Deadly Ever After (Hardy Brothers Security Book 6) by Hart Lily Harper

Author:Hart, Lily Harper [Hart, Lily Harper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperHart Publications
Published: 2015-03-03T08:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

“Do you want to talk about it?”

James glanced up from the magazine he was flipping through, finding Mandy’s blue eyes on him as she stood in the doorway between the bedroom and living room. He dropped the magazine on the nightstand. “Not really. You clearly do, though.”

“We don’t have to,” Mandy said, shedding her plush shark robe on the floor and climbing into the bed next to him. She was wearing his favorite panties, the cotton ones that had the word “Jawesome” spread across her rounded rear, and one of those knit tank tops that clung to her in such a manner that absolutely nothing was left to the imagination.

James reached over, tugging the thin strap of her tank top so he could get a peek inside. “Good.”

Mandy reached up, brushing his hair off his forehead. “You really do need a haircut.”

“I know,” James said, rolling over and resting his chin on her chest. “I’ll get one. I promise. Ally has threatened to do it herself if I don’t.”

Mandy smirked, her hand travelling down to his injured shoulder. He had stopped wearing the gauze two days before, and the wound was healing nicely. In two weeks, it would be nothing but a thin, white scar, and a huge bag of emotional turmoil. Mandy ran her thumb over it thoughtfully.

“What are you thinking?”

“I’m thinking that you’ve had some hard times,” Mandy said. “I never really let myself think about what you went through when you were overseas. I guess I didn’t want to.”

“I guess we’re going to talk about it,” James said, sighing.

“We don’t have to.”

James’ shoulders shook with silent laughter. “If it’s one thing I know about you, you’re not going to just let it go. So, if I want to get you out of that tank top – you know that thing drives me crazy, by the way, so I know that was your plan – we’re going to have to talk about it.”

“If you don’t want to, I understand,” Mandy said. “I can take the tank top off right now. It’s not a big deal.”

James stilled her hands as she reached for the strap. He’d never be able to concentrate if she was naked. “What do you want to know?”

“What aren’t you telling me?”

James furrowed his brow. “I don’t understand.”

“There’s something else,” Mandy said softly. “You told us most of the story, but there’s something you’re holding back.”

“I’m not holding anything back,” James said. “I promise you that. It’s more … I feel guilty.”

“You couldn’t save him, baby,” Mandy said.

“I know that,” James said. “It was either one dead body or four. That’s not what I feel guilty about.”

Mandy waited, running her hands over James’ strong shoulders.

“It’s the other part,” James said. “The part where I haven’t thought about them in years. That doesn’t seem right to me. I mean, we were in a tiny room, practically on top of each other. Jeff’s head was in Tony’s lap when he died. I was holding his hand. How do I forget something like that?”

“You didn’t forget,” Mandy countered.

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