“Is this a bad time?”Jen asked.
“No. You’re fine. I’m just about to make some lunch,” Lauren told her. “Is Jenks using the paw?”
“Yeah, and the bleeding stopped, but…”
“Just watch him. If he doesn’t act bothered by it, you don’t need to take him to the vet,” Lauren told her. Her cat had a habit of sneaking out and picking fights, and George the terrier was far from his first sparring partner.
“You’re sure?”
“Positive,” Lauren assured her. “Is everything else okay?”
“It’s all business as usual,”Jen said.“Nothing exciting to report. How about you? How’s it going there?”
“It’s going well,” Lauren said. She smiled as she looked at Grey, who had the first aid kit on the peninsula counter. Grey's injured leg was propped on a barstool, and she was cleaning it with what looked like a damp paper towel. “Really well.”
“You got laid,”Jen said, her tone both amused and congratulatory.“Who’d you bone?”
“I did not…” Lauren started to argue.
“Not buying it, I know that voice,”Jen interrupted her.“So, spill. Who? When? Was it good?”
“You should not be this invested in my personal life,” Lauren pointed out.
“Shush. I’m married. I gotta live vicariously through you. So…tell me!”
“I can’t,” Lauren said in a low tone that she hoped would not carry. “She might hear me.”
“You boned one of the guests on the boat? Wow, talk about full-service!”
“I did not bone a guest. It’s a married couple and their three small boys…don’t be gross.” She sighed and, knowing that Jen was not going to let the matter drop, added quietly, “It was Grey.”
“The captain? I thought the captain was a guy?”
Lauren hummed under her breath as she looked at Grey. “Mmm, no. Grey is definitely a woman.”
“Well, then…was it good?”
“Incredible.”
“Is she hot?”
“Gorgeous.”
“Am I going to get more than a one-word answer out of you?”
Lauren smiled and shook her head. “No.”
“Will I at least get to see a picture of her when you get home?”
“Sure.”
“Sweet!”
“You’re ridiculous.”
“You love me,”Jen retorted.“And that was two words, so feel free to speak in complete sentences now. So, besides banging the super-hot captain, anything else happening?”
Lauren shook her head as she watched Grey finish bandaging her leg. “Not really. Am just enjoying a lot of fresh air.”
