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‘Stop joking around You have to get up Get dressed’

Sa love and talking for most of the day he was completely sated

Not that they’d talked about anything important Like ould happen once they returned to Sydney He’d thought about it after Ruby had fallen asleep earlier on and he kneanted things to continue between theot back No doubt she would see it as a complication but it didn’t have to be The truth was he liked her He liked spending time with her in bed and out, he liked her sass and her fire, he liked her professional confidence and the way she pushed herself and others to help those in need

His gaze softened as he watched her searching for soh when his dog slobbered all over her face, and he loved her skyscraper-shoe collection Why would he want to give that up and move on before he was ready?

‘Sam! You’re still in bed!’

Seeing her panic, Sa Certainly he hadn’t been overly cos about his father as he’d done earlier, but then he hadn’t been nearly as unco about hers He wondered if he shouldn’t be more alarmed about how much he had shared with her, and then became distracted by her sweet curves

‘Cal tone ‘Tino already knows you’re here’

Kong barked at the door and Ruby nearly jumped out of her skin ‘Yes, but he doesn’t know I’ on a case’

‘So what? He’ll figure it out in time’

‘I don’t want hiure it out If someone at the office should find out’ She left the rest of the sentence hanging but Saist and didn’t like it He rolled out of bed and yanked on his board shorts, trying not to become irritated ‘My brother isn’t indiscreet and last time I checked he didn’t work for me’

‘I still don’t want him or Miller to know about’ Her hand waved between them as if she was at a loss for words, and that infuriated hiht at a party is explainable—sort of But this’