Playing For Keeps

Chapter 3: The Morning After

"Can someone turn the sun off?" Morgan rolled over and complained as it shone brightly into the bedroom.

"Perhaps if you weren't drinking so much last night, you wouldn't be so hungover this morning," I chuckled as I cracked one eye open.

"Have you no compassion for your mate whatsoever?" he whined.

"Oh, Morgan, you'll be fine." I rolled over to look at his face. He cupped my face and drew me towards him, placing a sweet kiss on my lips.

"Oh no, you don't, Mr., we are not lying in bed all day." I laughed.

"I'm pretty sure you would like it if you would," he joked.

"I have no reason to believe that's not true, however, let's go make some breakfast."

His face looked a little green. "I don't think I will be eating this morning, at least not food." He looked at me seductively and pulled my body up against his.

Grinning and pushing against his chest, I laughed, "Let me go, Morgan, I for one do require food." He sighed, reluctantly letting me go with a sad puppy dog look in his eyes. I ignored it as I got out of bed. "You gonna join me or stay here?"

He patted the bed beside him, "I'd much rather you come back to me so we can start this morning properly."

I raised my eyebrows and stared at him, "Not going to happen." I laughed as my stomach groaned loudly enough for him to hear, and he could not help but laugh as well.

"Alright then," he agreed sarcastically, "We'll do it your way. I'm up, at least your stomach knows what it wants."

"I know what I want," I chuckled at his behavior.

"Just not me," He said remorsefully.

"Morgan," I stopped him and placed my head on his chest. "That's not true," I whispered, as I playfully let my hand wander down his body. His eyes trailed my movements. "Will you stop me, Morgan?" I continued down boldly, watching his eyes heat as I wrapped my hands around his stiff shaft.

I looked at him, seeking permission almost, his eyes locked on mine, "I would never stop you," he gritted out as I began my work on him.

As he was nearing his release, I stilled my movement, and his eyes shot open and turned dark, staring at me, "Perhaps you should,"

"You've got to be kidding me," he started to yell out, but I had other plans. Instead, I slid down his body and kissing and sucking from his base to his tip before him taking him in my mouth as far as I could. He grabbed my hair pulling my closer as I sucked him hard instantly releasing into my mouth. I swallowed and licked him clean before he pulled me up.

"Never doubt that I want you, Morgan," before kissing him, "all of you," I whispered as I deepened the kiss.

His hand pulled my hips closer as he pulled me back to bed. His kisses left my lips and continued down my neck to my shoulder, as he was about to pull my shirt over my head. My stomach growled loudly again, causing us to halt and crack up laughing. "This is not over," he reiterated, going back to my mouth, "I will have you today, Mate." he kissed me one last time before helping me off the bed. "Though, I will need clothes before we head downstairs, unless you're okay with Mason and Ally seeing us this way."

Sighing, I walked over to the drawer where I kept an extra outfit since his other clothes never did make it to the dryer last night, and brought them to him.

He complained all the way but followed me down to the kitchen. Ally was already making something for herself. I was irritated to see her standing in my kitchen wearing barely there shorts and a sports bra, knowing the guys were there. She looked up, amused at the two of us, and said happily, “About time you love birds woke up. I hope you slept in because you were up to no good.” My face turned five shades of red, I was sure, and Morgan just hugged me from behind.

“This one,” he joked, “insisted we have some food.”

“Food sounds absolutely disgusting," came a half-dressed Mason from the couch.

Morgan growled at him, making me realize I was staring at Mason, and instantly, I looked away, feeling embarrassed. “Dude, get a shirt on,” as he turned my body possessively away from facing Mason, causing me to laugh.

“What, it's not like she hasn’t seen it before?” he joked. "I'm just the sexier version."

I could feel anger radiating from Morgan, “Excuse me, I have not! And you're not." I adamantly denied it without looking at him.

"You only say that cause he's your mate. Everyone knows I'm better looking," he boasted.

"You're identical twins," I joked. "How much difference can there be?"

"Maybe you should ask..." He never finished his statement as Mason shot him a deadly glare.

"Get a shirt," Morgan's arms tightened around me, “Now, Mason!” he yelled out, causing Ally and me to jump. We cast each other a cautious look.

“What’s the big idea, Ally can stand there like that, but I am the one who has to put clothes on just because you.” He was instantly silenced.

Before I even knew what happened, Morgan left my side and grabbed his brother and literally threw him out of my house before picking up his shirt off the coffee table and throwing it out the door. He slammed the door shut before walking back towards the kitchen. I had never seen Morgan treat his brother that way. They were usually thick as thieves.

Ally watched the scene unfold before turning to me, “I will be upstairs if you need me. Though please entertain your mate so you won’t.”She chuckled, stopping at the entrance, turned back to me, "He seems a little sexually frustrated this morning." My face reddened at her insinuation, but when I looked up to reply, she was gone.

When Morgan came back into the kitchen, I was afraid to ask him what in the world just happened. Instead, I just chose to ignore it and went to the fridge. "Would you like some eggs or just toast?"

"I still don't want anything to eat, Lexi, but I'll take coffee if you have coffee," I replied bitterly. His mood change did not make much sense. Whatever was going on with Mason really seemed to get to him.

"I'm sure Allie already started a pot," I said turning to look at turning to grab a cup from the cabinet before walking over to the coffee pot. I was about to put sugar in it before I remembered he's one of those weird ones who only like black coffee. I never understood the point of black coffee. If you wanted to drink something tasteless, why not just drink water? "Here you go," I placed the cup in front of him as he was messaging away on his phone, not even looking up. Defeated by his mood, I went back and started eggs for myself. When I finished cooking, I brought my plate over and sat next to him. Still, he was silent on his phone as I ate. I was about to leave his arrogannt butt in the kitchen when he finally turned to me.

"Since you denied my option of spending the day in bed, what would you like to do today?" he asked.

I felt insulted by that, "Sure, now you notice me," I huffed, bringing my dishes to the sink. "Everything is always about s*x to you." I bitterly shot out without thinking. "You don't say two words to me over the last half-hour," my anger was rising, "Did you only come here for that."

He interrupted my rant, silencing me with a demanding kiss. When we stopped to breathe, he whispered in my ear, "I'm sorry, Lexi. I was not trying to ignore you. I was just too wrapped up in dealing with Mason, I forgot. I did not come back to see you just for s*x. To prove it to you, we will do whatever you want today. Whatever you were going to do today before I arrived, without complaint."

I smiled and relaxed in his hold, looking up at him sweetly, "Well, considering I didn't know you were coming, none of my plans that I had for this weekend actually included you," I joked. Looking at his face, he didn't seem quite amused by that. "What I was planning on doing was simply taking a hike around the lake. Perhaps we could do that, have a nice dinner, and then see what the night holds." I suggested and waited for his reply. I knew hiking was something he did not really enjoy.

"Sure, that sounds like a plan," I smiled down at me and kissed me again.

"Would ask you if you wanted to invite Mason to go along, but since you just threw him out of the house, my guess is you want us to go solo." I laughed.

His face darkened for a moment, and I almost wanted to take a step back, "Well, we are mates, there's nothing wrong with just the two of us taking a walk around the lake, but if you miss my brother so much I can bring him back ." he stated but the sound of jealously in his voice surprised me.

I hit him in the arm, "That is not at all what I meant, and you know it," I laughed.

"Just making sure you don't prefer Mason," he replied.

"You may be identical in looks, but not in personality, Morgan. I would not trade you for Mason. I do not desire Mason." I added for his benefit.

"Keep it that way!" he stated with a smile, "I have no plan of sharing you." He kissed again, and I melted into him. Breaking the kiss, I stared into his eyes, contemplating altering the plan. "Let's just spend the day together, leave the rest of the world behind," he joked, "Maybe this time, we act more like proper mates."

"I like the sound of that," I grinned.