic sigh made me smile. “We might need to avoid the windows more, though. Except for the pups tomorrow.”
Really?
“You can just ignore all that. I promise.” He didn’t have to change his life for me. “I’m not unhappy…just a bit curious. That’s all.”
Leif huffed and I could picture the glare on his face.
“We both get to be happy and there’s nothing wrong with curiosity.” His slightly offended tone was adorable, even though I’d never tell him that. “I just don’t understand it enough to know what to say next.”
And Leif wouldn’t like that at all.
He liked that less than when I’d been doing the nude modeling for the art classes.
“I don’t know what to say next either, so my vote is to just ignore it.” He wasn’t going to let me get away with that, and I knew it even before the words had come out of my mouth.
Or before he’d snorted.
“Fine.” So ignoring it wouldn’t work, but there weren’t any other more reasonable options.
Talk about it?
Explain the weird stuff in my head?
Confess how I felt about him?
Um, no thanks.
I might be curious but I liked a lot about my life and stuff like the cuddling was a big part of it. So what if snuggling with him made me hard? An erection wouldn’t kill me and I had to get a shower eventually.
“I’m going to come up with some questions that you’re going to answer in a timely fashion.” Leif was starting to sound like he was outlining his next project.
He liked planning.
I wasn’t sure this was a good idea, but I didn’t know how to stop it.
“Then we’ll watch the pup photo shoot and I’ll work on getting a handle on what you like about it.” He made it all sound so easy. “At that point, we’ll re-evaluate our plan and map out the next steps.”
That was writer talk for and then we’ll figure shit out.
It was a bad idea but stopping it seemed completely out of my control. He wouldn’t believe lies and telling him the truth was ludicrous. My best bet was probably to delay and evade, but I wasn’t good at that either.
It’d been a miracle I’d managed to keep him away from the pups as long as I had, and that was mostly dumb luck. The fact that he was fairly easy to talk into working a bit longer worked in my favor too, but I didn’t take advantage of that often. He worked too much as it was. He needed a hobby, not for me to stress him out because I had a hobby I was hiding.
Was being a Peeping Tom a hobby?
No, I was doing research.
Yes, that was much more accurate because it was true. I was researching what being a pup would be like and trying to understand the lifestyle.
Yep, it was educational.
“Okay, since it seems like watching the models is out for today, how about we watch a movie? You didn’t have work planned anyway.” Just thinking about it seemed to relax him and I heard him try to hide a sneaky yawn. “I’m not behind on my word counts and there’s nothing due today. How does that sound?”
