Page 79 of Deking at Love
“Enough to take care of your dad and Joe?”
“I don’t know if it’ll be that much.”
She paused her folding.“Sam, I’ll get a job and help you with those bills.”
His body jerked with surprise.“You don’t have to do that.”
“I know, but I’d like to help any way I can.I know how important taking care of them is to you, so it’s important to me too.”
“Why did I not take you with me six years ago?”
“Because we were both too immature.It worked out better this way, don’t you think?”
“If you say so.I still feel like we missed out on a lot.”
“It is what it is.So you’re feeling good about this new opportunity?”
“Now that you’re coming with me, it’s taken some of the edge off, so I guess I am.They seem to want me, and that feels nice.”
“Understandable that they do.”
“Is it?”
“It is.You’re a darn good player, Sam, and it sounds like they want to build around you.”
“Kinda does, huh?”His grin widened, and her heart nearly detonated with joy for him.
She reached into her lingerie drawer, and he flicked a finger at her.“Bring that sheer white thing you wore that night.”
“Are we going to have time for ‘sheer white things’?”
Now his grin turned salacious.“We’llmaketime.”His expression shifted again, looking serious this time.“Tell me what went down at the clinic.”
“Apparently, I was not the employee they were looking for.”
“They can’t fire you for that!”
“They didn’t.I was trying to keep it light.”As Angie completed packing, she filled Sam in on the details.
Sam snorted.“Sounds like Attila the Bun set you up.”
“That’s the strangest thing of all.Celia seemed to be onmyside.She said she knew about us all along, and that she didn’t say anything.Didn’t think it was an issue.”
Sam’s eyes popped.“How would she know?”
“Oh gee, let me see.Mightshe have seen you grab my ass or kiss my neck a time or fifty?”
“Nah, I was sneaky.Okay.There’s a possibility.”
Angie burst out with a laugh.“A possibility?”
Sam sprang from the bed, captured her in his arms, and tossed her onto the mattress beneath him.“At least I wasn’t doingthis.”He kissed a sensitive spot below her ear and moved down her neck.
“Sam, stop!We have to get ready to go.”
“I only need five minutes.We have plenty of time.”He kissed her, his tongue delving and exploring, while his hands moved over her body.She surrendered to him, winding her arms around his neck and pulling him close.
Oh, how she had missed him!
