They took turns kissing necks and ears and stubbled chins. He had never found or expected gentleness from Tucker, but here it was, his for the asking. His even if he didn't know how to ask.
Josh LanyonShe went on, “Yes, Porter and I did discuss divorce, and we realized we loved each other too much to do anything so silly.”
“That’s got to be a comfort to you now,” I said. “I can imagine how painful it would be to have someone you care for die with a lot of unresolved --”
“Yes!” she exclaimed. “That is exactly right!” She gave me an approving lashless gaze.
“See, gay guys always understand these things!”
“We’re born with that understanding gene,” I said.
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Emma sat up very straight in the saddle. Her eyes were huge, but she said bravely, “I could do it!”
“I know you can.”
“I wasn’t afraid.”
“There’s nothing wrong with being afraid,” I told her. “It’s how you handle it.
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I gave a helpless laugh. “Damned if I know. I think…we seem to have reached impasse.
I feel betrayed by your friendship with Verlane. I realize that’s not logical. I realize that if I’d made the mistakes Verlane has made, I’d want my friends to stand by me, hope that someone would help me when the time came. I just…”
“What?”
I met his eyes. “I just need to come first for someone, Guy.
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I noticed you right away.” She gave me an approving look. “I like quiet, polite men. And men who wear Hugo Boss. I was hoping you weren’t gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul.”
“Uh…sorry,” I said. “It’s pretty much full-time now. The pay’s not great, but the perks…
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She shrugged another plump shoulder. “I never listened to Porter when he got going.”
Ah. At last. The secret to a successful marriage.
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Look, Paul. I appreciate what you’re telling me, but I gave Jake my word. Not to mention the fact, he’d throw my ass in jail if he found out I tried to go around him.”
“He wouldn’t, you know,” he said. “Jake’s a pussycat.”
Yeah, just a big old saber-toothed tiger.
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I’ve been telling you that you should hire Warren.”
“Nat, I’m not going to hire Warren.”
“Why not?”
I opened my mouth to tell her exactly why not, but as I stared at her too-bright blue eyes and the way her chin was quivering, I chickened out.
“Because…because I promised Angus when he left that he could have his job back.”
“Adrien, he was involved in a murder.”
“But he was very good at alphabetizing.
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Her back to me, she said, “I know what Paul thinks. Everyone thinks I didn’t love Porter, that I just married him for the money, but Porter and I --” She shrugged.
As avowals of lasting love go, I’ve sat through more professional presentations.
But I said, “No outsider can understand a relationship between two people.” Hell, sometimes even the people in the relationship couldn’t understand it.
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Natalie said, “That detective in charge of the case: is he your Jake?”
My mouth dried. The words felt arid and dusty as I forced them out. “Who told you his name?” Like I had to ask.
“Lisa pointed him out on television the other night, and I recognized him as one of the cops who was in here the other day.”
I opened my mouth, and then shut it. Jake had to know he was fighting a rearguard action. And I was through lying to my own friends and family. “Yeah,” I said. “We used to be friends. A long time ago. He’s married now.”
“Bastard,” she said.
I shook my head. “Not really. He never lied to me. I just didn’t ask the questions I didn’t want to know the answers to.
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