Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
This did not sound good.
Lee slowly turned to Eddie. “I’m not sure I like that idea.”
Eddie looked at Lee. “Get over it.”
They stared at each other and moments passed while testosterone permeated the air.
“Oh for f**k’s sake. She might be pregnant with your baby, Lee. She’s hardly gonna wander,” Duke said.
My mouth dropped open.
Eddie looked at me, his eyes moved down to my belly then back up to my face. Then he turned to Lee.
“That didn’t take long,” he said.
“I’m not pregnant,” I said, (perhaps wishful thinking).
Tex came up with the coffees and handed them around.
“All right, boys, get to work,” he said.
Eddie walked to the couch and sat down, putting one cowboy-booted ankle on the other knee, spreading an arm along the back of the couch and taking a sip of cappuccino. He was looking at me and grinning in a sexy way.
Great.
Lee snagged my neck and pulled me to him.
“You’re gonna be okay,” he said.
I nodded even though I didn’t believe him.
He kissed me and walked out.
Ally waved at Lee, who was getting on his bike as she walked in, and announced, “You have to miss a period, but I bought a couple pregnancy tests anyway, just in case.” And she waved around the boxes.
I looked at Eddie.
Eddie smiled.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Long-Lasting Reliability
I filled Ally in on the Cherry explosion and the reason for my new bodyguard.
Ally said, “There are a lot of things I imagined happening to her after she tried to trap Lee, that wasn’t one of them.”
Then, she put some Black Crowes in the CD player and turned up the volume.
Ally wasn’t one to reflect, she preferred rock ‘n’ roll.
More customers came in and luckily, we were busy enough to keep our minds off the latest disaster.
I was sitting behind the book counter, finishing an emergency order for coffee because if we continued at this rate, we’d run out by the end of the week, when my cell rang.
It was Dad.