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I kick off my shoes and head for the kitchen, wondering if I have any booze. I usually don’t like to drink much but there’s been a noticeable spike in frequency since she came back home.
A long, scratching noise halts me in the hallway. I pause, thinking that I’ve imagined it but it happens again, echoing out from my bedroom. I stand up taller, focusing my hearing until a human grunt touches my ear.
Someone is breaking into my house.
I shuffle on quiet feet, roll my hands into careful fists, and head toward the bedroom. There’s a baseball bat by my bed but that doesn’t really help me right now. I flex my jaw, take a deep breath, and peek into the doorway.
“Ow… Shit.”
I blink. “Jovie?”
I flick on the light and there she is, hanging halfway through my bedroom window.
My jaw drops. “What the hell are you doing?”
She groans. “My foot is stuck...”
I cross my arms and lean against the door frame, amused and intrigued by the cleavage begging to spill out of her dress. “Yeah, I can see that.”
“Will...” She cranes her neck upward and huffs loudly. “May I have your assistance, please?”
I chuckle and step forward. “You know, I have a door.”
“Yes,” she says, clinging to my arms as I wrap them around her waist. “And the town probably has nanny cams set up right outside of it.”
“And your solution was... this?” I pull her through and she lands on her feet.
“Well, yeah.” She pushes her hair back and smiles. “I always used to climb in through your window before. Seemed appropriate now.”
“And no one saw you?”
She shakes her head. “I went out my back door and cut through about twenty lawns to get to yours. No one saw.”
“So... we’re alone?”
“Give it ten minutes,” she says. “If no one calls or bangs on the door with torches and pitchforks, then I’d say we have the rest of the night to ourselves.”
I stare into her shining, devious eyes. “Excellent.”
