Undressed

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HEATHER MACALLISTER

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2018

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They stared at one another and then Lia said, “J.C., it’s time to put your hard drive back into your machine.”

THE FOLLOWING MORNING, Lia stepped next door. She didn’t even have a face-saving pretext. “James?” She confronted J.C.’s sales-associate cousin. “Or do you prefer Jimmy?”

“Oh.” James flushed a deep cherry pink that clashed with the coral shirt, tie and pocket square he wore to prove that men could wear pink.

Lia liked James, but James was not the man to demonstrate any shade of pink whatsoever. But James and pink weren’t the point. His cousin was the point.

James looked ready to bolt.

Lia cut off his escape. “Yes, I have been talking to your cousin. Tell me about him. Hold nothing back.”

Panic flashed in James’s eyes. “Is he bothering you?”

Define bother, Lia felt like saying. “Not yet.”

“Good.” James looked visibly relieved. “He’s visiting for a few days.”

“And?”

“And he’ll be gone soon?”

Lia leveled a look at him. “James, is he sleeping in the back dressing room?”

The panic returned and James went into full defense mode. “He wanted to. I told him he shouldn’t, but he likes the quiet. He says he can’t hear his music when he’s around people all the time.”

Lia thought of the bits and pieces she’d heard through the wall. “Some music shouldn’t be heard.”

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