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“Would you like that on the table here or in your lap?”
“I’ll take it on my lap, sha. Tank you,” he said, taking hold of it and setting it down.
“You ready for this hurricane?” she asked, unwrapping his utensils.
“Meh, ready or not, here it comes, yeah?”
She smiled and nodded. “I think Patches might like them. He gets to bring you over here so you can spoil him more.” She smiled at his big laugh.
“Meh, don’t tell him but he’s my favorite.”
“Well, I think somebody done spilled those beans to him. I heard all about it.”
“Meh, what you heard like that?” he wondered, a laugh in his light words as he took a big bite of red beans and rice. “Mmm-mmdat Miss Justine sure know her way around dat kitchen, yeah.”
“Itdoeslook good,” she said, removing the lid from his drink. “Well now, Patches didn’t tell me in those exact words, but I can read between the lines. You are the King Grand Pier.”
He let go his biggest laugh yet and the sound made her giggle.
“Did you pack your crown?”
He started coughing on his food and she moved his tray, tapping him on his back. He tried to take a breath and she panicked at hearing him struggle.
Sarah was suddenly there, pulling him forward and moving his legs off the bed. “Arms up, now, get those lungs cleared. Get me his drink,” she urged.
Tegan quickly grabbed it, spilling some on the bed as she did.
“Little sip. There you go. Clear it out now. Remember how I showed you? Take a nice deep breath then big long cough.”
Patches entered next, hurrying to the bed as Tegan stepped farther back, out of the way. “What happened?”
“I just heard him coughing and I came in,” Sarah said.
“He took a bite of food and started coughing,” Tegan explained. “I…I made him laugh, I think that might have done it.”
“She made you laugh?” he asked, his tone teasing. “I thought I was the only one that did that?”
“Well, here I thought I was the only one that did that,” Sarah added in a light tease. “I see I have competition.”
God, when he finally got his breath, the panic latched onto her muscles ebbed away and Tegan needed to sit but didn’t want to look lazy or as useless as she felt. She suddenly wanted to be doing anything but caring for the one person Patches loved more than anything in the whole world.
“How about some yogurt for that war you just waged on your throat,” Sarah suggested sweetly, sitting on the bed next to him. “Don’t tell Patches but my favorite part about hurricanes is seeing you.”
“Here we go,” Patches chuckled as Sarah laughed. Tegan suddenly felt like an ugly stepchild amongst blooded-bond servants.
“Tegan, honey, those mothers would probably love you forever if you brought them their dinner right about now. I’ll finish up with Mr. Stinker here.”
Shit. Right. “On it. Bye Mr. Monroe,” she said halfway out the door. “Sorry I nearly killed you.” The door shut and she hurried down the hall, mortified with her last words. God, could she screw up any more?
Do not say that shit. Do not challenge karma.
CHAPTER FOUR
Patches opened the door to the downstairs apartment, the sound of the shower telling him Tegan was done with her work upstairs. The incident with his Grand Pier had shaken her and he hadn’t been able to talk to her about it. She’d surely undergone quite the personality change in the span of a day. Probably from something big mouth Juliette told her. She was nothing like the cocky chick who’d taken his joint right from his lips and took a puff on it. This Tegan was alotquieter. More… vulnerable. He was torn between which he liked more.
Sarah continued proving him right for a mate choice. She’d displayed mature, professional, even kindness with Tegan, despite they’d gotten off to a rough start. He couldn’t fault Sarah for protecting him, that was her job and he liked that she was damn good at it. And yet it was Tegan that took him into the fires of lust. Maybe because she was in his shower. Maybe because of herass. Because of hertits. Her fucking perfect mouth. And all the things that came out of it. He closed his eyes and flung his good boy commitment aside, putting her against that shower wall. He watched the lust-filled rapture in her face as he hiked one of those thick legs up andfuckedher. Fucked her into oblivion.
Damn, hedefinitelyfucking needed to jack off. His urges were off the charts.
