Bump in the Night by Nora Roberts & J. D. Robb

Author:Nora Roberts & J. D. Robb
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fiction:Detective
ISBN: 9780515141177
Publisher: Jove
Published: 2006-03-28T07:00:00+00:00

Seven

They were into their second year of marriage, and being a trained observer, Eve knew when he was irritated with her. It seemed stupid, just stupid to have a fight or the undercurrent of one over something as ridiculous as ghosts.

Still, she brooded over it another moment, on the verge of stupidity. Then she huffed out a breath.

“Look,“ she began.

After a pause, he sat back. “I’m looking.“

“What I’m getting at is… shit. Shit.“ She paced to his window, to the doorway, turned around again.

Rules of marriage – and hell, one of the benefits of it, she admitted – were that she could say to him what she might even find hard to say to herself.

“I have to live with so many of them.“ There was anger in her over it, and a kind of grief she could never fully explain. “They don’t always go away when you close the case, never go away if you leave a crack in it. I got a freaking army of dead in my head.“

“Whom you’ve defended,“ he reminded her. “Stood over, stood for.“

“Yeah, well, that doesn’t mean they’re going to say Thanks, pal,’ then shuffle off the mortal whatever.“

“That would be coil – and they’ve already done the shuffle before you get there.“

“Exactly. Dead. But they still have faces and voices and pain, at least in my head. I don’t need to think about one wifting around sending me messages from beyond. It’s too much, that’s all. It’s too much if I have to start wondering if there’s some spirit hovering over my shoulder to make sure I do the job.“

“All right.“

“That’s it?“

“Darling Eve,“ he said with the easy patience he could pull out and baffle her with at the oddest times. “Haven’t we already proven that you and I don’t have to stand on exactly the same spot on every issue? And wouldn’t it be boring if we did?“

“Maybe.“ Tension oozed back out of her. “I guess. I just never expected you’d take something like this and run with it.“

“Then perhaps I shouldn’t tell you that if I die first, I’m planning to come back to see you naked as often as possible.“

Her lips twitched, as he’d intended them to. “I’ll be old, with my tits hanging to my waist.“

“You don’t have enough tit to hang that low.“

She pursed her lips, looked down as if to check. “Gotta point. So are we good now?“

“We may be, if you come over here and kiss me. In payment for the insult.“

She rolled her eyes. “Nothing’s free around here.“ But she skirted the desk, leaned down to touch her lips to his.

The moment she did, he yanked her down into his lap. She’d seen it coming – she knew him too well not to – but was in the mood to indulge him.

“If you think I’m playing bimbo secretary and horny exec – “

“There were actually a few insults,“ he interrupted. “And you’ve reminded me that you’re going to get old eventually. I should take advantage of your youth and vitality, and see you naked now.

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