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“But Lindsey, nothing,” she interrupted, coming over to the side of the bed and settling back down into my lap. “I really think my G-Man is being swayed by testosterone in this case. But I promise I will have no contact with him other than electronically and for study purposes only. Okay?”
I nodded, still not feeling good about. Hell, I had always done well in Physics. I wished like the devil we could postpone this deal for one day and I would fucking stay here and help her with the damn formulas.
“Just see that you do. I don’t want you answering any questions he asks not related directly to the subject matter, okay?”
“I promise, Taz,” she replied, kissing the tip of my nose. “Now, will you please drive me home?”
I did so reluctantly. I wasn’t ready to part with her yet. I didn’t like the thought of a one or two week absence from her. This was definitely a first.
Luckily, I had hard-wired the GPS tracker in her car when we had arrived back in Falls Church, not that I intended to use it for “stalking” purposes. It did provide some peace of mind, though.
“Do you want me to drop you off a little ways from your house?” I asked her, trying to be considerate, in light of the situation. I fully intended to be the one to let Slate know the score.
“Gee, Taz,” she replied, getting an impish grin on her face, “I could’ve just called my pimp from your house and had him meet me on the corner to drive me home.”
She was such a smart-ass at times, but funny as hell. That was sexy.
“Gosh, do you think Daddy Slate is going to ground me?” she asked, batting her eyes at me.
I pulled my car into the driveway, pulling her over to me.
“Smart ass,” I whispered against her sweet mouth. “Be good, okay?”
“I will, Taz. I want you be careful, okay?”
“Always am,” I said, giving her a final kiss. “I’ll be in touch when I can.”
CHAPTER 33
I practically stumbled through the front door, one of my heels catching on the rolled up cuff of the still too long sweats. I could hear Slate and Bryce in the kitchen. For once, luck was on my side as I crept on up the stairs and hit the shower.
I hated washing Taz’s scent off of me, but knowing Slate and his well-honed senses, he would pick up on it. I preferred letting Taz handle the PR on our relationship.
I dressed in a pair of my own sweats and went back downstairs to check out the situation with Slate and Bryce. It was all good.
I peeked in on Mom and she was dozing off again. The pain meds she was still taking seemed to knock her out.
I told Slate I would be upstairs starting my Physics assignment. He said he was good to hang with Bryce for a while and to take all the time I needed.
I started my lesson plan hoping I could make some progress before Kyzer and me face-timed on our iPads. The content we were studying was magnetic fields. My eyes glazed over ten minutes into it.
At two o’clock sharp, my iPad chimed with his incoming call.
“Hey, Lindsey,” he greeted warmly. “How’s it going?”
“Not well,” I admitted, “I’m really struggling with all this stuff about charges moving parallel versus perpendicular to the magnetic fields.”
For the next hour, Kyzer went over the study material with me. He was really great at showing examples of how the same concepts we studied in electric fields with the exception that all magnetic fields have both a north pole and a south pole, equal in strength. His visual examples helped with my understanding the concepts.
As we wound up the conversation, I felt more confident that I could get through the rest of the material and submit my assignment for a passing grade.
“Thank you so much, Kyzer. I was actually considering dropping this class.”
“I am happy to help, Lindsey. How is everything else going there? Is your mother feeling any better?”
I remembered Taz cautioning me on sharing info so I made it as general as possible.
“She is resting well, so hopefully I’ll be back on campus in the near future.”
