She started laughing.
He kissed her in the middle of it.
Then they let go, he waited until she went in the back doorbefore he took off.
About an hour later, he got her DoorDash order, ordered itand what he wanted, so it arrived at his place twenty minutes after she did.
They scarfed it down, then spent the rest of the eveningfucking, and after, they passed out.
And in all that, Jag did not reply to his mother’s texts.
He did not reach back out to Tack.
He didn’t connect with Hound or Dutch.
And yeah, that was about being with Archie.
It was also…
Not.
ChapterTwelve
Sleeping Dragon
Archie
They’d made a tent of some sheets and were tangled ineach other and a mess of pillows on a rug on her floor.
It was Sunday afternoon.Jagger was snoozing.On his back.Naked.
Archie was at his side, not snoozing, but also naked.
They’d spent the night before in a B&B in Estes Park.
Now they were home.
And Archie was down with how into each other they were.Howmuch time they were spending together.
They were meant to be, after all.
However…
Lying on her side, up on an elbow, tucked close to him, shestudied Jagger’s handsome face through the fading sunlight coming through thelight sheet.
He was beautiful.
But he looked conflicted, even in sleep.
She trailed her hand up his flat belly to his pec where sheabsently rubbed a thumb across his nipple.
He stirred, turning to her, wrapping both arms around herand pulling her tight, front to front.
“Baby,” he murmured into the top of her hair, “I’m all foranother round.Just give me five more minutes.”
This had not been her intent.
But she didn’t need to explain that because she felt himsettle into her and back into sleep.
