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the way?”
    “I just checked fares online, it’s really not that bad. Plus, I’m counting on you being in my way for two weeks. How else can I have nonstop sex with you?”
    She laughed. “Thank goodness you only want me for my body.” She paused. “Okay then. My last final is on the 21st. I have the time at work and school won’t start again for a few weeks. They’re keeping me on over the summer but they won’t mind if I take some vacation. I think some time in the sun, being objectified by a hot Irishman is just what I need.”
    “Good. I’ll be sure to objectify you extra hard then. Just so you don’t feel cheated.”
    They rang off and he stared out the window for a few minutes, losing himself in the memory of her. They’d both been very busy since they’d seen each other last, he knew. He’d been rushed off his feet, really building his business, traveling all across the country as well as working close to home and she’d been finishing up her second year of law school and holding down a job on top of that. He knew the second year was the one “they work you to death” in and she’d sounded tired a lot but never discouraged. Even with those extra credits she needed to graduate a semester early to take the bar exam in February instead of July.
    The longer she was in his life, the more her found her ambition wildly sexy. They shared that. He also found himself really looking forward to seeing her again. Being with her seemed like just the right thing to start the summer with.
    “I take it she said yes?” Laura strolled in with Eamon’s brother.
    He jumped. “Jaysus, woman, are you psychic or were you eavesdropping?”
    “A little of both,” Michael said as they put the bags of food down on the counter. “We do get to meet her, right?”
    “Like I can keep Laura away.” Eamon snorted as he put out plates and silverware.
    Laura shook her head and shrugged. “I want to meet the woman who’s kept you from dating since December. What can I say? She’s got to be something else considering the female attention you don’t even seem to notice.”
    “God help the poor girl, he’s going to be all over her for a while if he’s been saving it all up for six months.” Michael ducked the set of chopsticks Eamon threw at his brother.
    It wasn’t like Eamon was going to tell them about the web cam conversations and the rather interesting and totally stellar IM sex they’d shared. He didn’t want to embarrass Cat and after the mess with the ex-boyfriend and the internet pictures, he knew what a huge statement of her trust it was that she not only used the web cam but had done the sorts of things she had. All for him.
    What man wouldn’t eschew other women for that?
    “Christ, man, it’s just six months. It’s not like I’m a monk or anything.” He shrugged. It wasn’t as if they’d forbade the other from dating but he knew she hadn’t been with anyone else either. It had been an unspoken but accepted thing that they were seeing each other, whatever that meant.
    He just smiled as he spooned up the kung pao. There would be two weeks of time in which he could gorge himself on her.
    “So this is getting serious then. Are you going to ask her to move here when she finishes school?” Laura took a sip of her Diet Coke.
    “She has a life in Seattle. A specialized skill. We’ll cross that bridge if it comes to that, when it does.”
    “So you’d move there, then?” Michael asked.
    “He just moved here from Ireland, why should he move to Seattle? Why shouldn’t she move?” Laura asked, her voice sharp.
    “That’s rich coming from you.” Michael stared at his wife.
    “What’s that supposed to mean? She’s young, she’s at the beginning of her career, why should he make the sacrifices? His family and friends are here. It would take some gall to expect him to move again after he relocated already.”
    “It’s supposed to mean I moved from Ireland to LA for you. I was in the middle of my