Feels like Rain (Lake Fisher 3)

He picks my hand up and licks the sauce from the back of it.

He’s laughing until he hears the hitch of my breath. Then he freezes. “Something wrong?” he asks, a slow quirk forming on his full lips.

I pull my hand back and swallow. “No, nothing’s wrong.”

“Uh-huh,” he says. He shoves his chair back. “I’m going to go take a shower really quick.” He kisses the top of my head as he brushes past me. “Be right back.”

I grab my phone and walk out onto the porch. “Hey, Gran,” I say when I hear her answer.

“Make it fast, Abigail,” she says. “My stories are on.”

“Hit pause, Gran,” I reply. “It’s the little button that looks like a sideways equals sign.”

“Oh, okay.” She waits a beat. “There. How do I start it back?”

“Hit it again.”

“It better work,” she warns. “What are you doing?”

“Gran, did you check the mail today?”

“Yes.”

“Did I get anything?”

“Yes.”

“From where?”

I can hear her sorting through paper. “Looks like a credit card bill. And a letter from a doctor’s office.”

“Can you open that one for me and tell me what it says?”

When I called the doctor’s office earlier today to get my test results, they’d said they couldn’t tell me anything over the phone but that an official result would arrive in the mail.

I hear her tearing into the envelope. I hold my breath.

“All negative, Abigail,” she says after a minute of reading. “All negative,” she says again.

“Oh, thank God.” I lay my head back against the wall and stare up at the stars.

“You happy?” Gran asks quietly.

“Very.”

“Then I’m happy for you, Abigail.”

“I’ve got to go, Gran. I have a hot man in my shower and he’s naked.”

“Use a condom, Abigail.”

“Yes, ma’am,” I reply with a giggle.

“Love you, Abigail,” she says quietly.

“Love you too, Gran.”

I hang up and dash through the house, pulling off my clothes as I go. I can hear the water running in the shower as I walk into the bathroom. Steam rises over the top of the curtain, and I can hear Ethan humming. I slide the curtain back and step in behind him, completely naked. He must feel the coolness enter the small space because he turns to face me, and his eyes go wide.