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She was in the best possible time of the month to conceive. There wasn’t a chance in hell that she wouldn’t.
He ran his hand over his hair. Zeke had picked him up at dawn as arranged, and Alex had returned to the house for his laptop and a few more changes of clothes. When he wasn’t on a mission, he liked to dabble in Internet security, tracing and hacking the secured sites he was paid to try to crack. It was a nice sideline.
He’d been working on one of the new sites when he heard Janey talking in the bedroom.
He hadn’t expected her to be talking to that damned cat. And he hadn’t expected the loneliness, the need to share that he had heard in her voice. She was telling that cat secrets that she should have been sharing with close friends. Women needed to share those things; he knew that from raising Crista. They needed a shoulder to cry on and an ear to listen.
And that was something Janey had never had.
He sat back down in front of the laptop at the kitchen table and turned his attention back to hacking into the site he had pulled up. The owners were worried that several new programs might have created some vulnerabilities. Alex hadn’t found any yet, but he’d reached the third level into the secured areas without too many problems. That wasn’t a good sign. It wasn’t the programs that were the issue so much as a lack of dedicated attention to keeping certain areas of their network blocked.
He was backing out of the programs when he heard Janey in her bedroom, teasing Fat Cat again. He wondered if that scruffy, fat-assed feline had any idea how lucky he was.
Securing the laptop and closing it up, he looked up as she rounded the corner into the kitchen and came
to a dead stop.
Light green eyes widened as a rosy flush filled her face. She was wearing an oversized T-shirt and a pair of socks. He doubted she was wearing panties, and the thought of it had his cock hardening again.
Unfortunately, they needed to talk before he took care of that.
“What are you still doing here?” She tucked several curls behind her ear as she moved past the table and glanced at the half-full coffeepot. “Coffee still fresh?”
“Coffee’s fresh. ” Alex leaned back in his chair and watched her, hiding his smile as she let her gaze lick over him. “We needed to talk, though. ”
Her gaze became shuttered as she shrugged and moved to the coffee. “What do we need to talk about?”
Janey couldn’t imagine anything from the night before that needed discussing. Repeating, maybe, but not discussing. And finding him in the kitchen this morning made her nervous, especially considering the fact he probably heard her talking to the cat. His expression was too stoic, his eyes too watchful.
“What are your plans for the day?” he asked her.
Janey shrugged. “Restaurant opens at four. We have a full reservation list. I need to type up the ad for the newspaper, call the college. ”
She’d cemented that idea in the shower. As much as she loved being home, being around her brother, she was bringing too much grief to all of them. She’d return to California and see if it wasn’t easier there.
Maybe a few years down the road, she’d manage to find someplace that reminded her of home.
“That’s not going to work, Janey. ” His voice hardened.
“Of course it is. ” She set her coffee on the table before reaching into the cabinet for the pack of sticky cinnamon rolls she kept there.
Pulling it down, she stared at the nearly empty pack before turning narrowed eyes to Alex. “You ate my rolls?”
His grin was unapologetic. “I was hungry. I worked up an appetite last night. ”
And her face flamed again. Damn him.
“And that’s one of the things we need to talk about,” he told her as she set the package on the table and pulled out a chair.
“Why dissect it?” she mumbled. “Leave me alone. ”
He leaned forward, braced his arms on the table, and stared back at her, his expression hardening now.
“The condom broke, Janey. ”
She shook her head, feeling her brain go numb. “You’re not serious. ”
He leaned back in his chair. “I’m very serious. It ripped to hell. Now we need to deal with it. ”
