See No Evil (Psychic Eye Mystery (Psychic Eye Mysteries Book 17) by Victoria Laurie

Author:Victoria Laurie [Laurie, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Dutch and I drove home that evening without a single mention of the day’s events. I liked that about many of our drives heading home together. Sometimes there was just this unspoken agreement between us that we didn’t talk about work. We talked about us.

Most of those conversations tended toward the distant future—where we’d live when we retired, the places we’d travel when we had the time, who would age more gracefully, (him, like, duh) and who would be the first to shake their fist at a group of kids in the neighborhood and shout, “Get off my lawn!” (me, like, double duh).

Tonight, Dutch kept it light and humorous, by asking, between the two of us, who would be the first to let themselves go. “Totally unfair,” I told him when he posed the question.

“Why is that unfair?”

“Because you’re naturally breathtaking, and I have to work at it, which means I’ll be the first to abandon the effort.”

He chuckled. “Edgar,” he said. “It’s cute you think you traded up, but I promise you, I’m the envy of all my friends, and hands down I win the Trophy Wife award at my regular poker games.”

“You play poker with Brice and Oscar,” I countered. “And as Candice is a whole lot hotter than me, and Nikki also brings an A game to the table, I doubt that’s true.”

“First of all,” he began, navigating that mine field carefully, “Candice is—at best—your equal, but personally, I don’t think anyone can hold a candle to you.

“Second, I wasn’t talking about my poker games with those two, and yes, you’re right, they’re biased, but that’s beside the point. I was referring to the guys in the hood.”

Recently, Dutch had made an effort to get to know our neighbors a little better, and he’d gotten chummy with a couple of guys on our street.

I perked up a little. “You boys talk about how hot your wives are?”

He glanced at me with an Are you kidding? look. “We’re men, Edgar. Of course we talk about how hot our wives are. We talk about how hot any of the women in the neighborhood are.”

I blinked at him. “You think some of the women in our neighborhood are hot?”

He leveled another look at me, but then he softened. “I think some of the women in our neighborhood are attractive, sure, but no one, Abigail, and I mean, no one compares to you. You take my breath away. You make me feel whole. You’re my world. My rock. My day and my night. I love you down to my DNA and even now, ten years on, I still can’t believe how much you turn me the fuck on.”

His eyes were smoldering, and his voice had thickened, hinting at his deep, deep desire for me.

So, in response, I crossed my arms and said, “Which of these women, exactly, do you find attractive, Dutch?”

He sighed and pulled his smoldering gaze away to stare dully out the windshield. “You’re a lot of work sometimes, cupcake.

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