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There it was again, the G-word.
“Everyone knows?” What I meant was…everyone knew I was his…G-word.
“Cops talk. You’ve been the main topic of conversation since I got pulled in after the bachelor party brawl.”
Oh…dear…Lord.
I went up on my elbow. Eddie rolled to his back and I looked down on him.
“What do you mean, pulled in after the bachelor party brawl?” I asked.
He was wearing his satisfied look and my belly curled. He tucked my hair behind my ear and then cupped my jaw, running his thumb across my bottom lip.
My belly curl turned into a twist.
“They’re not exactly gonna give me a commendation for starting a fight and breakin’ some guy’s nose a few days before his wedding.”
I blinked then I stared. “You got in trouble?”
“Relaxchiquita.” He grinned and pulled me down to him. “Nothing came of it. The groom wasn’t fired up to tell his bride he’d got his nose broke because he put his hand down the shirt of a cocktail waitress at a strip joint. And Smithie didn’t push it, likely because of you.”
I thought about Bachelor Number One, orTheBachelor, getting married with a big old swollen nose. That would be a serious bummer for the wedding photos.
But I had to admit, I liked the thought. Mainly because he was a jerk, even if I felt sorry for his bride for a variety of reasons.
I couldn’t help it, a wedding photo appeared in my head and it made me smile. As my face was against Eddie’s chest, he felt it and kissed the top of my head.
Then I lost my smile as my thoughts drifted.
Eddie got into trouble at work for me. Eddie also paid for my car, which had to cost at least a thousand bucks, not to mention the coffeemaker. Eddie was a cop. I figured cops probably did all right money-wise, say, in comparison to bums like my dad. They weren’t known to be bazillionaires. And last night, Eddie was supposed to be somewhere where something was “going down,” but instead he was at the hospital with me.
Seriously, this could not go on.
I figured it was time to have a Jet Chat.
“Eddie?” I started.
“Shit, I thought I had your ‘Eddies’ down but that sounds like a new one,” he teased.
I ignored him. “I thought you had something going on last night.”
“I did.”
“Did it ‘go down?’” I asked.
His hand slid up my back and started to play with my hair. “Heard the call go over the radio. Indy’s got her own code, which shouldn’t surprise you. I knew you were with her so I blew out.”
I closed my eyes.
“Iama pain in the ass,” I whispered.
He pulled gently on my hair and I looked up at him. He had his chin dipped, looking down at me. His face was mellow yet serious. It was a new look, and just like any of his looks, I liked it.
“I was on a stakeout, nothin’ was happening, it was becoming clear nothin’ was gonna happen and it was boring as hell. Although I would rather have come home to you jazzed like you were the other night, you didn’t interrupt anything.”
Well, that was a relief.
I decided to hit on topic number two. I didn’t know how to broach it so I decided just to be direct. “You have to quit spending money on me.”
