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“This is one of those times that’s really confusing to a man,” Jack said, coming in behind me.
I took a moment to look my fill. I was a lucky, lucky woman. Not only for the fact that he was just about the most perfect example of the male species I’d ever seen, but the fact that underneath the sarcasm and the need to play the occasional practical joke, he had the most giving and loving heart of anyone I’d ever known. I wasn’t sure what I’d done to deserve that kind of loyalty or love, but I was grateful every day.
“What’s confusing?” I asked, much less interested in his thought processes than I was in the towel hanging precariously from his hips.
“It’s one of those times where a normal man would wonder if a woman was laying naked on the bed because she was trying to seduce him, or because she was trying to cool off. Fortunately, I’m not a normal man.”
“Praise Jesus for that. So what conclusion did you come to? Am I trying to seduce you or cool off?”
“First of all, you seduce me with every breath you take.”
I snorted out a laugh and he grinned, dropping the towel.
“Well now, I can see you were telling the truth and you have, in fact, recuperated.”
He grabbed my ankles and pulled me toward the edge of the bed. “Stop trying to distract me, woman. I was in the middle of telling you the conclusion of my hypothesis.”
“I apologize. Carry on.”
“Thank you.” He cleared his throat and said, “Second of all, I know you well enough to know that you’re too lazy to dig out pajamas from the suitcase, so you’ve just decided to go naked until I either dig them out for you or give you one of my shirts to wear.”
“I don’t like being pigeonholed like that,” I said primly. “There could be any number of reasons for my nakedness.”
“Oh yeah?” he asked, pushing my knees apart with his hands and crawling between my thighs. “Like what?”
My breath hitched as he came down on top of me, taking a nipple between his teeth. My hands grasped his biceps and my legs twined around his hips. “What was the question?” I asked.
He laughed and then slid deep inside of me. “I’ll tell you later.”
***
Jack’s cell phonerang and my eyes opened slowly. I was completely disoriented and so tired I couldn’t remember where I was. But I recognized Jack’s arms around me, and held a little tighter as the phone continued to ring. We’d fallen asleep on top of the covers and I’d finally started to cool off.
“You’re phone is ringing,” I muttered against his neck.
“I know. It’s Carver.”
Jack rolled us so I lay on top of him and he could reach his phone on the nightstand.
“Lawson,” he said and then after a second, “Hold on and let me put it on speaker so Jaye can hear.”
Jack hit the speakerphone button and then set it back down on the nightstand.
“Y’all are not freaking going to believe this one,” Carver said. “I don’t know how you do it. It’s like you’re magnets for the most bizarre crimes of the century.”
“Jesus, Carver. It’s almost three o’clock in the morning.”
“Oh, I’m sorry. Did I wake you? Because I’m just sitting here holding a colicky baby and getting information on one of the most hated men in history. But it’s cool. I’ll call back in the morning.”
“Hello, drama,” I said, snuggling against Jack’s chest.
“I heard that,” Carver whispered. “If I wasn’t holding this child I’ve finally managed to get to sleep after hours of walking the floor I’d give you a piece of my mind.”
“A piece of your mind?” Jack asked, his chest rumbling with laughter beneath my cheek. “Did we time travel to 1955? What did you pick up that’s so earth shattering?”
“Leon Stein is none other than Friedrich Josef Durst of the Third Reich.”
“Excuse me?” Jack asked. He sat up and I came up with him.
