I can’t answer, so I hide my face against his chest. A possessive hand spreads across my back and for a few seconds he just breathes like a big rumbly bear.
But then his tether must snap because he growls at Anna.
“We’re done. You take one more shot and you’re gonna eat that camera.”
The rapid-fire clicking stops.
If you can hear a person slinking backward, I think that’s what I hear.
“I’ll send you both the images,” she calls from far away. Then she groans. “Skull, I don’t have your phone number or any other contact information for you. I only have the contact for the dork who stood Katie up.”
There’s a pause and she mumbles, “Oh darn. I probably shouldn’t have said that.”
My head pops up. “What are you talking about, Anna?”
She looks like eating the camera might be the better option right now. Skull is giving that death glare again.
“Oh, nothing. I’ll just let Skull there tell you how he was the back-up date. And you can get his number. How about that?”
I look up at Skull who is working his jaw like he’s trying not to tell Anna off loudly in the middle of apublic park.
Which I find odd because he didn’t have any trouble sprawling on top of me on that picnic blanket.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, angel. Everything is perfect.”
He stands up, lifts me off the bike and sets me on my feet. “Stay here, I’ll deal with her.”
Uh.
Does that involve a shovel?
“Be nice,” I poke his ribs and he stops to look down at my finger.
A strange expression crosses his features, then he shakes his head. “Don’t move.”
“Okay. You said that twice,” I tease.
Chapter Seven
My mean streak flames to life. Anna scurries toward the picnic basket like she knows I’m about to chew her ass.
Smart woman.
“You can keep the picnic food if you want,” she says in a squeaky, high voice. “And the beer.”
I step into her path, blocking out all the sunlight. “You fucked up.”
Her throat bobs. “I um… I didn’t mean to say that.”
“Well you did, and it hurt her feelings, and now you deal with me.”
Anna gapes at me. A twitch develops in her chin.
“I’m sorry? It was an accident.” She shrugs.
Fuck. This woman is gonna make me break shit.
