Skin Deep by J.M. Stone

Author:J.M. Stone [Stone, J.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, erotica, humor, adult
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

You know, I realized that time goes a lot faster when you actually allow yourself to have a life outside of babysitting your niece and nephew and living vicariously through your best friend and (sadly) little brother and sister.

Halloween was Friday, which gave me exactly five days to figure out a costume. Allie had decided that she was going to throw a party and costumes were required. I didn’t have a problem with that because, like I said before, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. You get to dress up in whatever you want, be whoever you want, AND you get CANDY! Win-win, baby!

Luke kept asking me what I was going to be, and I had a couple ideas, but I almost wanted to surprise him. That was going to be a little tough, though, because ever since that weekend a couple weeks ago when we carved pumpkins and…well, it was an interesting and very full weekend. Anyway, since then, we hadn’t really spent any time apart. He brought me to work, and somehow managed to schedule his appointments and such at the shop so he would be done at the same time I was. Sometimes we stayed at my house, but generally we stayed at his and Brandon’s house.

Jackson had stayed just a couple days more and then had flown back out to L.A. for work. I made Luke call him and invite him back for Allie’s Halloween Party and he had said he would try, but wasn’t very hopeful that he would make it.

Allie and Brandon have hung out with us quite a bit since that weekend, but I haven’t noticed any real romancing going on. Allie swore that they didn’t even do anything the night she slept in his bed. She confided in me that she felt guilty because Jackson was sitting on the couch right down the hall. I told her she was screwed either way. (Pun intended!) She didn’t find me amusing.

My work phone rang on my desk, breaking into my musings. “Good afternoon, Floyd Grim’s office, may I help you?”

Silence. Then a quick indrawn breath that almost turned into panting.

I hung the phone up after saying hello a few more times. Obviously someone was there but didn’t want to talk. I’d been getting hang up calls or heavy breathing calls for a while, but I really hadn’t thought anything of it because it didn’t happen very often. Here lately, though, I’d been getting two or three a day and it was starting to creep me out.

I mentioned it to Floyd who just chalked it up to pranksters. We’d been pretty busy with clients, lately, and I was swamped, so I didn’t dwell on it.

At the end of the day, I closed up the office and headed outside to meet Luke. Except Luke wasn’t there; Jackson was leaning up against a silver SUV, apparently waiting for me.

“Jacks! Hey! What are you doing here?” I asked him, smiling and giving him a quick hug.

“Luke got held up with a tattoo, so he asked me to come pick you up.

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