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“Are youdone?”I asked, putting on a faux irritated expression in his direction. “Do I need to remind you there’s abulletin mybutt,Dean?”
He stopped laughing. “I’m sorry.”
“Right… so can weplease focus?”
“Okay, okay, I am… phew, I am having a difficult time of this, Twila. And I am very sorry for it, but apparently, at the end of the day, I am just a man.” He snickered as he picked up the tweezers again.
“Well, take your manliness and work on that buckshot, would ya?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“An’ for both our sanity’s sake, can we talk about something else, please?”
“Why? Does our previous line of conversation make you uncomfortable?”
I frowned but didn’t bother looking at him. “You know it does.”
“And why is that, Twila?”
I could hear the deep flirtation in his voice and it took me a couple seconds to find mine, but once I found it, I realized it was hiding out in the darkest of caves and wouldn’t be moved no matter how hard I tried. “I don’t know—it just does, alright?”
“You know what I think?”
I breathed in real deep. “I don’t think I want to know what you think.”
“Well, I’m going to tell you, anyway.”
“How did I know that was coming?”
Another deep chuckle. “I think I make you uncomfortable in general.”
This time I did look at him when I frowned. “Now what would make you say such a silly thing?”
He shrugged. “Because we’ve got history. And history isn’t easy to ignore.”
“Our history was twenty-three years ago,” I pointed out, even though he was right—he did make me uncomfortable, but that wasn’t just owing to our history—it was mainly owing to the fact that he was just as unholy sexy as he always had been.
“So what?”
“So… that was a long time ago.”
“Well, I’m not talking about back then.”
I paused a second. “Then what are you talking about?”
“Right here and right now, Twila… and the fact that both of us are just as hot for each other as we always were but we seem to be beating around the bush.”
I breathed in real deep and sighed just as deep.
“Twila?” he asked.
“You found that bullet yet?”
He laughed. “Why are you avoiding the subject?”
“Because.”
“Becauseisn’t an answer.”
