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              Brad slowly sits her down on his bed. The only light they have is from the full moons glow coming in from the window just above his headboard of his king sized bed. She takes off her shirt while he watches standing they’re not making a sound only quivering. Then she removes her bra. Still no talking, Brad removes his shirt and lies it on the floor and doesn’t take his eyes off of her as she lies back on his bed and unbuttons her jeans. Brad’s body is aching. He’s so aroused that it hurts. The feeling is weakening his body; he’s in a place he hasn’t been for years sexually and emotionally. The feelings are mixed. She slowly begins to pull down her jeans until they’re at her ankles. Jenny leans up and removes her shoes and then finishes taking off her pants. He looks at her as she lies back and starts to pull down her underwear. She’s gorgeous, he thinks as he gazes at her naked body lying back on the end of his bed. The soft glow of the moon casting a dim romantic light on her perfect body looks heavenly as she scoots back slowly to lie her head on his pillows. Brad finishes taking his pants down. She’s lying there looking so beautiful. Eyes so green and gorgeous you can almost make out the color in this romantic darkness. He moves to the edge of the bed and starts to crawl toward her as she begins to spread her legs slowly. Brad comes to rest on top of her, he touches the side of her face and they begin kissing as he moves his hips in between her open thighs...

CHAPTER 13

BRAD WAKES UP FRIDAY MORNING

             
The sun starts to shine through the window, casting a shadow on the edge of the bed. He tries to focus his eyes finding himself in the same position he was when he fell asleep. Jenny’s leg is still on top of his midsection and he’s on his back, both of them completely naked. He usually tosses and turns at night but last night he didn’t move an inch.

              She’s still asleep so he tries to move quietly to avoid waking her. He rolls to his side and gently moves her leg. Her breathing picks up and he stops. Sound asleep, he hopes not to wake her. Brad continues to slowly remove his body from beside her to get focused.

              Once out of bed Brad walks over and retrieves his underwear. He puts them on and looks for a new pair of socks in his dresser. Emotions are running high as he glances over to the bed and sees Jenny lying on her side naked and at the same time seeing a picture of his wife on the nightstand. Brad looks away. Not sure what to be feeling, the only thing that makes sense is guilt. He feels like a man that just cheated on his loving wife.

              Brad puts on his socks and his dress pants he takes from the closet. He’s finding it hard to look at Jenny while he gets dressed at the foot of his bed. He’s finding it
even harder
to not look.

              Beautiful and sexy are the two best words to describe Jenny’s appearance. Beautiful and sexy are the two best words to describe her personality. The few times they have spent in each others company have been extremely satisfying for Brad, emotionally and physically.

              Even if you took away the wonderful love making from the previous night, she’s warm and considerate as well as funny and smart. Brad feels that she’s someone he’d like to get to know better, quite possibly a lot better. She’s the kind of woman from the standpoint of a man that if you took away the looks she definitely has the personality. Take away the personality, you wouldn’t even care. Beautiful long red hair that’s full of body and thick, she’s 5’6” of gorgeous soft skin, all women every inch of her gorgeous shapely body. Green eyes that look right through you and a body that would make a dead man rise from his grave.

              Brad sits on the edge of the bed and contemplates what to do with the sleeping beauty. His first instinct is to get a chair and watch this gorgeous woman continue to sleep on his bed, a vision that’s especially pleasing to the eyes. Realistically, he looks at his watch and realizes that he has to pick up Todd for his meeting with Mr. Stein at the second precinct in an hour. Sleeping like a baby he hates to wake her. But it would be ruder on his part to just leave her there without saying anything, which is not an option.

              After completely getting ready to go, Brad walks over to the bed. He makes the short walk take longer to absorb a few more moments into his mind of that perfectly round and gorgeous backside of hers as she rolls to her stomach showing off unintentionally, what God himself would call one of his greatest creations.

Brad slowly sits down and places his hand on her lower back. “Good morning.” He gently rubs her back as the sun starts to peek its way out a little bit more giving the room a soft glow of mixed darkness and sunshine. “...Jenny hon.”

              Jenny starts to move slightly as she feels his hand and hears his voice. Her hair’s a mess, but extraordinarily sexy. Brad reaches up and softly touches the side of her face with the back of his hand. “Good morning.”

              Jenny slowly opens those piercing green eyes and forms a smile on her sexy full lips. “Hi.” She whispers and moves her naked body over to where he’s seated and curls up against him. “How are you doing?” Jenny whispers as he leans down and kisses her on the forehead.

              “I’m real good. How are you?” Brad asks as he rubs the side of her face smiling from ear to ear.

              She stretches and works to focus her eyes rubbing the sleep out. “You’re already dressed. What time is it?”

              Brad looks at the nightstand and tells her. “It’s only 7:03.”

              “You like to get up early don’t you?” She continues to stretch and yawn.

              Brad rubs her back and explains. “Yeah-sometimes…”

              Jenny wonders. “Why so early today? Why don’t you crawl back in bed with me so we can cuddle for a while?”

              Brad smiles as she stretches big and hard and he watches the muscles in her legs and backside contract.

“I’d love to,” He glances again. “…You can
believe
that, but I have to meet my partner this morning.”

              Jenny lies there trying to wake up. “What for, can’t you do it later?” She asks with a sort of whine in her already sexy voice.

              “Actually it’s pretty important. We have to talk to someone this morning about that case that’s all over the news. The one that’s been taking up all of my time. It’s an important witness. I need to go.” Brad explains to her silently wishing they were doing this morning what they did last night. He gets a slight erection watching her naked body stretch on his bed.

              Jenny rolls closer and wraps her arms around his stomach. She looks up and smiles shyly as she feels with her arm that his keys aren’t the only things in his pocket this morning taking up room. “It seems that
part
of you wants to crawl back in bed with me.” She winks as he timidly looks away.

              Brad jokingly pats her on her butt. “That
part
doesn’t pay the bills. I need to go be a cop, that‘s how I make my money.” He smiles and stands up. As he does he keeps his back to her and tries to casually rearrange himself to avoid looking like he’s trying to hide a flashlight in his pants.

              Jenny notices that he’s rearranging himself. “That
part
might not pay the bills but my GOD it does great work.”

              Brad starts to feel embarrassed. “Very funny…” He walks into the bathroom.

              Jenny sits up and covers herself with a pillow as she sits Indian style against the headboard. “So just what are planning to do with me?”

              Brad walks back out putting on his watch. “What are you talking about?” Brad asks her as he sits in the leather recliner that faces the bed and starts to lace his black leather dress shoes.

              “Well if you’re leaving shortly what am I suppose to do?” Jenny smiles at Brad looking prettier by the minute.

              “Oh shit, I forgot we drove my Jeep last night didn’t we,” Jenny nods her head. “Well,” Brad sits there and looks up at the ceiling. “Well, I guess there are two options. One, I could take you back to your hotel before my appointment. Or second, I could just take my son’s car to work and you can use my Jeep today.” Brad finishes tying his shoes and places his hands on his knees and smiles. 

              Jenny nods her head. “I guess. But if I take your Jeep then you’d definitely have to see me tonight to get your Jeep back.”

              “That’s the one I was hoping you’d choose.” He looks away.

              “Were you?” Jenny smiles.

              “Um huh, and you know something else. This thought just entered my mind,” Brad stands up and walks over to the bed. “I’ll leave you my keys and you can just make yourself at home here,” He looks out the window and clears his throat slightly and nervously continues. “and you were saying last night that you were going back home in less than a week, well...instead of you wasting your money at the Marriott you could just spend the last few days of your vacation here with me, I mean…if you wanted too of course. You’d save quite a bit of money that way.” Brad nervously looks away.

              Jenny smiles and tilts her head. “I’d save a lot of money that way huh?” Smiling and nodding her head.

              “That place is expensive. Plus I was going to ask you to go out with me
every
spare moment I had,” He smiles and sits on the edge of the bed. “…so you’d also be doing me a favor by staying here.”

              Jenny nods her head. “With the high cost of gas you’d save a fortune if you didn’t have to drive all the way down town to pick me up. Yeah, that is a good point.” She smiles and tells him. “You are such a sweet man Detective Jostler. What am I going to do with you?”

              Brad reaches over and takes a hold of her hand. “I don’t know.”

              Jenny takes his hand and places it on her face. “I think I like that plan the best.”

              Brad kisses her hand. “I‘m glad…”

              He stands up and looks into a full-length mirror on his bathroom door and adjusts his tie. Jenny lies back down and asks him as he turns off the bathroom light and she pulls back the blanket. “Are you guys getting closer to solving the case? You said you‘re talking to a witness this morning.”

              Brad sits down. “Maybe, we still have some other leads to check on but I think were getting closer each day.”

              Jenny grins and tells him. “I hope you do real soon. It’s scary knowing that there’s someone out there doing all the things they’re doing, it makes me feel scared every time I’m alone.”

              Brad smiles and leans down and gives her a soft kiss on the cheek. “Don’t ‘
you’
worry about anything; I’ll protect you.”

              Jenny hugs him. “I know you will. I feel so safe when I’m with you.”

              “My keys to the house are right here…” He points to the dresser. “…I just have the key to the house and the key to the Jeep. That way you don’t have to try and figure anything out. I’ll see you tonight.” Brad walks toward the open landing to walk down the stairs and turns.

“Make yourself at home.”

              Jenny smiles, “Hey Brad.”

              He stops at the top of the landing. “Yeah…” He looks over to the bed smiling.

              Jenny lies back down and looks away. “You...you…don’t have any regrets about...last night, you know about what happened, do you?” She doesn’t look toward him awaiting his response.

              Brad smiles and stands there. He shakes his head from side to side and says. “No, not at all.”

              Jenny smiles and covers herself up while he looks at her. She looks up briefly then back down. “Ok, I just wanted to know.” Brad smiles again and continues down the stairs holding his keys.

BRAD DRIVES TO TODD’S HOUSE TO PICK HIM UP

             
Brad has an extra hop in his step this morning. The usual stress and pressure from his job and the case has taken a backseat after his night with Jenny. He feels like he’s in high school again and the varsity cheerleader has a crush on him. It feels nice.

              He’s still trying to fight through the guilt but at this time
that
has also taken a back seat. Todd’s expecting him and although he’s about to explode from the excitement he doesn’t think he’s ready to share this with anyone, at least not yet. As a law enforcement agent he must put the case and his job above and beyond any personal feelings he has right now to keep everything in the proper perspective to maintain a level of professionalism and quality that his type of work not only
requires
but
demands.

              Brad pulls up in front of Todd’s house and slightly taps the horn. Todd almost immediately comes walking out carrying his coffee in one hand and his briefcase in the other. Todd’s wife leans out the door and waves at Brad and says. “Bradley bring him home at a decent hour tonight.”

              Brad leans over and yells back. “I thought you’d like it better if I kept him gone more often.” He smiles.