Chapter 365

"You should have told me you had a cop fantasy," Rooster teased as they lay in bed that morning. Both of them had called in sick to work and dropped Carter off at daycare so they could have the day to themselves. The first thing they'd done was come back and relax under their warm comforter.

She snorted, rolling over so she could face him. "I wouldn't exactly call it a cop fantasy per se. It's just always been a fantasy of you losing that firm grip you always have on your control."

He chose to ignore what she said, because nothing could ever change who he was, and how he conducted himself. He'd had to keep a firm grip on himself for most of his life to make it through what he'd been through.

"What time do we have to go get Carter?" he asked, as he glanced at the ceiling, seeing the time on their projection clock.

"About three, so we have a few hours," she told him, yawning. "I'm so tired. I don't know how you've been keeping this work schedule you've been doing."

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