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“No, you’re gonna sleep with me, just not as payment for finding Rosie.”
“Lee—”
“Go back to Fortnum’s. I’ll be at your house at seven to take you to dinner.”
I harrumphed.
Then I asked, mainly out of curiosity, because there wasno wayI was going to dinner with Lee, that might mean inebriation, or kissing, or something else that would take my mind off my plan and that couldn’t happen, “Where’re we going?”
“Barolo Grill.”
For a second, I forgot about my vow to avoid all things Lee.
“Oh. My. God! How did you know? I love it there!”
“Honey, you demand your family birthday dinners are there every year. It’s not hard to figure out you love it.”
Then he disconnected.
Something about his calling me “honey” and processing my desired birthday destination made my stomach flip over in a happy way.
“What’s this about not sleeping with Lee?” Ally asked.
I stared at Grizzly then looked in my rearview mirror. Matt was taking a call and shaking his head.
“You know how I’m saying Lee and I are taking it slow?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, I’m taking it slow. Lee wants things to go a little faster.”
“I see.” Ally was grinning.
“What’s with the grin?” I demanded.
“Girl, you are sonotgonna go slow.”
Great.
We got out of the car and walked up to Grizzly’s house. Ally forged ahead without a care in the world. I drug my heels and looked back at Matt. He’d gotten out of his SUV, pulled a handgun out of the back waistband of his jeans and tucked it in full view at the hipbone in the front. He leaned against his SUV and crossed his arms.
“They come back, sportin’ a bodyguard,” Grizzly said by way of greeting, not looking at us, but looking at Matt. “So now, I suppose you want me to think you’re serious. Especially now with you and a shiner. Jeez. You knee him in the nuts?”
“How do you know it was a him?” I asked.
“Girls don’t go for the cheekbones,” he answered.
“Oh.” I didn’t know that.
“Did you?” Grizzly persisted.
“What?”
“Knee him in the nuts?”
“I bit him.”
“Bit him!” He threw his head back and laughed. “Next time, go for the gonads.”
