388. Chapter 388

Sweetie is the first one she uses, and it’s when Alex is crying, when Alex is sobbing, when Alex is in pure and utter agony.

Babe comes next, and it’s casual, and she can’t even remember the first time she uses it, but god, she knows she uses it when the water is rising and Alex is not, not, not going to die, because they just started this thing, and she hasn’t called her nearly enough pet names yet.

Alex positively preens whenever she uses them outside of a deeply traumatic situation.

When she calls her babe when Alex rolls up on her Ducati, Alex nearly overbalances on the bike, because god, does she swoon hard.

When she calls her sweetie in bed, and Alex blushes, and Alex screams, and Alex cums hard, hard, hard.

So she realizes that Alex likes it.

Pet names.

Small and enormous intimacies spilling from Maggie’s lips straight into Alex’s soul.

Profound intimacies, profound I love yous without the actual three words, things Alex had never liked before, never been comfortable with before.

But now?

Now, these intimacies are perfect.

So Maggie uses them. With gusto.

“Do you want me to take your clothes off, babygirl?” she asks, and Alex writhes, and Alex scratches at her back, and Alex positively melts.

“You want sugar in your coffee, sugar?” she wants to know, because sometimes on Sunday mornings, Alex likes things a little sweeter, and god, god, god, is it sweet being called Maggie’s sugar. She loves being Maggie’s sugar.

“Have a good day, angel,” she tells her on her way out the door, and Alex swoons, and ordinarily she wouldn’t have a good day, because most of it is spent down in HR filling out an abundance of paperwork for Pam, but today is a spectacular day, because she’s Maggie’s angel.

“Wanna go to go bowling tonight, darling?” Maggie asks, and Alex does want to go bowling, she really does, but first she wants to shove Maggie against the back of the door and fuck her senseless, because god, god, fuck, does Maggie make her feel amazing. Wanted. Special. Loved.

And she absolutely is.