Page 148 of Tenderfoot

He grinned wolfishly at me, and my nipples responded accordingly.

“Okay, we’ll do a fun one,” I whispered.

He dropped a kiss on me, loaded me in his truck and took me home so we could make dinner, unwind and chill out.

And yeah.

We had a bubble bath together.

On first glance, Javi and I didn’t fit real great in his tub.

But we made it work.

Oh yeah.

Boy, did we.

TWENTY

“GIRL ON FIRE”

(ALICIA KEYS)

A throat was cleared loudly.

Javi and I kept making out, standing by the side of his truck.

A throat was cleared even more loudly.

Javi and I didn’t break our clinch.

What sounded like three throats were cleared loudly along with more than one male chuckling deeply.

Then came Jessie’s, “For shit’s sake!”

We broke our clinch.

But Javi didn’t move too far away.

“Be right out here, lil’ mama,” he said quietly.

“Okay,” I replied, also quietly.

He touched his nose to mine (that was new, and so sweet!), let me go, and with a hand on my back, pushed me toward the opened door to Angels Headquarters.

It was the next night.

We’d had a quiet day.

No calls from my mom (and there wouldn’t be, she’d be alternately sulking and playing the victim). No calls from Easton (and there wouldn’t be, because I blocked him). No calls from my dad (this, I had to admit, kinda freaked me, but I’d pressed play on this situation, I had to let the tape run as it would).

Now we were going to have our Angel meeting and Javi was going to hang out, playing bodyguard along with, I saw as I walked the short way to the Headquarters’ door, Cap, Liam, Gabe, Eric and Brady.

They had a couple of six packs and a massive bag from Cane’s.

They’d also come prepared, and they had some fancy camp chairs.

I smelled the chicken goodness wafting from the Headquarters and realized whoever the mastermind was who thought to provide dinner also took care of the Angels.

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