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This one is a set up chapter… yummy stuff will be in the next one….promise….

12 PM

"Mr. Edgesworth?"

He looked up as his lunch was delivered. He didn't dare want to leave his office today. Not only was he extremely tired, but he so desperately wanted to go home. He wanted to pick up Phoenix and drag him into his room. He sighed. He wished he hadn't started thinking about that. He sighed. His own body betraying him in his office.

"Place it over there." He commanded. He normally would have got up and retrieved his meal, but he had to calm himself down, before he could stand.

"Very good sir," the man said and left.

Everything distracted him today. He did not sleep well and now, he could only think about the promise of what tonight was going to bring.

He focused back on work again. It was easy to loose his thoughts in preparing his upcoming prosecution case.

"Miles Edgesworth?"

He looked up to see Franzesca standing in the door with the whip in her hand. "Franzesca?" He inquired.

"You have not left your office all day." She said sharply.

"I have been busy," he said simply.

"Humph," she said and invited himself in. "I have some new for you."

"What is it about?" he asked as she made herself comfortable on his couch. Which meant that she was sitting ramrod straight and her whip resting on her lap.

"It is about your little foolish fool of a friend, Phoenix." He felt himself tense as she said that. Did she know already?

He looked at her sharply. "What about him?"

"I heard that the foolish fool was trying to get back in as a foolish Defender again," she laughed. "You may have to see him in court again. The foolish fool."

He was relieved that is what she came to him about. "I already knew about that Franezca." He said simply looking at his papers and realized that he had no idea where he was going with the paperwork. Did he just waste two hours. He frowned at the papers.

"You already knew?" she said. "How?" she cracked her whip in demanding the answer. Like how she usually did.

"He told me," he said simply. He saw no point in lying to her about it. She would find out sooner or later. He was not about to divulge anything further to her. Nothing more than a comfort and make out session had occurred. So far.

"Told you?" she said with a smirk. "You were talking to that fool?"

"We had a conversation, yes, and it came up," he said. Never mind that he was half naked in his kitchen and Phoenix was wearing bunny slippers.

"I just found his out, Miles. When did you have this conversation? And why did you not tell me?" She demanded.

"I did not think that it was significant," he said, well aware that it was a bold face lie. It was significant, but he had other thoughts and desires that were more pressing on him right now.

She snorted. "You are awfully distracted today, brother. Did you sleep well last night?"

She knew of his nightmares. The marks on his lower back, from her whip was an attempt to get rid of the nightmares and the pain that they both were having at the time.

"No," he simply said. "I am trying to work."

"Don't take me for a fool," she said. "You have accomplished nothing today as well as neglected your lunch."

He looked over at his unfinished food and sighed. He really should have called in sick; he could be in bed with Phoenix nuzzling his neck. He really had to learn to get those thoughts out of his head. It was making him want to see him sooner than the end of the day would allow.

"Are you bothered that he will be sitting across from you in court again?" she asked. She looked like she was certain that was what distracting him. That didn't bother him at all really. The thought of fighting in court was tantalizing. He smirked at the thought.

She just looked at him. "You are such a fool. A complete and utter foolish fool." She stood and left.

Now his thoughts were even more distracted. The thought of how they used to fight in the court room with the thought of what it would be like once they got back to his place. He groaned and shook his head. He was utterly enthralled. He would have to ensure that they did not go into court together.

"Daddy!"

"What?" Phoenix said as he frantically was cleaning the apartment. He wasn't a slob, but he had to keep a good impression up for Miles. He already had everything ready to go for the meal that he was going to prepare for him.

"You are jumping around to much. Calm down. Daddy2 won't care about the dust bunnies in my room. Relax," she said. "Maybe you should have a nap. You look tired."

"I am way too wired to sleep," he said but then found that he was yawning after that statement. "I have more stuff…"

"Daddy. I will finish up, before I go met mom and Apollo for dinner. I will wake you up before I go," she said.

He sighed and looked at her.

"Why aren't you in school today again?" he asked.

She smiled. "PD day. It is on the calendar on the fridge."

Yeah, she did. He nervously looked around his untidy home and after seeing how large and clean Miles place was, he felt like he would not be good enough for him.

"You are thinking silly thoughts. Okay. So now, you are going to bed and you are going to sleep. I will wake you before I leave so you two can have a romantic dinner together."

He let himself be dragged into his own bedroom. "But…"

"Daddy."

Sometimes he wondered who was the parent in this family. He certainly didn't feel like the daddy right now as she told him to go have a shower and then go to bed.

He obeyed.

He turned on the shower and stood under the spray, and all he could think about was Miles and how he looked relaxing on those magenta pillow in his room in a simple pair of white boxers.

His body started to betray him. He tried to concentrate on washing his hair, but then he remembered how Miles hair felt. He remembered how good it felt to kiss his neck and listen to that low groan that he didn't he realize he was making. How Miles had teased him while they got dressed to leave and even darted in for stolen kisses as they walked out the door.

Man, he hurt.

He looked down at himself and thought about relieving himself, but that wouldn't have been fair to Miles. He had to go to work after the morning that they had. He would be just as anxious when he arrived for a meal.

He stayed in the shower until it got cold, so that he didn't walk out with a hard-on. He obeyed his daughter and crawled into bed and dreamed of Miles.

…tbc….

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….more juicy details in the next part…