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A couple of nights ago, he’d shared in s that he’d hadinto the ithin an I’d shared that I’d started e when I was buying un about a week after I moved to Denver I also shared that Ron offered to teach me how to shoot and, shortly after that, he tookI knew

I further learned about Creed that, whatever happened sixteen years ago, he was a decent guy or good at playing one

He ith me every day to Charlene’s, even over the weekend, and there were no s and bacon that he ood with the kids and especially Adaurine, kinda eird about it and before Charlene or I could wade in, Creed did, calurine

He also took therave giving Charlene the house to herself to clean and then relax It was a cool thing to do They had to be a hand full but they caht to say they all were dead to the world within seconds of their heads hitting the pillows

With all this, andclear there was a lot to this new Tucker Creed

He did dishes Put his towel on the towel rail Rinsed out beer bottles before he recycled them and not only took out the trash but asked when trash day was and hauled the bins to the curb He even went beyond the call of duty and, Saturday, took time out to mow mine and Charlene’s lawns

Truth be told, I was a little worried about this Worried Charlene would get used to the extra help and then Creed would go to Arizona and there’d be no one to fix her car or mow her lawn

If I admitted it to myself, which I didn’t, I also worried about the fact that I really liked working with hi hito do that

Ijobs alone but there was no denying it was better to work them with someone else It wasn’t the additional brainpower and firepower, it was the co you weren’t in it alone even when you were separated Itime and the only times since Creed left I didn’t feel alone had been when I orking with Ron or spending ti your day would include soral to life

Creed read all estions, we planned and orked ot done and it shifted easily froether Life fell naturally into an order that was solid, coetting it steady and abundantly and it was better since that "it" was so fking great

I liked sex once it was about what I wanted and not what so from me I lost ood shitwhich meant I had no space to concentrate on the bad shit that was always at the edge of h of hih of me We jurope, sometimes just to kiss… and hard He didn’t leaveme deep I returned the favor We’d done it on the couch in the back rooain), on the floor of the hall, in the shower and in my bed

It ild but not abandoned This was because I sensed hiuide it I didn’t explore the boundaries of this power he illing to give ain He’d demonstrated he’d do that forso I didn’t push it because I was unwilling to go there again That didn’tthe reins over to me

He took, absolutely He flipped me when he wanted the top, he adjusted us when he was ready for a new position, he tookalertness and if I gave the barest indication so else

It wasn’t gentle It wasn’t avelove because fking was fking but when you gave even a hint ofelse

And it was dangerous

I knew it but I was powerless to stop it This was not because it was Tucker Creed (or I was telling ot free I played with fire I didn’tburned It was a reminder that I was alive and it was a way to bury shit that, if it surfaced, would destroyit harder to hold hi it harder to convinceit harder to deny that the new Tucker Creed wasn’t getting to ht then, that tattoo nearly all I could see, my sleepy brain filled with all I’d experienced with hi up for the first time in my life beside him, I lost hold on all that I lost control of my ability to separate the Creed that used to be frolehold I had on me

I had my head on the pillow buthis, my eyes level to his shoulder His head was turned away fro crooked with his, the inside ofwhich was straight I hadCreed (kind of)

The sheets were over our legs and when I lifted htly and looked down, I saw they were mostly over Creed’s ass but I could see the top of it wasn’t covered None of ht the flowered "Sylvie" in the dent of his lower spine

Seeing my name inked in that vulnerable dent in his spine, a vulnerability surrounded by the power of his defined e of our place, my body moved before I told it to do so My lided down His body twitched, shifted and I put my hands to him, one between his shoulders, one at his ass and pressed down lightly