“What are you doing?” I asked, half-sleepy, half-angry.
“Takin’ you to bed,” he answered, fully awake.
“I’m sleeping on the couch,” I told him as he dropped my legs and stood me at the side of the bed. His hands went to the belt of the robe and he didn’t respond.
“What are you doing?” I asked again.
“Gettin’ you ready for bed.”
“Stop that!” I slapped at his hands and he ignored me so I grabbed the lapels of the robe and held them shut. “I’m nearly na**d under this.”
The belt came loose and he leaned into me. I reared back, nearly toppling on the bed. He straightened and held in front of me what I had, until a few hours previously, considered my confiscated Night Stalkers tee.
Since the likelihood of me winning a physical tussle was in the negative percentile and I was tired down to the bone, I snatched the tee from him and whirled around to give him my back.
I could sleep with him, I told myself as I pushed my head through the neckline of the tee. I’d slept with him the last however-many nights and I’d survived. One more night wouldn’t kill me.
I slid the robe off my shoulders and let it drop to the ground and, as fast as I could, I pushed my arms through the holes of the tee.
I wasn’t fast enough.
Lee’s hands settled on the skin at my hips, just above my panties, as the t-shirt dropped into place, its hem came to rest on his hands.
His chin rested on my shoulder.
“How long are you gonna be mad at me?”
His voice was deep and kind of husky and I felt a quiver in my nether regions.
“Forever,” I answered.
His hands slid from h*ps to belly and he pulled me into his body.
“I can’t discuss clients with you, Indy. I offer confidentiality with my services. I won’t be able to talk about my work, it’s something you’re gonna have to get used to.”
That was hardly the point.
Okay, it was a point, just not the point.
It was my longstanding theory that men missed the point on purpose.
His chin moved to pull the hair away from my neck and his mouth went to my ear.
Then he got to the point.
“You’d been dodgin’ me for a decade and then you presented me with an opportunity to get your attention. I’m not big on missin’ an opportunity, so I took it. It worked. I got your attention. I don’t regret it and I’d do it again, even considerin’ in the process I lost ‘diamond man’.”
Hmm, it was annoying but it was honest and it was annoying because it was honest.
I pushed forward and broke free of his hands, putting a knee on the bed.
I could have pushed the sleeping-on-the-couch business but I feared a wrestling match and he’d already gotten a nether-region-quiver. I’d never survive a wrestling match.
I crawled across the bed and stationed myself at the far edge, pulling the sheet up over me.
I felt the bed move as Lee got in and the light went out.
Then I was hauled across the bed and positioned in the half spoon/half pin he was so good at carrying off.