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He kept watching me.
I went into accusatory mode. “You came back to look for the diamonds. You have another client. You’re working for someone else.”
Lee came up on his elbow.
“Smart girl,” he murmured then patted the bed in front of him. “Come here, let me explain.”
Ha! Not even.
“You walked into your own condo and I practically delivered the diamonds to you by bringing Rosie here. Then you tried to extort sex from me in payment for a job you were already getting paid to do, with diamond man lying on the couch for all you knew!”
“Indy—”
I cut him off, “No explanation necessary, Lee. I’m sleeping on the couch and tomorrow I’m going home. We’re through. The end.”
On that I huffed out of the room, put on the lights in the living room and grabbed the remotes. It took me ten minutes to figure out how to use them, five more minutes to set the sleeper timer on the TV and ten minutes to find something to watch. I turned off the lights and settled in.
Throughout this time, the light came through the open bedroom door, but not a sound from Lee. This ticked me off more. Five minutes into my program, the light went off in the bedroom. My anger hit uncharted levels. Five minutes after that, I realized that was it. When I’d said “the end,” Lee didn’t have a problem with it.
Okay, great, wonderful, that was fine by me.
Luckily, I’d had a pretty traumatic day, what with being kidnapped and shot at. Twice.
Not to mention two emotional dramas with Lee.
Even though my mind was racing, my body was crashing from adrenaline withdrawal. Before the sleep setting turned off the TV, I was already in snooze land. When the TV switched itself off, it woke me up. This wasn’t too annoying, seeing as I didn’t fully wake me up. I was three-quarters asleep and one-quarter dozing.
The next thing I knew, I was being lifted in the air.
Lee was carrying me to the bedroom.
“What are you doing?” I asked, half sleepy, half angry.
“Takin’ you to bed,” he answered, fully awake.
“I’m sleeping on the couch,” I told him as he dropped my legs and stood me at the side of the bed. His hands went to the belt of the robe and he didn’t respond.
“What are you doing?” I asked again.
“Gettin’ you ready for bed.”
“Stop that!” I slapped at his hands and he ignored me, so I grabbed the lapels of the robe and held them shut. “I’m nearly naked under this.”
The belt came loose and he leaned into me. I reared back, nearly toppling on the bed. He straightened and held in front of me what I had, until a few hours previously, considered my confiscated Night Stalkers tee.
Since the likelihood of me winning a physical tussle was in the negative percentile and I was tired down to the bone, I snatched the tee from him and whirled around to give him my back.
I could sleep with him, I told myself as I pushed my head through the neckline of the tee. I’d slept with him the last however many nights and I’d survived. One more night wouldn’t kill me.
I slid the robe off my shoulders and let it drop to the ground, and as fast as I could, I pushed my arms through the holes of the tee.
I wasn’t fast enough.
Lee’s hands settled on the skin at my hips just above my panties as the T-shirt dropped into place. Its hem came to rest on his hands.
His chin rested on my shoulder.
“How long are you gonna be mad at me?”
