Boomtown by Lani Lynn Vale Page A

smell.” I said distractedly while still smelling him.
      “Weirdo.” He said but didn’t make me stop. 
      “Yes, this is one of the more normal things that I do.  Just you wait.” I smiled and said. 
      “I will wait with bated breath.” 
      “I also like the smell that comes out of the air conditioner just after you start the truck.”  I said.
      “What smell? There is no smell.” He asked. 
      “There is too!  I’ll point it out to you next time!  MAX!” I yelled
      Max came out of the office and said, “What?”
      “Tell Sam that there is a smell that comes out of the air conditioner right after you start the truck.”
      “Please God, not this argument again. Listen Sam, just say that there is.  She and Ember argue about this at the beginning of every summer.  It also gets physical.  There is hair pulling, and name calling.  It really isn’t worth it.  Just say that there is.” He said rather emphatically. 
      “You can suck it, Max.” I said turning around to stomp off, but a hand came around me and pulled me roughly into a hard body. 
      “No one sucks you but me.” He growled into my ear.
      I shivered and turned in his arms to give him a kiss.  Then I remembered the red car. 
      “Ummm, on the way here there was a red car following me.” I said gently. 
      “Yes, I know.  Jack already reported it.  We will run the plates when Elliott calls us back.” He said, but before I could ask why he would already know, his phone rang.  He answered while grabbing my hand and pulling me into the office.  Sam spoke for quite a while in between bites of tacos.  I ate mine, and glanced through the office window to the truck to make sure Janie wasn’t awake every couple of minutes or so.  After about twenty minutes, I forgot about wanting to ask him about how he already knew, and instead focused on playing angry Birds on my phone.  
      His phone call ended about an hour after I arrived.  I was reading a new erotic romance novel by that time.  When I had looked up earlier, he was sorting through some papers at his desk, but not even two seconds later I noticed him reading over my shoulder.  I didn’t actually realize this; otherwise I would have closed the book because I was in a particular steamy scene with two couples having sex.  While in the throes of some steamy sex, the hero was asking the heroine if she had ever had anal sex, and I started squirming in my seat.   
      “Do you want to do this?” Sam asked from close behind my right shoulder.  
      I squeaked and spun around in the chair to see Sam squatted down beside my chair just enough that he could read what I was reading.   My face flamed and I just stared at him in shock. 
      Finally able to find my wits, I said “Want to do what?” 
      “What that couple was about to do in that scene.  Is that something that interests you?” he asked a different way. 
      I thought for a couple minutes about what he was asking.  Was I interested in that?  I sure didn’t mind reading about it, but actually doing it?  Who the hell knows? 
      “Umm…..I don’t really know.  You are the sum of my sexual experience.  I really wouldn’t know until we tried.” I finally admitted. 
      “I’ll keep that in mind.” He said while grabbing my hand and pulling me into the shop. 
     We eventually wondered over to the bike that he was working on, and I sat on the seat while he worked on what looked like the engine.  Most likely I was in his way, but that didn’t seem to bother him.   
      I was asking him about what he was doing when Janie woke up with a wail.  I moved to get up when Max came from somewhere on the other side of my truck and got her out.  I walked to the office to get the taco that we’d saved for her, and walked back out to Janie and handed it to her. 
      We all laughed when she bit into it and it fell to pieces, luckily she was on top of the tool box with a napkin