Their Special Agent by Mel Gough

Author:Mel Gough [Gough, Mel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mel Gough
Published: 2019-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

13

Carrie woke, disoriented. It took her a moment to remember where she was. It took longer to figure out what had woken her.

The light filtering through the slit under the door flickered. Somebody was moving around in the other room!

After a heart-stopping moment her brain supplied that it had to be Jay, who was finally back from the police station. This was his suite, after all.

His suite, and his bed. Also, his boyfriend, still asleep next to her, curled up so all that was visible was a tousle of dark hair peeking from the blankets. She’d refused to think about it while making love to Lou, but now it all came back. This was too weird.

Careful not to disturb Lou, Carrie climbed out of bed. The next challenge was even greater. How to find her clothes in the near-darkness? Recalling the last few moments before they’d tumbled into the sheets, Carrie retraced her steps, slipping on the items one by one. She crouched down to retrieve the Glock from under the bed. Her coat was in the other room. Her second boot remained elusive, until she got onto all fours again and groped under the bed. She nearly gave up on the bra, biting her lip at the image her brain supplied much too readily of Jay finding it the next morning. Then, finally, her fingers brushed against it as she was getting back to her feet. She remembered grabbing it together with the silver T-shirt before they’d moved into the bedroom. She rolled it up and stuffed it into her back pocket, since she was already wearing the shirt.

On tiptoe, feeling her front to make sure she’d zipped up her jeans, and hoping it wasn’t too obvious that she was braless, Carrie made for the bedroom door. But then she hesitated. She had two choices, one as unpalatable as the other: Stay in here and hope that Jay would decide to sleep on the sofa, or face him now. She didn’t think that Lou had lied to her. Jay’d be okay with this. The question was, how okay was she? Carrie took a deep breath and opened the door.

“He’s better then?” Jay’s voice was kind of flat. He sat on the sofa, in the process of taking off his boots. A bottle of beer sat on the table.

Carrie eased the door shut. “He’s fine, yeah.”

“I didn’t mean to wake you. I was gonna crash out here, if you want to go back to bed.” Still with the flat voice, though he didn’t look angry, just exhausted.

“No, I better go back to my room.” Carrie dithered. Should she just leave it at that? “Listen, Jay...Lou and I—”

At the same moment she ran out of words he said, “Oh, hey, don’t worry about it. I’m sure he’s explained how we do things?”

“He has, some of it, anyway.” Still…

“It’s a non-issue.” That didn’t sound convincing, and maybe he noticed, because he continued, “I’m glad he’s better. Thanks for looking after him.”

A hysterical giggle bubbled up in Carrie’s throat, but she bit it back.

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