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“I can make them too now.”
“I have no doubt.” He kissed my jaw almost absently and a low rumble sounded between us. “Did you just growl at me, Boomer?” Lightly, he tugged on his dog’s ear. “She’s my woman. Get your own.”
Those warning bells were back clanging in my head. Except this time they came with airhorns and possibly torrential rain.
Oh, no, that part was actually outside the windows.
“Um, so I should go home?” Adding a question mark on the end didn’t exactly strengthen my case.
“Why?”
“I’m sure you didn’t intend to, uh, have a sleepover tonight. You must be tired.”
“I am. But I can sleep with you here.”
“Oh, okay, good. But I sleep better in my own bed so I should just go.”
“You were sleeping just fine before the storm started. Sure you don’t want me to turn on ‘Enter Sandman’?”
Boomer whimpered and burrowed his head into my lap as if he suspected I was talking about leaving.
“No, I’m good. Really. Storm is backing off.” I took a deep breath and forged ahead. “Look, we probably should have talked about parameters beforehand.”
Christian rubbed under Boomer’s chin. “Uh-huh.”
“I mean, with us. Considering the Cove is so small. And we have a lot of…ties in common. Did you know Maddie was in one of my Childhood Education classes?” Why hadn’t I thought of that before? Not that me vaguely knowing Christian’s baby sister had much to do with me sleeping with him.
Jesus, I’d slept with Christian Masterson. The dude who barely ever smiled. Who wasn’t one for small talk. The grumpiest, growliest man in town.
We’d had sex and it had been amazing. Like best of my life incredible and I still couldn’t believe I’d done it. Mickey would faint.
Maybe I shouldn’t tell her. It didn’t feel right to keep secrets from my best friend, but it also didn’t seem right to blab about something that was private and personal.
And oh, God, if I told her I was going to have to brag, and he was a cop and he’d be mortified if gossip spread somehow and then the people he had to ticket knew he was packing an anaconda in his regulation trousers.
Then again, maybe he’d enjoy having some street cred?
It was Christian. Most likely not.
“That’s nice.”
That’s nice? What the hell?
“We were even kind of friends.”
“Okay,” he said slowly. “You know Murphy too, right?”
“Oh, yeah, I’m tight with Vee. I even babysat the twins a couple of times when Maddie was working.”
“How about Penn? Or Travis? I imagine you’ve talked to them too here or there over the years.”
“Sure. Only a few times since they haven’t been local for a while, but yeah, definitely.”
“And you know I know your brothers.”
I couldn’t figure out where he was going with this. “Yeah, obviously.”
“Just saying when you live in a small town, you will have people in common. Neither of us live in a cave in the woods.”
