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“Maybe. You want me to take pictures?” Robin asked, looking into Leslie’s face, and gazing at her outstretched limbs. “I kind of like you this way.”
“Really?” Leslie replied. “But I can’t touch you this way.”
“That’s true,” Robin agreed. She slowly pulled herself from the brunette’s side and began to untie the four haphazard knots. “You liked it, didn’t you? Admit it.”
“I liked being with you again.”
“No, you liked the bondage,” Robin insisted.
“Yes, I liked the bondage, but I might have liked it even more if I’d been doing it to you.”
“Hum. Well, maybe we’ll get to that.”
“I bet sooner than you think, if I know you,” Leslie smiled.
Robin grinned, as the last knot came loose. Then she collapsed against Leslie’s familiar body and stoked her flushed skin, as if it had been days not years since they’d been in bed together. “So I guess those unwritten rules are broken now.”
“About you and me?”
“What do you think I mean?” Robin slapped her lover’s thigh.
“But there are a few matters to be resolved before we start over,” Leslie said.
“Like what?”
“Like Rosalie.”
“She’s easy, send her packing.”
Robin’s cold dismissal of Leslie’s lover was almost chilling.
“And the case,” Leslie added.
“You mean Jane?”
“I mean this case. I’m not going to get involved with you until we solve this thing.”
“What in heaven’s name does that have to do with anything? You’re already involved with me. Since when has work come between what we want as lovers?”
“I just want to put some space between this particular case and my sex life. I don’t want to be having sex with you just because I got a little horny while I was working.”
“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard,” Robin said.
“It probably is, but it’s what I want. I like things settled. You should know that.”
She did. Robin remembered other times when Leslie had a problem responding sexually while they were in the midst of a sticky case—though there had never been an investigation quite like this one… nothing as sexually stimulating, nothing apt to provoke their sexual response in such a dramatic way.
“Okay, okay…” Robin sighed, “I can live with that. We’ll hold off until things are settled. Although by the feel of it, that might just be tomorrow.”
“Yeah, well,” Leslie sounded doubtful… “But there is one more thing.”
Robin didn’t say anything. With her head resting on Leslie’s soft chest, she could feel her breath and hear her beating heart. There was a steadiness about Leslie she loved, but she knew that this steady person had her limits and the murder investigation had taken her partner right to the edge. “It’s Jane, isn’t it?” she finally said.
There was some hesitation, then Leslie saying, “Yeah, kind of. I don’t know what it is about that woman. But as long as she’s not the killer – you never know she just might be – I’ve got to find out what it is I want from her.”
“I think that’s pretty obvious. I know what I want from her,” Robin said.
“We’ll see. I’ve told you before, women like Jane don’t really excite me.”
