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“You know, Fox,” she pauses, takes a breath, “we never got a chance to talk about that night…”
That night?
There’s only one night she could be referring to. We’ve mostly ignored it until now, but I can’t say I haven’t felt it every time I look at her.
She swallows hard. “Fox, I—”
“All right!”
I lurch slightly as the waitress appears at the booth. “One bacon cheeseburger with fries and some pancakes.” She lays the plates down in front of us, along with a container of maple syrup for Dani. “Is there anything else I can get you two?”
“No, thanks,” I answer.
Dani shakes her head with a kind smile.
“Enjoy,” the waitress says as she wanders off again.
We both take advantage of the distraction and focus on our plates instead of the heavy conversation she nearly started. Dani grabs the syrup bottle and pours a healthy amount over the small stack of carbohydrate heaven. I lay the included lettuce and tomatoes and pickles on my burger and slap the bun on top.
“I refuse to not enjoy this,” she mutters, squeezing even more from the bottle. It seeps to the edges of the plate before she finally stops and readies her fork.
I smile. It can’t be helped.
“Hey…”
She looks up at me as I slide the edge of my plate toward hers. I nudge it a bit closer until she snags a fry and crushes it between her teeth.
“Oh, my god…”Her eyelids flutter closed. “I miss fries.”
I chuckle and pull my plate back.
* * *
I decide to get some rest and continue to Denver in the morning.
I can easily manage the rest of the trip tonight but there’s something about extending it that feels so damn tempting. It’s dangerous as hell. Getting this file decrypted is priority number one. Taking Mercer’s focus off Dani is everything. And yet…
I don’t know. Maybe this is a little fun.
Dani lies on the second bed with the television remote in one hand, surfing away at the limited channels available. She’s on her elbow with her head propped up. Her feet dangle off the side, connected to perfect, smooth legs. She slipped out of her jeans and into my big shirt again the second we arrived and it’s taking everything in me not to gawk at her.
“Uh-oh…” Dani points at the television.
A national news channel flashes a photo of her, a stunning portrait of her on the red carpet.
ROXIE ROBERTS ABDUCTED.
I exhale. “Looks like Bennett is going all out with this.”
“He really hates you,” she says.
“Always has.”
She clicks away from the channel. I stand up from my own bed and walk to the window for a distraction, but there’s not much to see out here. It’s the most secluded, rundown motel I saw miles off the road. I guess it’s all my fault that there’s nothing else to look at other than Dani and her perky…
I bite down hard.
Dani lets out an exasperated moan and my ears twitch. “You’d figure there’d be something decent on. What else do people have to do around here?”
