She let it go.
So yeah.
There was relief.
But underlying it was something else.
Because he knew it was only a reprieve.
Jag came back to the bed after going to the bathroom tosplash his face and rinse off.
He had Archie all over him since he’d finished her off goingdown on her.
She was on her side in his bed, cradling his sheet betweenher legs, bare hip and leg exposed, she still had on her black bra.
He slid in behind her and touched the strap of the bra.
“Want this off?”he murmured.
“Mm,” she hummed, shifting enough he knew to reach in frontof her and unhook the clasp between her tits.
He did that, slid the bra off and tossed it aside, seeinganother one of Archie’s tats.
He bent in to look closer at the small writing that wentacross her side, where the band of her bra had covered the skin.
It said,The Girl Across the Way.
He palmed it and growled, “Baby.”
“Bet you wish you didn’t just make me come hard, boyfriend,and bought me too many cocktails,” she whispered, gazing smugly and sleepily athim.
He dropped his head and kissed the tat.
Then he pushed up and kissed her.
She near to Christ fell asleep on him while he was doing it.
“Too good with your mouth,” she mumbled when he broke thekiss.
Which meant he was grinning when he turned out the lights.
He settled in behind her in a spoon, top arm wrapped aroundher chest.
The arm he shoved under her was wrapped around her ribs.
And his hand was onThe Girl Across the Way.
Chapter Ten
Unhurt.Unstruck.Unbeaten.
Jagger
Sunday morning, early, his alarm went.
Jag opened his eyes, reached out, and came up empty.
He pushed up to a hand in the bed and looked around theroom.
