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A grin spread across her lips. Shelby Sutton had missed her calling in life. She could have been an FBI agent or CIA with the way she sniffed out information.
“Mom, I’m a grown woman.”
“Oh, is that how it is?”
The twinkle in Shelby’s eyes made Roxxy bite her lip to keep from groaning. They were as close as mother and daughter could be. Growing up, Roxxy had always shared everything with her. From her first crush, her first kiss, to even the crap Korey had pulled on her.
“You’ve never returned home from an assignment with such a pep in your step.”
Did she want to tell her about Myles yet?
That would mean spilling the beans that she’d had a one-night stand with him—twice.
What would she think?
“Okay, okay, okay.” Roxxy faced her. She would only tell her the PG version of the story just to get her off her back. “You have to promise not to say a word to Dad.”
“I knew it!” Shelby jumped in place with a large smile on her face.
Roxxy rolled her eyes. Looking at her mom was like peering into a mirror that revealed what she’d look like in thirty years.
“I can keep a secret from your father.”
“Calm down, geesh.” Roxxy snagged a kitchen towel and dried her hands. “If you must know, I met someone.”
“A man. I knew it.” Her mother paused, her brown eyes growing wide. “Was he handsome?”
“Yes,” Roxxy sighed, thinking of Myles’s devilish good looks. She couldn’t fight the silly grin from spreading now. Just thinking of Myles had her feeling all giddy inside. “He’s tall, muscular, bald head.”
“I’m liking what I’m hearing so far.”
“Mom!” Roxxy burst out laughing at her mom’s response.
“I may be your mother, but I’m still a woman.” Shelby shrugged.
Jesus, help me.Roxxy closed her eyes, not wanting to go down the train of thought of Shelby being a ‘woman’.
“Too much information,” she muttered, turning back to the sink. She dove her hands in the warm soapy water in search of the next plate. After she’d finished cleaning the dishes she would take Sunshine for a run. Whenever she was gone too many days in a row, her faithful mare knew. Roxxy would have to go groveling for forgiveness. A nice bag of apples always seemed to do the trick. Sunshine would be eating out of her hands in no time and all would be forgiven.
“Hush, girl. Now finish telling me about Mr. Tall and Muscular. What’s his name?”
“Myles Burton. He’s on the SWAT team. Former Army—”
“Any good in bed?”
“Mom!” she exclaimed. She faced Shelby in shock. If she had pearls around her neck, she’d be clutching them now. She stood unable to form any words.
“Now don’t go looking at me like that. You got here somehow, and it was not immaculate conception.” Her mother pushed Roxxy out of the way. She gripped the dishrag from the water and wrung it. She let the water out and hummed like it was any other day they’d cleaned the kitchen together.
“For all I care to know I was delivered by a big white stork.” Roxxy threw her hands up in the air and stepped away from her. There was no way she was thinking of her parents having sexual relations to conceive her.
The stork came, dropped off baby Roxxy Lynn, and that was how it had gone down.
“You still haven’t answered my question, but I already got my answer. It’s written all over your face.” Shelby wiped down the countertops and shook her hand in the air at Roxxy.
“I’m done with this conversation.” Roxxy chuckled. She moved back to the sink and ran the water to rinse out the final suds. They had cleaned the kitchen countless amounts of times tougher, and working beside her mother was second nature.
“I just hope he treats you better than Korey,” Shelby muttered.
