“Yeah?”
I took a deep breath.
Then I took a scary plunge.
“I think I’ve changed my mind,” I said.
I felt his body grow tight.
“I think…” I whispered, “I don’t want you to let me go.” I’d barely got out the “go” when Hank rol ed me over, rol ed on top of me and Shamus jerked and jumped off the bed as he kissed me.
He went straight into one of his make-me-dizzy, ful on tongue, brains scrambling, hands everywhere Hank Nightingale kisses.
One of my arms wrapped around him and my other hand slid into his hair. I pushed off with a foot and rol ed him over, getting on top, laying kisses down on his neck, col arbone and I started down his chest when he yanked me up and rol ed me back. He got on top of me again and kissed me, his hands sliding my nightie up to my waist and then beginning to pul my panties down.
It was then my phone rang.
We both stil ed.
We listened to it ring until it stopped.
Hank’s hands slid back up my hips, slow, not starting anything, waiting.
Then my phone rang again.
“Fuck,” he muttered and shifted, moving to turn on the light.
Stil under him, I twisted, grabbed my bag off the nightstand and snatched out my phone as the light came on.
It said, “Unknown number”.
I flipped it open. “Hel o?”
“Were you f**kin’ him?”
My body tensed.
Hank was mostly on top of me and looking down at me.
“Bil y?” I said.
Instantly, Hank rol ed away from me and knifed off the bed. I came up on my elbow and watched as he tagged his phone from the nightstand at the same time grabbing his jeans. Bil y talked in my ear.
“Were you f**kin’ him? Is he touchin’ you now, you bitch?”
“Bil y, where are you?” I was watching Hank. He’d hit a few buttons on the phone and it was tucked into his neck while he pul ed on his jeans.
“Fuck you, Roxie. Fuck you and f**k Detective Hank Nightingale.”
“You listening?” I heard Hank say into his phone.
“Is that him? What’s he saying, the f**k,” Bil y said in my ear.
“Bil y, you’re in trouble. Desmond Harper’s men are after you,” I told him.
Hank looked at me, nodded and gave me an encouraging wink.
I felt relief flood through me. I was doing the right thing by keeping him talking.