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I wasn’t angry that I wanted her, I was terrified that I did

I lay back down on the couch and took one of the decorative pillows and smashed it over my face so I could shout every dirty word I could think of into it It was already a long night and noas going to seem endless

“YOU AREN’T GOING TO try any of that on?” I hated shopping Hated it Most men I knew just considered it a necessary evil when they had a woman in their life they needed to keep happy I only went shopping for myself when I ran out of underwear or needed new shoes and stuff for work Most of the jeans and T-shirts I wore I had had since the police academy back in the day and that worked just fine for me Reeve was an anomaly She seemed to dislike the act just as much as I did

There wasn’t anything close to a mall in the Point, in fact o after one too many armed robberies So we had driven to the outlet shops that were on the outskirts of the city I braced for hours of torture Much to h the stores like she was on a et in and out as quickly as possible Her eyes kept darting around like she was expecting sorab her, and as a result she had an ar toward the checkout counter ithout having tried a stitch of it on

She looked at s on everything

“I knohat size I wear and I didn’t get anything too fancy Just some jeans and shirts and a couple of skirts that are too short so that anyone looking at us will knohy you can’t resist me”

I grunted at her and handed over my credit card as the clerk rattled off the total Reeve thanked us both and then tolda pair of the new jeans and darting back toward the dressing roos the clerk handed over and headed out to the front of the store to wait for her I scanned the parking lot and keptabout while I waited for Reeve to appear

My phone rang and I hit ignore when I sawa bang-up job of ignoring Bax for the last feeeks He kneas shacking up with Reeve at Race’s place, but I had yet to explain to him why I was surprised he hadn’t stored a lot since Dovie entered the picture He was a lot less reactive than he had been before

“Jesus” I jolted involuntarily when a light hand landed on my lower back as I slipped my phone back in my pocket and looked down at Reeve She shouldn’t have been able to get so close to ht and s I held

She lifted up on the tips of her toes and brushed her lips across my check I kneas all for show but the siether