His hands wrapped comfortably around her waist as she stretched herself atop him, and he met her smile with a wide grin of his own as his fingers wandered up and down her back, tracing random patterns across the fabric of her top. “Yeah, I have that effect on people. Part of the job, you know,” Allan murmured in reply, his smile audible in his soft voice. In return for the light peck of her lips, he pressed a brief kiss to the tip of her nose and let out a short giggle. It felt pleasant, comforting even, the weight of her atop him. It didn’t feel sexual or anything else that their relationship had so far been based on. There was something else, hovering just beyond the peripheral of his mind, and it caused an odd, full feeling in his chest. Allan wasn’t familiar with it. But so long as she made him happy - and he was certain that he did - he wasn’t about to try and get rid of that feeling.
“Well, it’s just cheaper to make it yourself, you know. And why shouldn’t I get drink for less money? They don’t let us accept drinks from clients at the club, you know. I have to take shortcuts where I can,” Allan explained, his tone half-teasing. His eyes wandered briefly from her face and he spied the luminous dial of the clock on his side table: he started at the late hour.
“Bloody hell, is that the time?!” he said with surprise, his eyebrows raised. “Are you... well, do you reckon you’ll stay the night? I have to be at work by lunchtime tomorrow, mind - some of the boys want to rehearse the new group routine, and they’ll kill me if I miss it,” he told her, starting to sit up and moving her gently off his body as he did so.