CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
May 16, 2015
7:45 P.M.
McCall, Idaho
Lott managed to get himself naked and toweled off pretty well and then had a towel around his waist when Julia came out of the bathroom. Getting out of the wet clothes and dried off had helped the chill some, but not all the way.
She had a towel wrapped around her and her skin looked almost pink from the warm water. She was drying off her hair as best she could with another towel.
“All yours,” she said, smiling at him as he stared at her.
“You are really the most beautiful woman I have ever seen,” he said. He was stunned. He loved her as a person, but now he was seeing the more personal side of her and discovering she was even better looking than he realized.
She beamed and seemed to get a little redder in the face. “I’d kiss you after such a nice comment, but chances are your skin feels cold and slimy and I’m just not into that.”
“Hold that promise of a kiss,” he said, moving past her and into the steaming hot bathroom. “I’ll be all hot and squeaky clean in a minute or two.
She laughed as he closed the door slightly and then stepped into the shower, letting the hot water take away some of the aches.
Finally, after he had rinsed every bit of the lake water from his hair and body and soaped twice, he turned off the shower and used another fresh towel to dry off.
Then wrapping the towel around his waist, he opened the bathroom door. “Want to share a hair dryer?”
“Perfect,” she said, coming back in and standing beside him as he first did a quick run on the dryer through his hair, then handed it to her.
He stood there staring at her as she used her fingers as a comb through her long hair. Her body moved perfectly under the white towel and he wanted to watch this sort of thing every morning.
There was a knock at the door. He kissed her on the shoulder and went back out into the living room area of the big suite and opened the door, making sure his towel wasn’t showing anything that shouldn’t be shown.
Doc and Ben came in carrying trays of hot drinks and a couple of boxes of hot food and pastries. The wonderful smell of hot chocolate hit Lott instantly as Doc passed him.
“Fleet says he’s ten minutes out,” Doc said. “So we’ll set this up here and when he gets here with the clothes we’ll all meet in here to figure out where we go next.”
“Hot chocolate and a doughnut first,” Lott said.
“Double that,” Julia said, coming out of the bathroom holding her towel up to make sure it stayed in place as well.
Ben worked quickly to pour them both hot chocolates out of a large thermos while Doc poured a cup of coffee from another one and grabbed a breakfast pastry for Annie and headed next door.
A moment later he was back pouring another hot chocolate and grabbing a doughnut for Agent Munn.
Lott let the hot chocolate take the last of the chill from his back and stomach and then a bite of the cake doughnut made his stomach really happy.
Julia smiled at Doc and Ben. “Thank you.”
Then with her doughnut in one hand and her hot chocolate in the other, she headed back to the bathroom and closed the door to work on her hair some more.
“Hope putting you both in here together was all right,” Doc said, smiling at Lott.
“Just perfect,” Lott said.
And it had been.