Loves Redemption by Kimberly Terry (best novels to read in english .TXT) 📗

“I know that. It’s just…” she stopped when someone knocked on her door.

“Dr. Maya I have brought food for you and Detective Mark,” Jorge said from outside the

closed door.

“I know, baby. I will make it my solemn duty to make sure at every opportunity I give

you as much aid as you need to get used to it,” he finished her sentence with a sexy glint in his eye. He moved his eyebrows up and down in comic relief, forcing a reluctant laugh from her.

Mark placed a quick kiss on the top her head and adjusted her clothes before he moved

her out of the way to open the door for Jorge.

He had to adjust his pants before he opened the door, but he knew nothing could disguise

the large bulge in his pants. Or the small wet spot near his zipper. He did the best he could to hide both by standing behind the door as he accepted the tray from the smiling cook.

Maya walked over to her desk to finish straightening her clothes, as she turned back

around she saw he was in the process of placing the food on the small round table. He picked up one of the steaming plates and brought it over to her desk with a smile.

She accepted the plate, and after placing it on her desk, rose on tiptoe to soft kiss the

corner of his mouth. “Thank you,” she said for both the plate of food and his earlier gift of love.

“You’re welcome,” he answered for both with a toothy male grin. After they’d finished

eating, they settled into their Friday night routine of Maya working at her desk finishing up paperwork, while Mark pulled out his laptop to work.

In companionable silence they worked until she glanced up from her computer as she

closed it down.

“All done?” he asked.

“Yep, all done,” she said in satisfaction.

Friday nights most of the residents were up watching a movie, playing cards, or board

games so the house was noisier than on other nights. As they made their way through the house they said goodnight to those who were still up and to the night guard before they left for the evening.

CHAPTER 28

“Mark, earlier you said something odd happened with Agent Montgomery. What did you

mean by that?” Maya asked, as she emerged from her bathroom, her skin underneath her thick

cotton robe still moist from the warm shower she’d taken.

She walked into the bedroom where Mark sat on the edge of her bed nude. It was a sight

she’d gradually become used to. He was supremely confident in his sexuality and nudity and

Maya agreed he had a right to be.

At her approach he stood up to grab her around the waist and pulled her down on the bed

with him taking the brush she held in her hand and placing it on the pillow beside them.

As she laughed, he took the small towel in her hand away from her, and took over the job

of drying her hair. He placed her in front of him as he did so. She leaned her slight body against his bared chest as he began to dry the excess water from her hair.

“You have such beautiful hair, Maya. It’s so curly and soft.” He worked his fingers

through her curls.

“Umm. That feels good. Growing up, I was teased because of my hair,” she said with

closed eyes, enjoying the feel of his fingers on her cleaned scalp.

“Who would make fun of your hair? Your hair is beautiful as well as everything else

about you.” He picked up the soft bristled brush to run it over the soft corkscrew curls.

“How did it go with Agent Montgomery?” she asked him as he continued to work the

brush through her hair. She waited for him to speak and enjoyed the feeling of his hands on her hair and scalp.

“Well....” he paused to gather his thoughts. “It was strange to be honest with you, just

strange.”

“Really? In what way?” She turned her head around to look up into his face.

He shared with her the day’s events and played close attention to how he explained the

agent kneeling next to the hollowed graves and the intense look on his face, along with the obvious debilitating headache the man had suffered from. After he’d finished telling her she sat quietly for a moment before she said anything.

“That’s different. I’m not sure what to make of it either. Did you ask him?”

“I wasn’t sure how to ask. And besides that, before I could, he told me not to ask.”

“So what do you think it means? It sounds odd to me just hearing it, so it must have been

really odd for you to see it.”

“It was. There was something really strange about the whole thing.” He agreed with her

before he put it out of his mind and leaned down to kiss the side of her neck.

“Before I forget, Mom has invited us out to the house for a barbeque this weekend. Is that

okay?” he asked as he continued to nibble her neck. He stopped his biting caresses when he

received no answer from her. “Sweetheart, is that okay?” he repeated.

“This weekend? What day? I have a new intern to interview on Sunday morning, and I

need to meet with him. I’m not sure I’ll be able to make it,” she said and Mark noticed how she studiously avoided his eyes.

“There’s no set time. It’s really informal; we can work around your schedule. Is that the

only reason you don’t want to go?”

“What do you mean?”

“Is there any other reason you don’t want to go?” he asked again.

“It’s not that I don’t want to go. I don’t know how I feel about it. Maybe I’m a little

scared,” she admitted with a small laugh.

“There’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s a first for me, and I’m not afraid.”

As they’d been talking Maya