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“It’s fine,” I urge.
A terse shake of his head tells me it’s not fine.
But oh, that kiss sure was fine.
“If we’re caught, I’ll be kicked off your case.”
Case. I’m a case.
“You kiss all your cases?”
He glowers. “Only the really hot ones.”
“Hello?” The door opens, and Jane appears.
I need a fan to cool myself down.
“Jane,” Drew says with a head nod. “Just don’t open the curtains, and I’ll be in the hall if you need anything.” Without looking at me, Drew leaves.
How can he leave me hanging like that?
“Oh, Lindsay,” Jane says. When I don’t answer, she looks at me closely, then back at the door.
“Oh, Lindsay,” she says again, only in a very different tone. “Did I interrupt something?”
She always was perceptive.
“Just, you know...” I pick the first word that comes to mind. “Debriefing.”
“Whose briefs came off first?”
“Jane!”
She smothers her smile with a palm. “He still loves you.”
“Not that again. You know how it all, well...”
She pulls a chair over to the bed and hands me a gold foil box.
“What’s this?”
“Chocolate. Your favorite.”
I open the box and smell maple. “You remembered?”
Jane has the decency to look slightly embarrassed. “My mom told me. She has a file about you.”
“A file?”
“All your favorites. She said your father made her create one for presents.”
Daddy’s got the personal touch down.
“I don’t care. Just—yum! Maple creams! Come pig out with me.”
Jane giggles. “I feel bad. They’re for you.”
“If you don’t help me eat them, who will? My mom?”
