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want to hear how amazing it had been, how it was the best thing he'd done since they broke up.  So he spoke a different, balder truth.  "We both wanted that particular itch scratched.  We scratched it, now we can move on."
    She stiffened.  "Move on?  In case you haven't noticed, Luke, I already have moved on.  As have you, I'm sure."
    He hadn't.  Not really.  He'd not dated anyone since their break up, hadn't wanted to.  "I mean move on from here.  Together."
    "Together?"  She picked up his shoes and shoved them into his chest.  "You seem to have forgotten that us being together isn't possible."  She tilted her head to the side and placed a finger at the corner of her mouth.  She was mocking him.  "Yes, that's what you said two years ago.  You and I together aren't possible.  Something about me being the daughter of a thief and you being a ruthlessly ambitious cop and never the twain meeting."  She hooked her foot beneath his shirt and flicked it off the floor, catching it easily and throwing it at him in one fluid move.
    He caught it and opened his mouth to dispute the ruthlessly ambitious part of her accusation but closed it without saying anything because she was right.  He had been both ruthless and ambitious in his pursuit to move up the ranks.  But now he was near the top and the view wasn't as enjoyable as he'd hoped.  Not when he was up there alone.
    "You're right," he said, wishing he could erase all those God-awful words he'd spoken to her two years ago.  "I did say those things.  But I don't think that way anymore."
    "Convenient," she muttered.
    "In what way?"
    "Get dressed."  She glanced at his groin.  "I can't argue with you while that's out."
    He grinned.  "Too distracting, huh?"
    She rolled her eyes.  "Just get dressed.
    He put on his shorts and jeans but not his shirt.  "So, what's convenient about me wanting to be with you again?"  He thought his persistent feelings for her were pretty damn in convenient.  Life would be so much simpler if he'd gotten over her after they broke up.  Instead, it had been filled with lonely nights and no laughter.  He really missed the laughter.  And the sex.
    She crossed her arms.  "Well, since my family's criminal record was the reason for our break up, it seems awfully coincidental that you want to be with me now that my father's dead.  Do you deny that?"
    He couldn't because she was right.  Her father's death did pave the way for he and Lily to have a relationship without compromising himself or invoking condemnation from his superior officers.  "I'm sorry he died, Lil.  I really am because I know how much he meant to you."  He shrugged.  "But you're right.  His death does make things easier for us."
    Lily's face darkened and her lips pursed.  She looked like a bomb about to explode.  She took a step towards him and poked her finger into his bare chest. 
    "You are unbelievable, Luke Tanner."  Poke .
    He caught her hand.  "Does it really matter why we can be together now?  Shouldn't it matter more that we can ."
    When she responded with a shake of her head, he added: "Look, I'm not proud of the fact, but it's the truth.  I thought you deserved the truth."
    "Gee, thanks."
    Crap.  This wasn’t going well.  He needed to undo some of the damage he'd caused.  "Anyway, it doesn't make it completely smooth sailing for us.  There are some other members of your family to worry about.  Don't you have two cousins and an uncle in jail?  And that's only the ones who got caught.  I bet there's a whole bunch of your relatives I should be worried about ruining my career."
    "Ruining your career?"  She spoke low, a dangerous edge to her words.  He got the sickening feeling he'd said the wrong thing.  Again. 
    And here he thought the truth would save him.  He should've known better.  Goddamn truth never got a man anywhere when it came to women.
    "Maybe ruin was too strong a word," he said.
    "So let me get this straight," she said.  He