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spreading around the small bead of moisture that had formed on the slit, Rufsur groaned and put his hand over hers. “Stop.”
“Why?”
“Everyone is waiting for us down at the café.”
“Who is everyone?”
“Kian, Syssi, Amanda, Dalhu, Kalugal, Jacki, and even Atzil and Ruvon have joined. I told them that I’d get you, and we would be down in a moment.”
“How about five moments?”
Laughing, he shook his head. “Hold that thought. We can come back here after lunch.”
“When are you leaving?”
“At four, Okidu is driving us to the airstrip.”
“I’ll come with you.”
He rested his forehead against hers. “I wish we didn’t have company in the limousine.”
“Yeah, me too.” She tucked his erection back into his underwear and zipped him up.
“I used to love it when duty called. Now, I hate it.” Rufsur closed the button on his jeans, and then tucked Edna’s blouse back into her baggy pants. “You know what I would like?” He tried to fix her hair but only seemed to make it worse.
“What?”
“To take all of these pins out, and for you to let your hair down.”
Smiling, she lifted her chin. “Figuratively or literally?”
“Both. May I?” He pulled one pin out.
“Go for it.”
When he was done, he threaded his fingers through her hair and fanned it out over her shoulders. “Can you do me a favor?”
“What?”
“Can you wear it like that while I’m gone?”
“Why?”
He wrapped his arm around her shoulders and led her out of the office. “I’m not sure. Maybe I need a reminder that I had some impact on your life and that you are having fun without me.”
Edna chuckled. “My hairstyle has nothing to do with me having fun or not.”
“I disagree. It’s like smiling even when you don’t feel like it and then feeling happier for it. When you let your hair down, you are more inclined to have fun.”
She shook her head. “It’s not going to be fun without you. Why should I pretend that it is?”
“If you let me call you this time, we can have fun.” He leaned and whispered in her ear, “Video calls can be very naughty.”
Edna scowled at him. “No way. What if our bosses monitor our conversations?”
“Then we will give them a show.”
“I’m not an exhibitionist.”
“Liar. Do you think that I’ve forgotten your story about making love under the waterfall with Robbie’s men within hearing distance?”
She laughed. “You are right. There was that.”
It dawned on her then that bringing up one of her favorite memories of Robbie hadn’t been painful. For the first time since he’d died, she could think back to the time she had with him with warmth and fondness in her heart and not an aching, gaping hole.
She owed it to Rufsur.
Anyone else would have stayed away from the subject and tiptoed around it, perhaps would have even been resentful of the love she’d shared with another.
But not Rufsur.
His heart was big enough to accept her together with the human male she had loved and lost.
He had helped her heal.
“I love you.” She smiled at him.
“Oh, yeah?” He stopped and turned toward her. “How much?”
“With everything that I have.” She wrapped her arms around his neck.
“Prove it.”
Edna knew what he wanted to hear her say, but she wasn’t ready to do that. “You can video call me, and we will have as many naughty conversations as you want.”
Rufsur looked a little disappointed. “For the next two weeks, it will have to do.”
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