My heart should be skipping a beat again, but it doesn’t.
I think it’s pretty clear that Harry and I will have no problem sharing his half.
“So. I’ll ask you again, Harry. That thing you do? Whatever prompted you to buy the ticket and give it to the clerk in the first place. It was all it took to set off what I’d call divine fucking intervention,” he says, crossing himself and glancing up.
“The feds are gonna be scratching their heads about it for a long time.”
“Three sacks of trash getting emptied in the same night is kinda unusual,” Harry admits.
“They’re not investigating you, Harry,” he adds. “But theywillwanna ask you a ton of questions. Probably like me, they’ll wanna know more about whatever it is you do. Do you say a magic word, do you close your eyes and think of Jesus, what?” he asks eagerly.
But Harry stays quiet for a while before he says anything.
“Whatever it is— Whatever itWas, Frank. It’s gone now. I felt it leave me last night,” he says. Not sounding upset about it.
And I sure as hell didn’t see anyone come or go, so I still don’t know what he even means.
“Itleftyou….,” Frank echoes back. Sounding like he’s learning a new word.
“Yeah. Gone. Like… Poof!” Harry explains. And I can hear him moving towards the front door, subtly signaling Frank that the meeting’s over.
“Aren’t ya even gonna ask me ifIwant anything?” Frank protests.
And I can almost feel Harry thinking.
“Yeah, Frank. You wanna leave? I gotta go look after Megan some more,” He rasps.
“You said she was sleeping. Plus she’s not in any danger, Harry. She’s free to go whenever she wants,” Frank says hotly.
“Oh, she is,” I hear Harry agree. “But something tells me she might be sticking around for a bit.Call it cops intuition.”
Frank leaves, sounding more annoyed than when he arrived and on his way to his next case, no doubt.
And Harry?
True to his word, he rejoins me in the tub after stepping out of his sweatpants.
That thing he does for me already bobbing to attention and winking at me. Assuring me I don’t have to go anywhere I don’t want to.
And right now, the only place I wanna be is here with Harry.
“You catch all that?” Harry asks, sliding into the massive tub, and resting his huge arms on the sides. His feet reach behind me and using his legs he pulls me closer.
There’s so much of him in and out of the water, I climb up onto him.
Laying my head on his chest and nuzzling into him.
The warm water lapping at us both, as if the man himself is an island.
Both of us shipwrecked and neither of us wanting to leave. Not ever.
“So… What is thatthingyou do?” I ask, struggling to even think about anything when I’m this close to him.
And feeling his own interest in me pulsing white-hot under the water against me, I know his answer is gonna be short.
“You didn’t get enough of it last night?” he teases me, making me groan and bat at his chest.
“It’s finished now, Megan. That’s all you need to know,” he assures me, stroking my hair and squeezing me closer. Kissing the top of my head.