Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not nicely. "How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?" Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he expects the well-raised southern belle in me will think eew and back off. Sometimes, I do think eew, but I don't back off. "I'm a spitter, if that's what you're asking." I flashed him a too-sweet smile. "Didn't look that way to me. I think you're a swallower. His tongue was halfway to China and you were still taking it." "Jealous?
Karen Marie MoningHe's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills, same as Barrons did to Mac, and she's falling for it, same as Mac. He's lining up his dominoes, so they fall more easily when he feels like pushing them over, conserving energy so he doesn't have to hunt her when he's ready to kill her.
Karen Marie MoningWhen my faith is getting weak And I feel like giving in You breathe into me again.
Karen Marie MoningI didnโt say, You are such a stuffy asshole. And he didnโt say, If you ever burn one of my quarter-of-a-million dollar rugs again Iโll take it out of your hide, and I didnโt say, Oh, honey, wouldnโt you like to? And he didnโt say Grow up, Ms. Lane, I donโt take little girls to my bed, and I didnโt say I wouldnโt go there if it was the only safe place from the Lord Master in all of Dublin.
Karen Marie Moning