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Too exhausted to fly home, Miranda had opted to stay at the team’s Gig Harbor house. Holly had insisted on sleeping out on the couch so that she and Jon could have the privacy of a bedroom.
Despite the harrowing two days and the long morning and afternoon just catching up with events, Miranda lay wide awake at midnight.
Jon slept soundly beside her.
He had gone to some trouble to prove that he liked her in her NTSB clothes, liked taking them off her before introducing her to several new experiences in the shower, and then finally liked helping her to slip on her nightgown. She no longer needed him to explain that each was good but different; he’d proven his point with precise demonstration and a most enjoyable thoroughness.
Though her body was very well sated, she was unable to sto
