I lifted my hand up in front of my face and noticed the bandage wrapped around my middle finger for the first time.
"I guess it's fitting I almost sliced off my middle finger. It will be fun to flip everyone off when they ask me what happened," I said with a sigh. "You know what I just remembered? Liz and Jim are babysitting his little cousin for a few hours today. I was planning on going over there so she and Gavin could play while Liz and I filled out the last of our paperwork. You could come with us and we could do our first super secret spy interview."
Carter leaned up on his elbow so he could look down at me.
"Will I get to wear a secret decoder ring and make up a spy code name, like Ichybon Snagglewhip or Bonanza Challywag?"
I turned my head and looked up at him.
"Will I ever have to say those names out loud, in front of people we know?" I asked.
"Only if our cover is blown."
He laid his head back down on the pillow behind me and within seconds, I could feel his hard penis up against my ass.
"Really? Talking about Bonanza Challywag excites you?" I asked with a laugh, trying not to grimace when the action made my stomach churn.
His hand, that rested on my stomach, snuck under my tank top and slid up the front of my body until it came in contact with my bare breast.
"Anything I say, do or think about with you excites me," he said softly as his palm feathered over my nipple. I pushed my hips back and rubbed my ass up against his length while he kneaded my breast and pressed a kiss to the side of my neck. His head jerked away from me abruptly and his hand stopped its exploration of my flesh.
"You're going to throw up, aren't you?" he asked as I squeezed my eyes shut and thought about rainbows and kittens and other things that didn't make me want to puke.
It didn't work. Rainbows made me think of, "Taste the rainbow," which made me think of Skittles and the half-pound bag I ate last night before bed. Kittens made me think of fleas and litter boxes with little poops that looked like tootsie rolls covered in rocks and…
I bolted out of bed and raced to the bathroom, barely making it in time before I emptied the contents of my stomach—which coincidentally looked a bit like a rainbow.
"It's okay, my penis is not offended in the least that it just made you throw up," Carter yelled from the bedroom.
***
Carter got Gavin up, dressed and fed him breakfast while I took a shower and tried to feel human. As much as I hated to do it, puking actually helped. I exorcised the demons.
When I got out of the shower, I realized I didn't have any clothes...well, aside from the tank top I wore to bed and underwear. Where the hell did my clothes go?
I went through Carter’s closet and found one of his shirts and threw it on then dug through his underwear drawer for a pair of boxers. Instead, buried way in the back, I found a teeny, tiny pair of red banana-hammock briefs.
The revenge gods were smiling down on me today, my friends.
I shimmied into them and made my way out to the kitchen where Carter was cleaning up breakfast and Gavin was giving him a run for his money.
"Mommy always lets me have candy right after breakfast."
I stood just outside of the doorway so I could see them but they couldn't see me. Gavin was seated at the kitchen table and Carter had his back to him, loading things in the dishwasher.
"Right, candy after breakfast. And I'm Santa Claus," Carter muttered quietly.
"You're Santa Claus?!!" Gavin asked excitedly, standing up on his chair.
Carter whipped around to face him with a panicked look on his face.
"What? No. Well, technically... Wait, no. No, no, no. I am not Santa Claus. That was just a figure of speech," he explained.
"What's a finger of peach?"
"Shit!" Carter muttered.
Gavin pointed at him.
"Awwwwww, you said shit," he accused, making sure to whisper the bad word.
"So did you," Carter argued. "Don't tell your mother."
"Don't tell me what?" I asked, walking through the doorway with a smile.
Carter sighed. "You heard that didn't you?"
I walked up to Gavin and scooped him off of the chair and into my arms for a hug.
"I have no idea what you're talking about," I told him as I kissed both of Gavin's cheeks.
"How did you sleep last night, little man?"
He squeezed me as hard as he could until I had to pry his arms from around my neck so I could breathe.
"I slept good. But you crawled into my bed wif me last night and told me never to talk to kings with smiley faces," he told me.
Carter laughed while I groaned.
I gave Gavin one last squeeze and then set him down on his feet.
"Run into your room and find your shoes, okay? We're going to see Aunt Liz and Uncle Jim in a little bit."
He let out a cheer of excitement and ran out of the room.
I walked over to Carter and leaned my body into his while he lounged against the kitchen counter.
"You look good wearing my shirt," he said as he wrapped his arms around me.
I kissed his chin and looked up at him.