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"Well, somehow it happened, right?"
"Somehow?" Her laugh sounded more like a snort. "He wore me down with sex. What can I say," she yawned again, "I'm a simple woman and he gave me what I needed."
"Sex?" He felt a little awkward talking about this with any woman, let alone his boss. "I'm not going to ask Rock about how he... about how he-"
"Fucked me into loving him? It wasn't like that exactly..."
"What are you talking about, Katie?"
Jacob heard Rock's voice close to the phone.
"Jacob messed up with Molly. She hightailed it up to Webb senior's apartment and now he wants to know how to get her back."
Rock's laughter kind of hurt, but his words weren't all that bad.
"Did you try saying you're sorry?"
Ah. No.
"I didn't try that. No."
Rock laughed again. "Get your shit together in your head. Go up and talk to her. TALK. TO. HER. And then if that doesn't work-"
"Sex?" Kate chuckled, and then she laughed out loud. "Hey, baby, watch where you put those hands!"
"You like where I've got my hands."
Jacob lifted his gaze to the ceiling as if he was worried he might see something he shouldn't.
"You okay, Jacob?" Rock's voice was still gravely from sleep. "Because I'm about to put Kate over my shoulder and take her back to bed."
"Fireman's carry? God, I love you, Rock."
"Yeah. I'm fine. Thanks." Jacob managed to get that through the phone line before the call went dead on Kate's side.
He set his cell phone down on the kitchen counter and laughed silently.
Like Rock said, he had to get his shit together and then go up and talk to her.
He might have heard a little too much from the couple on the phone, but what Rock said really made sense.
It was logical. Which he didn't think about when he was trying to figure things out with Molly.
With her, he'd said what he said because he was afraid.
It wasn't something he was used to acknowledging. Working for the police, he was used to being in danger. Not just being in danger, but dealing with it. Doing what he needed to do at any given moment.
But Molly?
Fuck.
He liked the fact that she worked in that building.
Up until he heard her afraid on the other end of the phone. Then seeing her hurt and unconscious on the floor.
It made him crazy.
And that was probably why he'd been such a jackass to her.
