He handed her into the banquette seat facing away from the others and slid in next to her, his thigh pressing along hers.
“Nineteen hours,” he remarked, craning his head to watch the rest of the exhausted bunch clamber aboard and find seats. “That gives us plenty of time for some hanky and possibly even a smidgen of panky between here and Houston.”
Lindsey snickered. “But sadly, no spanky.”
“That’s just terrible.”
“Do you think they suspect?”
He followed her gaze to the to Ed and Lin slurping coffee and opening laptops as they warmed up for their first argument of the ride.
“Innocent as lambs” was Ben’s assessment. “But then, I would have thought the same thing about Ivan and Cami before this weekend, so I guess you never really know.”
“True.” She turned to regard him through narrowed eyes. “But you wouldn’t have thought I was innocent as a lamb?”
“Oh, Linds, you were never innocent as a lamb, even with those big blue eyes.” He grinned at her, his eyelids crinkling in that way they did, and her stomach did a flip-flop. She wondered if it always would, when he looked at her like that. She hoped so. “I always knew you were a pervert. I just needed to grow up enough to realize that was a feature, not a bug.”
Nineteen hours could seem like a miserable lifetime or an all-too-short romp in the park. But short as the ride home seemed in comparison to the last trip, there was still time for both hanky and panky.
But no spanky. Until after they got home.
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