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"Oh no, the alarm!" Kay whirled around and raced back down the hallway Her heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was in her throat All she could think was get to Eli Even though she’d been careful to give him his privacy, at that moment she didn’t care She burst into his roo a pair of jeans and nothing else Di that she’d already seen him naked, otherwise the additional shock would have probably stopped her heart

As it was, she launched herself into his arel I’ve got it Just wait here" He sole her arms from around his neck and Kay sat on the floor at his feet He walked out into the hallway, and a few h of relief She had cootten about the alarm since he was usually up early and disabled it before she even woke up Her alarm at home was only on the front door, so she’d never had to worry about it alking around inside her apartht her eye Eli’s closet doors were open There were rows and rows of shiny and colorful objects There was so belt She leaned closer to see what it was

"Oh my God" She al at It looked like some kind of torture device,strips at the end With a sasp, she stood and walked closer One shelf held sine what some of them were for, but they looked painful

And scary as hell

The second shelf held things that she could at least identify Kay blushed all the way down to her toes as she looked at the row of vibrators Sasha had always kept hers in her bedside drawer and loved toit out Kay had always been curious about theet one, but every time she decided to do it, she chickened out It was so childish, but she couldn’t help wondering what if her mother ever came over and stumbled across it She would instantly die from the embarrassment Plus, she wasn’t entirely sure what to do with it, and that wasn’t the kind of thing you could ask someone

"It’s okay now I called headquarters so they’d knoas a false alarm" Eli appeared in the doorway to the roo into the closet, he stiffened

Kay backed up a step and looked down at her feet "Sorry about that I wasn’t thinking"

Eli calance in his direction to see hio take a shower"

"Kay, wait"

Eli took a step in her direction and she couldn’t help but shrink back His eyes fluttered shut for a moment, and when he opened them, the pain on his face el"

"I know I’ I didn’t mean to snoop, I swear It was just the closet was open--"

"You don’t have to explain anything I just wanted you to know that what’s in there doesn’t change anything between you and h, half sob "It doesn’t matter? Of course it matters Eli, I don’t even knohat half that stuff is"

Eli ran his hands over his bald head "You don’t need to knohat it is because I was never going to show it to you anyway"

Fantastic, Kay thought She wasn’t sure what his deal ith hi her until she was so hot that just the brush of her thighs against each other was enough to set her off He’d trusted her with so s she was pretty sure no one else knew She’d definitely trusted hi to hide this part of hiet about it Okay? I know it upset you, but if you could just pretend you never saw it, we can go back to the way things were" Eli watched her closely, like he was afraid she would break at any ht

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

ELI STOOD AT thein the grate When he’d done the upgrades to the house, he’d converted the fireplace to an auto there, aith anger and regret, he found that he o out in the cold and chop wood It would have given hi to hit

A door slammed in the hall and he looked up A second later, another door closed Then it was silent again He hung his head Kay was probably going to spend the rest of the day in her roo alone with him now

He yanked his cell phone fro useful A few minutes later, Tank answered

"Hey, boss"

"Where are ith Banner? Have you found anything to connect Jereh Jeremy clai he’s told us so far has been true, so I can’t think of any reason he would lie about that one detail Banner was also telling the truth about his can platform He’s already scheduled several interviews to talk about alternative family values and the need for diversity in the senate So he wasn’t just blowing smoke to throw me off"