Copyright Suzanne Halliday
Tori was tittering on like a magpie, filling
her sister-in-law in on all the juicy deets of what she’d witnessed in the tech
cave.
“Oh my God, Lacey! It was so adorable. She
walked up behind him, said something and BAM! Two seconds later he was all over
her like a rash. Don’t mind telling you I got a little hot and bothered
watching them. I’ve never seen him like that but oh lord! That man knows how to
kiss a girl.”
“Are you serious? Just like that? Poor Alex.
He’s got it bad, huh?”
Tori plunked down on the sofa and put her
feet up on an ottoman while Lacey curled up the best her pregnant tummy would
allow on the neighboring loveseat.
“I like her, don’t you?” Lacey asked. “She’s
almost like a female version of him if you think about it. Smart. Well educated.
In no way a wimp. And seriously, that body! Holy cow, huh?”
“Well let me tell you something, if you’d
seen the way he grabbed onto her it’d be a safe bet to say he likes the curvy
girl thing very much!”
The both laughed and sighed, the way
girlfriends do when they’re talking about romance. After a few minutes Lacey
got serious.
“So. What do you think? How soon will it take
Big Daddy to screw things up? After all, we’ve both been there, done that with
these Justice Brothers.”
“Hmmm. You have a good point,” Tori replied.
“Draegyn was the Crown Prince of Denial and like you’ve said, Cameron was a
runner. I wonder what fuckery Alex has up his sleeve.”
“Men! Right?”
Lacey chuckled.
“Uh oh. What are you two ladies up to? It’s
never good when I walk in a room and hear my wife chastising the male sex in
that tone.” Cameron smiled indulgently at his Ponytail and leaned over to plant
a quick kiss on her mouth.
“Your old lady and I were discussing Alex,”
Tori told him.
“And Meghan,” Lacey added. “Tori says they
got into a seriously hot clinch up in the bat cave. Lots of touchy feely stuff
and loads of tongue.”
Tori barked out a laugh bigger than her
waif-like body. “Wait a minute! I don’t remember saying anything about tongue.”
“It was implied,” Lacey shot back with a
wink.
Cameron sat next to his wife and put an arm
about her shoulders as he leaned in and rubbed his face against her belly.
“Mommy’s meddling!” he growled against the bump.
“Well someone has to. We were just trying to
figure out how long it’ll take Alex to put his foot in it.”
“It’s complicated,” Cameron replied growing
suddenly serious.
“I’d say that’s interesting brother-in-law
because Meghan used the exact same word when we asked how she knew Alex.”
Cam shot Tori a surprised look. “Really? Humph.”
“Oh my God. You know something, don’t you
honey?” Lacey asked.
He sighed and said, “I know plenty but I’m
not going to discuss it in this ladies sewing circle you’ve got going on.
Besides, Alex is entitled to his privacy, as is Meghan.”
Tori eased her feet off the ottoman and stood
up. “I think that’s my cue to go find my husband and use my powers of
persuasion so he’ll tell me what’s going on.” Looking at Lacey she added, “I
take it you’ll be applying the same pressure to your other half?” At Lacey’s
jerky nod she smiled. “Then we can compare notes later.”
When they were alone, Lacey cuddled close to
her hunky husband and nuzzled her face into his neck. “I love the way you smell
when you’re all hot and sweaty. Did you and Draegyn get the visitors settled in
the dorms? I saw Ria and Ben laying in a ton of supplies yesterday getting
ready for their arrival. Who is it this time?”
Absently stroking his big hand across his
wife’s protruding belly he answered lazily, clearly distracted by other things.
“It’s a rental. Bunch of spooks. They’re using the facilities for their own
refresher training. Not much for Justice to do but provide a place for them to
hole up and plenty of conference space. Let’s not talk business, baby. I’ve got
other things on my mind.” His hand was slowly creeping under the flowing
maternity dress she had on.
“I’m glad you’re home,” she murmured. “Want
your wife to scrub your back in the shower?”
He leered at her as his hand slid down
between her thighs and rubbed against her mound. “My wife can feel free to
scrub way more than my back.”
“Mmm. I like the way that sounds. But first…”
Cameron laughed out loud and grinned at her.
“I knew it! Just lulling me in with sexy promises. Biding your time to ask a
bunch of nosy female questions. Might as well go for it woman so we can move on
to much more pleasurable things.”
She smiled at the man she loved with all her
heart and soul. “Is it so wrong to want everyone to have the kind of happiness
that we do?”
“No. But you’re asking me to talk about
things that aren’t easy to discuss.”
“Understood. I’ll make this easy then. Just
tell me how Alex knows Meghan. That’s enough for now.”
Cameron sighed and put his head on the back
of the loveseat. It was still damn hard to share after a lifetime of brooding
silence. But he was getting better at it. Lacey had healed his broken soul in
every way that mattered. He knew he could trust her completely. It was a great
feeling.
More, we need more!
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