Seaborn by Lena North

Author:Lena North [North, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FAB Books
Published: 2018-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

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“Yeah, Nicky, I hear you. I’ll make sure the house is cleaned.” He shifted the phone to his other ear and turned off the main road. “No, I won’t clean it myself, you moron. I’ll ask your mother.”

Nicky laughed, and he heard Snow hiss something in the background.

“No, I’m not gonna ask him that,” Nicky murmured in a muffled voice.

“What?”

“She wants me to ask about your love-life.”

Nicky sounded part appalled but part amused, and Joao grinned as he made another turn to get on the road to his house. Charlie wouldn’t be there because Carrie was visiting so she’d spent the night in Nicholas and Pauline’s house. He missed her when she was gone but loved how happy she’d sounded when he called to say goodnight the evening before.

“Tell Snow I’m happy,” he said.

“Yeah?” Nicky said softly.

“Yeah,” Joao confirmed and added quietly. “Tell her I have what you have.”

There was a short pause, and then Nicky murmured, “Josie…”

“Have to go, see you in a couple of weeks.”

“Yup. I’ll go deal with the puking lady now.”

Snow squealed something that sounded a little annoyed, but a lot happy, and then the call was closed. He grinned as he got out of the car. Carrie was leaving that evening so Charlie would be at his house again. He hadn’t lied to his cousin when he said he’d found what Nicky and Snow had. The way he and Charlie had slid into a relationship was like nothing he’d ever experienced before. It was hot and happy and so damned easy he sometimes just stared at her.

They’d only been a couple for a few weeks, and he got that the newness of it was part of their ridiculous bliss, but it was more than that. Their lives were merging, and he knew it wasn’t fair to his former girlfriends to compare, but he did.

He hadn’t ever dated someone who argued so damned much with him, which was exasperating. Or refused to let him take care of her, which was frustrating. Or communicated clearly to him when he was being a little bit of a jerk, which he could be when he was exasperated and frustrated.

He hadn’t laughed so much with anyone before, though, and for the first time since he became chief of police, he’d also ignored his phone. It had only happened once, he hadn’t been on call, and they had been naked, but he’d been naked with women before and never hesitated for a second to answer if they called from the station. This time, he threw the phone far out over the porch, and into the sand. Later, he’d spent fifteen minutes looking for it, while Charlie sat on the porch steps, laughing at him. When he called the office back, it turned out it had been a bit of an emergency in a domestic abuse situation, but they’d handled it well without him so he guessed that if something similar happened again, they’d be fine then too.

Charlie had started to look

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