“If we gallivant around the world again, we need to put Tokyo and Sydney on the list.Next time, Party Boy, we’ll spend nine days in that bed the right way.”Playing with him was so much fun.“You never did make-out with me that day.Broke my heart.”
“Won’t happen again.I like making out now I know it leads to other things.Someone taught me that.”
“Smart woman.”Mm, he tasted good.The texture of his skin enlivened her.“One thing we never got clear, Skippy.Just because you’re a one bunny duck doesn’t mean the seduction stops.No, you just redirect your compulsion to fornicate onto me.You’re still expected to lead me astray on a regular basis.”
Even without her eyes, she could feel his energy, his edge.They belonged.In that moment, and every other, together.
“You not getting enough?”
“Sex?No, definitely not, Smirky Pants.”No, boy, she didn’t need eyes to know.“Shall we go over your record from the last two weeks?Won’t be so funny then, huh?Do you know how many times these fingers…” She skimmed them down his shoulder, his bicep.Mmm.His hot, hard—okay, not the point.“Have done your work for you?As much as I love your sexy words, they’re even better paired with your touch.”
His laugh rumbled through her whole body.“Even better when I can look at you too.How about I make you a deal?”
“Hit me with your best shot, Whizz Negotiator.I’m no easy mark, I’ll have you know.I have a lawyer, yep, that’s me, I’m a bigshot now.”Stroking up and down his arms, her body rubbed on his in instinct.“He’s my boyfriend’s lawyer too, but I’m sure we have confidentiality…” Huh, actually… rising, she landed both hands on his chest.“Do we have confidentiality?”
“You and me?A hundred percent.”
And that was a deliberate misinterpretation.“With Dunlap.”
Still hadn’t decided if she liked the lawyer.Could go either way on any given day, usually depended on the topic.
“Why?What do you need him lying to me about?”
“Uh…” Her fingernails found their way to his stubble.Yum!“Not me.I’m not lying.You’re lying.”
“What am I lying about?”
“I don’t know, if I knew it wouldn’t be confidentiality, would it?I want to know if Dunlap keeps things from me, things you tell him.”
“If he does, we’ll just fire him.”
She tsked.“You’d fire a lawyer for not divulging your personal business to your wife?”
“I’d fire a lawyer if you snapped your fingers and told me to make it happen.There’s nothing that I can give that you wouldn’t get.It’s all you, Lola Bunny.”
“Okay, Dunlap can stay.”
“There’s nothing I’d hide from you.You don’t have to ask any lawyer, whatever it is, I’ll tell you myself.I run everything by you first.You organize my thoughts in a way no one else ever did or could.Your perspective always helps.”Because it was rarely the same as his.Impulse took his thoughts to business and strategy, she saw things from a more personal, intimate, side.“Something comes up and my first thought is—”
“What would Roxie do?”she asked.“My girls do that too.Could be an insult, that’s never really been made clear.”
“The equivalent of, ‘don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.’”
“Me or you?”she asked.“Either way that doesn’t leave much.”
He was so relaxed, even in his snicker.“As long as I’m doing it with you, what is there to worry about?”
“You’re doing it again,” she murmured.
“Doing what?”
“Looking at me like I’m crazy.Geez, man, after a year and a half, I’d think you’d be used to me by now.”
“What happened to your blindfold?”
Her lips grazed his.“I don’t need to see you to know what’s in your eyes.”
“That look doesn’t mean you’re crazy,” he said.“It’s me astounded that you exist.That your unique, incredible, sexy as hell self chooses to be with me.It’s my determination to have you and never let you go.”
