The Reign Of Vause

Bubblebath

(Alex's POV)

I don't think that I'll ever not be protective of Piper. Especially after she got shot.
We held hands all the way up the stairs and down the hallway to her childhood bedroom. We only let go when I sat her on the bed and went to run her bath for her.
"Okay, you get undressed babe and I'll go run this bath for you." I told her. Usually I'd say we'd both be getting undressed but if her scar still hurt her even after 5 months then no way. I didn't give her a chance to try to entice me in with her, I didn't even look at her because with Piper, I knew my resolve was weak. Very weak. So, I headed into the ensuite, not looking back and shut the door behind me. I began to run the taps and filled it with extra lotion for her, making it extra soapy and bubbly. I knew how much my Pipes loves showers and baths, especially after that story her mom told me the morning after we got married. I chuckled at the memory as I also added bath salts for her.
Once it was full, I was cursing her wound and Kubra and Danielle and all the fucked up pricks who did that to her that I couldn't join her. Steam was rising from the bathtub full of bubbles and Piper's bath products smelled so good. They smelled so her. It looked so inviting. I closed my eyes and inhaled. The smell of my Piper enveloped me and I felt in complete zen.
I don't know if it was lucky or unlucky for me that when I reappeared, Piper was sitting at the foot of the bed in a fluffy robe, waiting to thank me. Not naked. At all. Fuck.
She held her hands out to me so I took them.
"Thank you baby. What did I ever do to deserve you?" She asks with her grateful, wide, adorable bambi eyes.
I just smiled and answered,
"I've told you before. That, is my question and it's no problem now go get in before it gets cold." I instructed, pulling her up and planting a soft kiss to her temple as she stood.
She sauntered towards the bathroom, swaying her hips. She was trying to entice me to come with her. Focus Alex. Her wound. Focus.
She then began to slowly remove her robe in a way so sexy, I could feel my eyebrow disobey me and raise in appreciation. As if she knew, she turned her head seductively with a matching seductive look on her face, dropping her voice to her sex voice and asked,
"Care to join me?"
Fuck. Fuck fuck. She knew this got me every time and my expression had betrayed me, she could see I was turned on. Alex, focus. She's hurt. You don't want to hurt her. Focus.
My feet started to move towards her.
Alex! Focus!
Still my feet kept moving towards her and my expression contorted into a smirk. Why was my body betraying me?!
Alex! Piper was shot 5 months ago and she is still hurting! You will hurt her!
The little voice in my mind screamed at me. The thought that I could hurt Piper was more than enough to stop me in my tracks and make my disobedient body do what it was told.
I stopped and sadly looked at my oh so beautiful wife.
"No not today babe. If your shoulder still hurts I don't want to hurt you." I said and began to leave the room.
"But-" She tries to start but I interrupt her.
"No buts! We have a rule on that now remember?" I called to her, not looking at her as I made my way to the door. She almost got me, if she was hurt she wasn't going to get me. Nope. No.
"But my butt will be pressed against a surface and you'd be the one keeping it there." She whined.
This got me. I stopped in my tracks and stared at the door. I wasn't looking but I could feel Piper's smirk from behind me.
Nope, she wasn't going to win. I opened the door and began to walk out.
"Alex?" She called for me. I stopped to hear what she wanted to ask me but I kept my eyes off her.
"Could you maybe bring some mulled wine up for me, you know, since it's Christmas?" She asked.
"Sure babe and you're getting an ice pack too." I said and closed the door behind me.
I quickly went to the kitchen and grabbed the ice pack and mulled wine, poured Piper a glass then grabbed another glass for myself and poured.
I looked around me. Neri was curled up on the couch with one of Piper's books in the living room and using her baby bump as a book rest and the rest of the Chapman clan along with fucking Larry and Vanessa were continuing the snowball fight. Laughing. I glared at the Blooms-to-be through the window. How dare they continue to laugh and have a great time with my in laws when they just hurt Piper, how dare they?!
"She's not worth it Alex. Neither is he." Neri said from the living room.
I looked at her with the ice pack and glasses of mulled wine in my hands and shrugged, giving one last glare in the direction through the window as I walked back towards the stairs to give Piper her wine.
"I know but I already hate him for obvious reasons and she used to bully Piper, you know Pipes had a nightmare about her last night, waking up screaming, crying and shaking because of it?" I tell then ask Neri.
Neri's eyes widened. She was strange like her husband, my brother in law but also like him, she was lovely.
"Yeah, I heard. I couldn't sleep because it's a little uncomfortable with an 8 month bun in the oven but I figured you were with her so she'd be okay." She smiled.
"I hope she is. I hate having those two here. I hate seeing her so scared." I confess.
"Yeah, I'm not their biggest fan either but I'm going to their wedding anyway since Cal's his best man. You two should come, spice the party up a bit." She suggests.
It was my turn to widen my eyes then an evil plan was starting to form in my head since Larry tried to wreck my wedding to Pipes.
"What's that evil smirk for?" Neri asked, devilishly smiling at me.
"You know, I might just take you up on that offer." I smirk and continue,
"I better get back upstairs, wife alcohol duties." I tell her and raise the glasses to her to prove my point.
She laughs, "Oh, don't let me keep you back then."
I laughed back and headed back up the stairs to Piper's room.
When I got there she was playing "White Christmas" from the stereo she had in her ensuite. I smiled, set my glass on the nightstand at my side of the bed and opened the door to give her her's.
She was waiting for me. Of course she was. But she played coy. She sweetly smiled and reached out for her wine.
"Thanks babe."
I smiled and went to give her the glass,
"No problem babe."
As soon as she took the glass, she quickly put it in her other hand and grabbed me by the wrist just as I was walking back out to the bedroom to watch a movie with my wine on the bed. I turned to look at her with a smirk and a raised eyebrow knowing exactly what she wanted. She pulled me down but didn't kiss me, instead, she whispered in my ear. Exactly like what she'd done when she pursued me in the bar I was in with Sylvie 11 years ago.
"Come, join me, the water's fine." She whispers seductively.
And exactly like I'd done 11 years ago, I closed my eyes trying to suppress the thoughts of everything I wanted to do to her in this situation. I was turned on and she knew it.
I opened my eyes with a poker face. I knew I had a good one.
"And risk hurting you? You know I can't." I tried.
"Yes you can, you're choosing not to. I'm fine, it was probably just the shock what with the temperature and force of that snowball that made it painful." She said turning her head away from me, 'accidentally' moving some bubbles away from her chest to flash me then putting them back again. She was teasing me. I swear to God. She was winning.
I looked up to the ceiling and sighed with a smile on my face. This was what she wanted, this was what I wanted. Fine.
I looked back down at her in defeat. She had a shit eating grin on her face knowing she'd won.
"You planned this didn't you?" I asked her as I pulled my top and bra off. I had to admit, the wine, the Christmas music and the bubble bath really did have quite the romantic ambiance.
"Oh yes". She said happily as she stared at my now bare chest.
Wanting to tease her a little myself, I walked out to the bedroom with the sole purpose of grabbing my wine to join her but not telling her that.
"Wait, what? Where are you going?" She whined.
I turned to smirk at her as I left the door open so she could clearly see me in the conjoined bedroom.
"Well wouldn't you like to know." I teased and sipped some wine, smirking into the glass and giving Piper a sideways glance.
Like I'd done convincing her to go to Bali with me, she raised her forefinger and beckoned me to her so I came with my wine and pulled off my pants and underwear to go join her, shutting the door behind me.
As I climbed in behind her I said,
"This will be your last victory in a while Mrs Vause."
She giggled, lay back down and placed her head on my shoulder,
"We'll see." She murmured as I wrapped my arms around her and started kissing down her neck. When I got to her scar, I paid extra attention to it. She didn't flinch like she usually does when I do this because she knew if she did, I would get out immediately. I wanted to prove to her that I didn't see this scar as a blemish at all so I started sucking on it, gently nibbling it occasionally. In a way, kissing it better.
She breathlessly gasped,
"Al,...what are you... doing?"
I smiled, loving that I still had this effect on her even after 11 years.
"Well, you don't like the mark that fucking gun gave you so maybe you'll like the mark I give you." I explain, smiling and going back to sucking on her shoulder, occasionally moving back up her neck to give it the same treatment, sucking her earlobe into my mouth and nibbling gently on it. As I did this, I moved my hands down her torso, massaging her breasts with one hand and continued my movements south with the other, but just as I was about to reach my destination, the door swung open. We both snapped our heads up at the intrusion, annoyed that we'd been interrupted. Again. First Nicky, twice, now this. Jesus, can't I ever have sex with my wife without an audience?!
"What the hell are you two doing in my, sorry, our ensuite?!" Piper asks, clearly shocked as she includes me in her question, nodding back in my direction, addressing me. I immediately leaned my naked front into her back to expose less skin to the intruders as Piper gathered bubbles to cover herself up. With the hand that was currently resting on Piper's right boob, I gleefully helped her, squeezing it in the process, hiding my smirk as I lifted my other hand and took a sip of wine. Putting the wine glass down, I took it up a notch and covered both of my wife's breasts with each hand. I was not one bit sorry for this. At all. I mean, I was just helping cover up my wife right?
The people at the door were Neri and Vanessa. One could be easily forgiven, the other not so much.
"Oh God! We're so sorry! Piper, I'm sorry, Vanessa just wanted to apologise to you, she didn't realise your wound would still hurt." Neri apologetically explains with wide eyes as she saw the sight of Piper and I enjoying a romantic bath together.
Vanessa then spoke up.
"I-I'm s-sorry Piper." She stammers feebly. I had to blink a couple of times to regain my vision since my eyes had rolled so far back into my head at this. I chipped in before Piper could respond. I seriously hated anyone interrupting my intimate time with Piper. Before, during and after prison. Especially in prison actually, back in Lolly's time machine down in laundry, when those two fucking meth-heads decided to interrupt mine and Piper's well deserved reunion with each other and try to 'charge' us $4. Plus, after almost losing her, any time with Piper was precious to me. Especially times like this where we could be alone. I also felt a strong need to protect Piper from this person after the nightmare she'd had about her last night and her history with her.
"I'm sure that was really hard for you. Though, like it stands with our clubs, could you maybe get out?" I say sarcastically and venomously in answer to Vanessa as I narrow my eyes at her.
"I um, I'm sorry yes, of course, sure." She stammers again and quickly leaves.
Neri was now left alone to awkwardly stand in the doorway.
"Sorry Neri, but could we maybe be alone please?" Piper politely asks her sister in law so we could be left to continue what we started in privacy. I raised my eyebrows and gave Neri a small smile to back up Piper's point, trying to make it less awkward for my wife's sister in law.
Neri's eyes widened even further.
"Oh of course! Sorry sis in law!" She smiles apologetically and closes the door behind her.
Piper turns to smirk up at me which made me smirk back down at her.
"Now where were we?" She asks seductively.
I wiggle my eyebrows and smile.
"I remember." I said in the same seductive voice and leaned in to deeply kiss her.