MHOS Part 22: Making an impression (Day 5)

We leave the sex club unsettled.. The sex was fantastic, the realizations weren't. We get in the car and drive back to my place. Husk notices I'm not taking him back to Obsession so he can walk home and says "Every 4 days!" & I say "I don't care.. not today. Not right now."

He tries to argue "But what about?" I cut him off "I just ordered new furniture and had it professionally installed, if anyone asks we ran into each other at the sex club and I took you home to break it in. We've already been seen together and Alastor is always watching. We screwed around with other people there and left together, it makes sense. Let's have tonight please.. Then I will see you in 4 days." He stops protesting and we continue to drive to my place in silence.

As we do a flash of Husk and I laying on a torn up table in a dark private room plays through my head. "Fucking Alastor" I say as tears well up in my eyes. Husk puts his hand on my thigh and says "He probably only sped up the process of something that was going to happen naturally anyway." I blink away the tears refusing to let that man make me cry & I changed the topic. "We're here, we just left a sex club, when we get out of the car, kiss me like you need me. Once we get inside we'll close the curtains for privacy" Husk smiles and says, "That won't be hard to do" as he steps out of the privacy of the car.

I get out of the car slam the door and Husk comes around the car grabbing me by the waist and pulling my legs up around his waist. He grabs my thighs to steady me as I wrap my legs around him searching for my keys with one hand holding on to his neck with the other. He presses me against the front door as I fumble to get the keys in the door and when we get inside we close the living room and kitchen curtains and we have privacy again.

Husk goes into the kitchen and makes a couple of side cars and returns to me sitting on the couch. Husk asks "How do you know he's always watching?"

"He asked me about our deal. We joked about it, he admired the wordplay then he threatened me a second time over the deal. If you didn't tell him we made a deal, then he saw it or heard about it.. and the start and end of the deal both happened privately.. In the privacy of my car on an empty road.. or at the shoreline behind your cottage." I took a sip of my side car and put it on the table. I grabbed Husks drink and put it next to mine and pulled him under my arm as I laid down in the couch with him stroking his hair.

"Do you really think he just sped up a natural process or do you think he intentionally influenced us into having feelings for each other to hold it over us?" I ask after a few more moments of silence. Husk replies "I never know with him. He could have decided the moment he saw you in Cannibaltown." I looked at Husk a little shocked. "Cannibaltown? I never told you I saw him there."

Husk nods and explains "He did. He was in the middle of a meeting with Rosie when she saw you and cut the meeting short to talk to you. Someone he didn't recognize. He was not impressed that she ended their meeting early. He told me about it when he came back to the tavern.

When he described you I never expected you to walk into Alastor's tavern the very same day.. and I really never expected you to come home with me on your.. First?" He asks. "Second" I reply "Second day in hell. On the very same day you interrupted his meeting with Rosie."

"I was a stranger who interrupted his meeting, hunting 4 people in his territory, leaving dead bodies around his place of business.. and took home his friend and bartender all in one day. That would make an impression."

Husk adds "And now you already own your first soul. So that actually makes you pretty powerful for a newcomer. Wow.. 4 days?!? 2 houses? a car? 2 deals, a soul & a fully renovated room. All by yourself. That is something to be admired." We settle into the silence, lay there and fall asleep as I stroke his hair.

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I wake in the morning to Husk stretching and yawning and wrapping his arms around my waist to hold me for a few more minutes. I lift his chin to look me in the face and say "good morning" and kiss him on the nose. I hug his head and we continue to ignore the outside world until the bathroom beckons.. and coffee. I toss some frozen breakfast cubes into a frying pan and bring Husk upstairs to see the newly renovated room and when he lays his eyes on it he laughs a whole and hearty laugh.. "It's a sex room." he says. "You had me empty the old sex room so professionals could build you a new one." his laughter is contagious, I start laughing along too.. as we settle down I give him a tour of the room. Storage in the bed frame, lighting across the ceiling, the ties on the 4 poster bed. He asks if we have time and I kiss him until he tries to pull me toward the bed and I stop him and say, "Breakfast is frying."

Husk growls playfully in my ear and follows me back down to the kitchen. I stir up the food to make sure it's warmed all the way through and grab plates for each of us and we sit down and eat. As we sit down and eat I start humming a Donna Summers tune while I play with my breakfast and Husk says breathlessly "You need.. to stop.. singing.." I stop and ask "Why?"

Husks eyes shoot up, purple fading from them as he looks at me and he says "Are you serious?" I wait silently watching him breath into the table as he cools down. "A sirens song? Driving men mad with passion? Dragging them to their watery grave?" he says "I'm grateful you don't do it at the lake!" Well damn.. I think I need to read my own lore book..