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She smirked. “Let me guess, you’re here to cure me of that flaw?”
“Quite the contrary,” he replied. “I’m here to spoil you and make it worse. Nothing wrong with knowing what you want.”
“I know I wantyou,” she said, her voice low when she leaned over to kiss his lips.
“You’ve got me,” he replied, his voice scratchy as he stared into her blue eyes. “For as long as you continue to want me.”
“I suppose I could keep you around,” her tone was teasing and light, but it poked at something raw and painful deep inside. “I need someone to push the cart at the grocery store today.”
He swallowed, pushing down that painful, raw feeling before grinning. “Fine, fine, fine. Hint taken. I’ll go bring in all that lumber and clean up in the backyard. Then it’s off to buy groceries and do domestic things.”
“Don’t say it like it’s such a chore,” she quipped. “I’m not twisting your arm, am I?”
“Not at all,” he replied, stepping out of her embrace and making his way to the back door while she followed. “I’ve been looking forward to it all day.”
Maybe not that specifically, but it was generally the truth.
“All day, huh? That’s all you were thinking about?”
“Well… I thought about fucking you too,” he confessed, grabbing the hand saw and bringing it up the steps to lay on the porch. “But I figure that can wait until we get back to yours.” He hopped back down the steps and scooped up the wood pieces that he had tossed into the grass. “Bed’s not finished here.”
She swatted him. “Fine. Build a bed. It’s something most adults have , anyway.”
Chapter Twenty-Five
It surprised Teagan she was only twenty minutes late to work that day. She hadn’t been to see her doctor in more than a year, so her appointment had been one test after another. Blood work, a pelvic exam, and a questionnaire.
But she’d left with a prescription for birth control, which she dropped off at the pharmacy before heading to Barclay’s.
Brittany wasn’t expecting her for another half hour, so when she saw Teagan stroll through the door, she was confused. “Did your appointment get canceled?”
Teagan shook her head. “No, I had it. Had every test done under the moon and went to the pharmacy, so I’m not sure how I got here so soon.”
“Everything okay?” Britt’s eyebrows raised, watching her as she came around to check herself into the register.
“What? Oh yeah, everything’s fine,” Teagan said with a laugh. “It was just a check-up. I needed to get a prescription filled.” She gave her a knowing look, glancing around the shop and seeing two girls standing near the small houseplants, so she just mouthed the next two words. “Birth control.”
Britt looked relieved. “Oh, thank fuck, I thought you were already… you know… preggers.”
“Shush,” she hissed, glancing at the girls and then back to Britt.
“Oh, Michelle and Hannah don’t care, do they?” Britt called to them. “You don’t mind if we talk about doctor-stuff, right? We’re all women here.”
One girl grabbed the arm of the other and dragged her out into the greenhouse. The one being dragged glared back at Teagan as she went.
“Michelle’s got sticky fingers,” Britt informed Teagan, reaching for the laptop and opening it to the security camera feed for the greenhouse. “I like to keep her on her toes. Keeps her from thinking she can just grab things.”
“What’s she stealing in a greenhouse?” Teagan asked, peering at the screen herself.
“Look, some of these cultivars are pretty valuable in some circles. They fetch a bigger price down in North Rock… they have taken nothing today, though… it’s weird.” She and Teagan watched as the two girls appeared to argue for a bit and then leave through a back door.
“Strange,” Teagan mused, frowning at the screen.
“So where were we? Britt asked. “You aren’t up the duff, but sick of condoms already?” She leaned over the counter to waggle her eyebrows at Teagan.
“God yes,” she groaned.
Brittany laughed a little, her gaze still on the screen in front of her, even though Michelle and Hannah had left. “Yeah, I made that decision myself. Your brother’s insatiable.”
