“Oh I didn’t see the dogs, as such, I was being eaten by a dinosaur pig—”
“Ow ow!” she howled, her ribs seizing with the laughter and redoubling the inexplicable humor. Her body seemed determined to kill itself with mirth. “I can’t breathe!”
“Try breathing with a dinosaur pig sitting on your chest, waving his junk around in your face. A hundred years ago, he would have had to marry me to keep me honest.”
Oh, now he was just tormenting her on purpose, apparently Andrew found it amusing to make her laugh about his near-death experience when it was absolutely not funny. “Stop, stop!” she squealed.
His words a low, throaty rumble in her ear, and she could only just hear him over her fits of giggles. “I will not. I have an axe to grind. He could have at least taken me to a steak house first.”
She caught his face in her hands, kissed his smiling mouth with her laughing one, gasping for enough air so she could tell him, “That was the bravest noblest sexiest most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.”
“It was instinct. It’s a biological imperative. People protect what’s important to them.”
“So you won’t take credit for it, but I am important to you.” Her laughter had calmed into a gentle chuckle now, and she was aware again of their tangled bodies and a good measure of unfinished business, about sixteen months of unfinished business. She moved, sultry beneath him, to declare her intentions and said, “I’m glad to hear it. I want something from you.”
Andrew’s eyes darkened. He murmured, almost whispered, “Anything, anything, anything.”
“I’d really like for you to read to me.”
Her request surprised him only for a moment, then his face filled with a new expression: absolute delight. He said, “I would love to.”
The End
There will be more.
About the Author
Christina Harlin is the author of the supernatural fantasy series Othernaturals, the books Never Alone and Deck of Cards, the comic romance series of Carol Frank mysteries, the "Boss" books, beginning with My Boss is a Serial Killer. An avid movie fan, she is also the author of Orphans in Space: A Fearless Trek into Bad Sci-Fi Movies. She is delighted to have co-written Dark Web: A Romantic Thriller Parody by Georgia Petherbridge and Carroll Gingham with her son, Jake C. Harlin. You can join Christina and Jake for trips into the bunker of fledgling fiction on Underground Book Club at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvvWGHDQybEYNedWcUbCWcA?view_as=subscriber
Christina lives in the Kansas City, Missouri area, west of the airport where she can watch your flights take off and land.
www.christinaharlin.com
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