Crossroad Blues (The Nick Travers Novels) - Plot & Excerpts
Her hair was still wet from a shower as she ran her fingers over her guitar's neck and turned its keys. The tiny hairs on her arms were golden and her stomach was as flat as a porcelain plate. She dropped her jaw and pursed her lips when Nick slid back the warehouse door. "Hey, I hope you don't mind. I took a shower and cleaned up the kitchen," she said. "Did you realize you had a jar of preserves that had turned to sugar?" "I didn't know I had a jar of preserves." Nick sat down next to her. She smelled wonderful. He wanted to take the guitar out of her lap, open the tops of the industrial windows, turn out the lights, and make love to her on the hardwood floor until his knees ached. "Where you been?" "Running some errands," Nick said. "Saw JoJo for awhile, but he was acting weird, so I left. Sometimes he's funny when he's getting ready to open. He said he bumped his nose fixing a pipe and wasn't in the mood to talk. Before that, I went down to the Blues Shack." "I would've thought you hated that place." "I met the owner, and I thought it would be in my best interests to keep in touch with him.
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