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ride.”
    “I don’t usually hear that until I make it to the bedroom.”
    Konrad laughed but ignored her plea and strode off in the direction of their building as if she weighed no more than a sack of tennis balls. He added to her embarrassment by whistling.
    “Oh, very nice. What if I have to fart while I’m up here?”
    “Then fart. We’re traveling downwind.”
    Roz giggled and bounced along with Konrad’s long strides. “I give up.”
    “Good.”
    “It’s your hernia.”
    “You’re not as heavy as you think. So many women have negative self-images. You think you have to be bony to be beautiful, when it’s the opposite for most guys.”
    “Oh, really?”
    “Well, I guess I can’t speak for the entire male population, but most guys I know like a little meat on their women.” He patted her ass.
    A passing couple laughed.
    “Oh, for Christ’s sake. Do you have to embarrass me completely and totally?”
    “If that’s what it takes to convince you that you’re ravishing.”
    She sighed. “ Ravage me when we get back to your place, and I might believe you. ”
    Konrad slowed his march. “Did you mean for me to hear that?”
    “Put me down, and I’ll tell you.”
    He quickly set her on her feet and grasped her shoulders to steady her.
    She looked up into his serious face and took a risk. “Yeah, I meant it.”
    He straightened, and his eyes widened. “I’ll race you.”
    They grinned at each other and took off running the final block to their building.

Chapter 3

    Konrad hoped she liked his apartment. He kept it neat enough, but he wasn’t obsessed with cleanliness. If she inspected anything up close, she’d see dust, for sure. If he had only known she’d be willing to come to his home this early in their relationship…
    He had to extract his keys from the manila packet that held his belongings at the jail, one more reminder that he’d been arrested.
    “Are you sure you don’t mind being with an ex-con accused of grand larceny?”
    A door clicked upstairs.
    “I thought you said this was the first time you’d been arrested.”
    Someone appeared at the top of the stairs holding a basket of laundry.
    Roz clapped a hand over her mouth. “ Oh, I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean for anyone to hear that. ”
    Konrad glanced up and saw who stood there. Whew. It’s Morgaine, not Joe, the private dick. “It’s okay. She’s cool. Hey, Morgaine. Come down and meet our new neighbor. She’s a friend of Merry’s.”
    Morgaine smiled, descended the staircase gracefully, and set the basket on the floor. “Any friend of Merry’s is a friend of ours.”
    Roz extended her hand. “I remember you. You were at the wedding.”
    “Yeah, I’m told I’m hard to forget.” They shook hands.
    Konrad was so used to seeing Morgaine in her goth makeup and long black dresses he didn’t think anything of it. Fortunately, it seemed as if Roz didn’t have a major problem with it, either, but wait until she found out Morgaine was a medium and a witch. That friendliness might change.
    He suddenly realized Morgaine may have gotten the wrong impression from his quip, if she heard it. “Did you overhear me kidding Roz about being an ex-con, Morgaine? You know I’m not, right?”
    “Oh, forget it. I’m not even concerned if you are. I’ve known you long enough to know you’re trustworthy. In fact, I feel safer with you around.”
    “That was nice of you to say, especially in front of my new girlfriend.” He placed a possessive arm around Roz.
    She glanced up at him. Surprise registered on her face. He decided to deflect it by continuing to talk to Morgaine.
    “So, what happened was, I got arrested last night, but Roz here is a lawyer and got me off. So I was just kidding her.”
    “Hey, no big deal. You must have been innocent, right? I mean, with your job as a security expert and all, you’d never do anything to jeopardize that.”
    “Exactly.” Hey, that was the truth. I’d never knowingly jeopardize my