Otherworldly Bad Boys: Three Complete Novels (108 page)

I awoke to the noise of my window opening.

I sat straight up in bed.

Vigil climbed inside, dark as a shadow, lithe as a cat.

“What are you doing here?” I whispered.

“I just busted some criminals,” he said. “Thought you might want to write an article about it.”

I clutched my covers tight. “I thought you retired. I thought that you didn’t need to catch anyone except The Phantom.”

He crawled up the bed, snatching the covers away from me. “Well, I’ve been thinking about that. And… I don’t know. It just seems like maybe this city could still use someone like me. And I kind of miss it. So, tonight, I just thought I’d put the costume back on for old time’s sake.”

“Oh,” I said.

“Can’t you see the headline? ‘Vigil Returns’?”

It did have a certain ring. “Well, okay. I guess that makes sense. And I think Henry might like that story.”

He grinned. “Good.” He ran his hand over my bare thigh, all the way up to the edge of my white t-shirt. I still liked to sleep in that. It was comfortable. “Don’t you ever wear actual clothes that cover any meaningful parts of your body, Cecily?”

I slapped his hand away. “I thought you wanted me to interview you.”

“We could call it that if you want,” he said, putting his hand back, sliding it up over my belly.

I gasped.

“Shh,” he said. “You’ll wake up your roommate.”

I ran my hands over his shoulders, encased in their black spandex. “Well, I have to admit, I kind of missed the costume.”

“Admit it,” he growled in my ear. “The mask turns you on.”

“The mask turns me on,” I breathed.

“You know what turns me on?”

“What?”

“You,” he whispered, and his gloved hand traveled higher to close around my breast.

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