cybervida
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- Parts 8
Rating: Explicit (E)
Warnings: Sexual content, mature themes, suggestive situations, etc.
She doesn't impress Patrick Jane. She unsettles him.
A friend of Teresa Lisbon, she enters the CBI already fluent in the language he speaks best-jokes that aren't jokes, truths wrapped in irony, and conversations that always mean more than they say out loud.
He reads her easily. That's the problem.
Because for the first time in a long time... he can't decide what she's hiding, or whether she's hiding at all.
What starts as mutual curiosity turns into something far more dangerous than either of them intended: recognition. And then resistance. And then neither.
Until a hotel room, a storm outside, and a door that probably should've stayed closed.
Not love. Not yet.
Something that behaves like it.