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He dropped his dirty clothes on top of the pile, then slid his arot so”
She looked up at hi “What?”
“Goodher forehead Then his lips found hers and they stood there for several seconds, everything else forgotten “Oh hell yeah,” he said when their lips finally separated “It’s definitely a good ”
Her cheeks were flushed, but all she said was, “Yes, it is”
When Liaes of the bottoether and tied the that, he pulled on an olive green short-sleeved golf shirt and strapped on his shoulder holster He grio out strapped without covering up, even if it is suh she hadn’t asked “Here, I’ll take that” He hefted the bundle over one shoulder
Liah it took longer than he expected because of the speed limit in the mountains As he’d told Cate, Black Rock was small, but they did locate a Laundromat two blocks off Main Street And wonder of wonders, it was already open for business—the sign said it opened at seven and it was just past eight when they arrived Cate filled two ee machine and tried to insert a twenty Thethe bill back at him, so he tried another without any luck
“Machine’s e aup frostore next door will give you changeif you buy so The pharmacy counter doesn’t open until nine, but the store itself opened at eight”
“Thanks,” Liam told her To Cate he said quietly, “I don’t want you out of ht, so come with ht back”
Startled, she said, “You really think someone will find me here?”
“One in ait”
She gave him a somber look, as if he’d reer she lived under “Okay”
Liastore, Cate in tow He knew exactly what he was going to buy He’d used his eht, and based on Cate’s positive reaction tolove they would needher But no ould he turn Cate down if she wanted to ain, either, just because he was unprepared And despite the fact he had a reputation within the DSS for having a ith the ladies—just as his brother had before he’d gotten eneral rule He’d been lucky he had one in the eht case he kept in his SUV—the case he’d transferred when he’d switched SUVs with the special agent froency But now
When he found the aisle he wanted he automatically reached for his favorite brand, then hesitated He hadn’t really given it a lot of thought before, but there was quite a variety of condohten a woman’s pleasure rather than a ht pink and she was looking everywhere except at him
Her shyness over so as prosaic as this charmed hiht?”
Her gaze flickered toward hied before her voice trickled away
Okay, so he wasn’t dense She meant what he norrabbed a box of twenty-four off the shelf
At the checkout Liaed honey buns since they’d skipped breakfast, then told the cashier with his e for the Laundroet a roll of quarters, please?”
Cate and Liam headed back to the cabin near Granite Peak almost two hours later, with the clean and folded laundry sitting neatly stacked on the backseat The drugstore bag—with its box of condoaze continually drifted in its direction as she thought about what that meant
Vishenko had never worn a condo her or any of the worateful she’d never gotten pregnant, had never ended up with a sexually transmitted disease, either, but neither fact was a virtue in Vishenko—he hadn’t cared If she’d gotten pregnant he would probably have forced her to have an abortion, a dilemma that had torn her apart at the time Not that she wanted his child—the ideahis child she would also be aborting her own, so she couldn’t fathom