The kitchen was sweltering and she swiped away the wisps of hair stuck to her forehead. It might be madness inside the kitchen, but at least it was her controlled chaos. The entire family had converged on her house for a pre-Christmas dinner that had somehow lasted three days so far.
She had kicked them all out of the house at ten this morning. She loved her family, really, but she didn't want them in her hair any longer. She couldn't get anything done. Chores kept piling up while she entertained three generations of the bloodline; nights she would have worked late she had ended up at home on time since she had company.
And goddamn, but she was horny. She hadn't seen him in over a month between his training somewhere in bum fuck Egypt and her own company trip up to DC last week. He had called Thursday evening to let her know he was back, but that was the same night the family congregated -- a day early, promising to stay through Monday, wasn't it great that everyone got the time off work?!?! -- and he had said he didn't want to intrude. She was supposed to call him once the hungry hordes headed back to their respective homes.
Thank God it was Sunday and they were all clearing out tomorrow.
She checked the Tuscan chicken simmering on the stove and replaced the lid before going back to the sauces she was stirring. The chocolate was fragrant as it melted and the sweet crème anglais was setting nicely. Dinner should go perfectly, then everyone would settle in to watch TV for the night, go to bed early and be out the door at sunrise for their drives home. Perfect. She was whisking the chocolate down when her cell phone jingled. She grabbed the phone off the counter and stuck it between her shoulder and ear.
"Hello?"
"Hey, beautiful."
She smiled. "Hey yourself, handsome. What's up?"
"Just calling to say hi."
"Well, then, hello."
"How's it going?"
She sighed. "Going. They leave tomorrow. And I love 'em, but God, I want them out of my house."
"Are they all still there?"
"No, I shoved them out the door this morning and told them not to come back till dinner time."
"Really?" He got that tone in his voice that always made her all shivery and warm inside. "And what time is dinner?"
She leaned against the counter and continued to stir the chocolate. "Not till six."
"Hmm, and it's only five now. That's a whole hour that you're all alone. What are you doing?"
"Cooking dinner and thinking of you."
"That's good to hear. What are you thinking about?"
She smiled. "All this chocolate sauce I'm making that would taste wonderful as I sucked it off your cock."
"Mmmmm, jumped right into that one, didn't you."
"Yep. What about you?"
"Well, funny you should ask..."
He paused and she frowned into the phone. "Why is it funny that I should ask?"
The back door opened behind her and she spun around to see who she had to yell at to go away for the next sixty minutes. But she didn't have to yell after all.
He walked in along with a burst of cold, clear wind. Damn, she thought, he looked good. And she realized that she had missed him while they were apart. Or maybe she was just really horny.
They snapped their cell phones closed at the same time. She stayed at the counter, slowly stirring her chocolate, and asked, "How'd you know they were gone?"
He grinned. "You know better than to ask such a silly question."
Yeah, he had a point. The man was always right he knew damn near everything.
"You mentioned chocolate?" He nodded toward the stove.
"Why yes, I did." She smiled, knowing the next hour was about to fly by.
He placed his phone on the kitchen table and took off his coat, hanging it over a chair. She boosted herself onto the counter and turned down the heat under the chocolate. He stepped into the space between her knees and she wrapped her legs around his waist, her arms curling around his warm shoulders and into his cold hair.
"Welcome home," she whispered before diving into the kiss.
He pulled her head back by the hair and stabbed into her mouth with his tongue. Their hands simultaneously went to each other's shirts, undoing buttons with all haste. His fingers were cold as they dipped into her bra and her nipples pebbled at his touch.