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Tyler chuckled and decided the kid was gonna be trouble when he got older.
Chapter Nineteen
DANI WAS SEEING double on her drive home from the veterinary hospital, she was so tired. They’d finally let her go a little after two, when it had slowed down. So far tonight, she’d assisted in three emergency surgeries and nearly had her arm taken off by an injured St. Bernard who hadn’t liked having his temperature taken. All in all, it wasn’t bad for the money, but she wanted to get home to her boys.
Her boys? It had a nice ring to it.
Tyler hadn’t answered the text she’d sent him, but she figured he’d probably fallen asleep. She wouldn’t blame him, as he’d already worked a full day.
When she finally reached the front door and unlocked it, she treaded quietly despite the excited barks of Bella. Shushing her, she put up with three dog noses sniffing her all over as she took in the sweetest sight in the whole word.
Tyler was lying on the couch on his back, snoring softly, and tucked against his side was Noah, his head on Tyler’s chest. As she tiptoed closer, she saw Noah’s tiny rosebud mouth was open, and there was a dark spot on Tyler’s T-shirt, no doubt where her son’s drool had puddled. The quilt from the back of the couch was draped over them, and the TV sported the bright red bubble asking if they wanted to continue watching the show.
She was loath to disturb them, especially since they seemed so content, but she didn’t want Noah to wake up and wander around without her. He could climb out of his crib and often did when he heard her puttering around in the morning, but she could usually hear him on the baby monitor before that happened. She’d been meaning to convert his crib into a toddler bed but had wanted to wait until his second birthday in December.
Reaching under him to lift him off Tyler’s chest, she felt the big man come awake with a start, his eyes flying open to catch hers.
“It’s just me,” she whispered.
A smile spread across his lips that had her heart kick up into overdrive. “We were waiting up for you.”
“I can see that.” Snuggling her son into her arms, she carried him back to his room. He didn’t even stir as she laid him down in his crib and covered him with his fleece blanket.
She walked out to find Tyler examining the wet spot on his shirt.
“I think I need to change my shirt.”
“Here.” She held out her hand to him. “Take it off, and I’ll throw it in with a load of laundry.”
He did as she asked, but the grin he shot her gave her a better understanding of the word devilish. And with him standing there, bare chested with his muscles highlighted by the light from the TV, she wanted to be bad.
Very, very bad.
“I think you’re just trying to get me out of my clothes,” he said.
“Somehow, I don’t think I’d have to try too hard.”
She walked away, his chuckle following her down the hallway to the laundry room. Once she threw in his shirt, she stripped down to her bra and panties, wanting to get out of the blood-splattered scrubs. She would love to take a shower, especially considering that blood was the least disgusting thing on her scrubs, but her stomach was already fluttering just having Tyler half naked in her kitchen. If he made a naughty suggestion about a dirty shower?
There would be no resisting him.
I’m sorry, weren’t you the one who’d suggested picking up where you two left off?
Except now she’d had a chance to think clearly, and they’d been about to hook up in the entryway before she got the phone call. Where Noah could have come out and found them. What the hell had she been thinking?
That you haven’t had sex in over three years and you’re horny as hell?
Grabbing her robe from the hook on the back of the laundry room door, she wrapped herself up in it. It was a simple red flannel her mom had gotten her for Christmas last year. Not the sexiest thing she owned, but maybe that was a good thing.
He was standing in the same spot, drinking a glass of water when she came out. The way his gaze traveled over her made her feel like she was wearing the world’s sheerest negligee instead of just her house robe.
“I needed to wash my scrubs, too.”
He set the glass of water down on the counter, his arm muscles flexing as he held onto the edge.
“So, what do we do while we wait?”
Dani had several ideas flash through her mind, but none of them were good with Noah in the house.
