Chapter 31
Miranda smiled and replied, "You've done it now! Just wait until I tell Nora."
"How can I stop you from telling her it was me that made the slip?"
"You might try by bribing me with your share of the brownies," she laughed.
"Anything! Anything!" AJ promised. "I never knew a JAG Judge could be bribed so cheaply."
"Don't tell your attorneys and we'll keep this our little secret. I don't think my waistline could take that many bribes."
"I think your waistline looks just fine," AJ replied giving her the once-over.
"You're just being a gentleman, AJ, but I thank you anyway."
"Now we've already been through this and you know you're a very attractive woman."
"You have a way of making me feel that way when you look at me with your delicious chocolate brown eyes."
"Woman, I believe you still have those brownies on your mind," he teased.
"Guilty as charged, councilor. What's my punishment?"
"You must feed your hungry males now!" ordered AJ.
"My hungry males…that has a nice ring to it. Food coming right up," grinned Miranda.
Once they had finished eating and AJ had generously shared his brownies with her, Miranda and AJ begin clearing up the mess. When they looked back Dammit was lying down on the blanket and gone to sleep with Randy. Using Dammit's tummy as a pillow he was asleep too.
"I wish we had brought a camera I would love to have a picture of that to keep," Miranda said leaning in AJ's arms.
"Yes, it would make a nice keepsake and something to embarrass him with later," AJ whispered in her ear. "How about I stretch out on the blanket and you use me as a pillow?"
"I like the way that sounds," grinned Miranda, taking his hand and going to the blanket where they could both lay down in each other's arms. "I like the way this feels."
"Yes, it has a natural feeling to it," he said as he caressed her hair and tickled her ear, causing shudders to run through her body.
She turned away and said, "Don't do that, AJ it makes me all hot and bothered."
"All the more reason I should," he grinned as he tickled her ear again.
"Do you really want to start something out here in the open that you can't finish?" she asked in a husky voice.
"So you don't want an indecent exposure charge on your record Judge Love?" he asked as he ran his tongue around the shell of her ear.
"It would almost be worth it, but I don't know how I would explain to Nora when she had to bail the four of us out of jail. Or would that be the three of us out of jail and Dammit out of the pound?"
"Once Nora found out that I taught Randy how to say Dammit she'd probably leave me in jail and Dammit in the pound."
"You were also the one that got Randy to walk, so she just might forgive you."
"But don't most mothers want to be there for their baby's first step? She may take that into consideration and just leave me in jail and decide that she doesn't want me to see her mother anymore."
"She has no say in who I date, so don't worry, sweetheart. Once she springs me from jail, I promise to have you out in record time, but I'll have to have you remanded into my custody."
"What kind of community service would you have me do? Or would you just leave me in handcuffs?" he grinned with a twinkle in his eyes.
"I kind of like the idea of have you in handcuffs and at my mercy," she replied running her thumb over his lips. Opening his mouth and catching her thumb he sucked it into his mouth as he watched her eyes grow large and fill with desire. "AJ, you tempt me in ways I haven't been tempted in a very long time," she said.
"If only we weren't chaperoned by a dog and a child, here in a public place, I would do more than just tempt you."
"Yes, but regretfully we are. I guess we'll never know what could have happened," she sighed.
"At my age I have learned never say 'never'. We'll just have to wait for our time and place," he replied stroking her hair.
"Then maybe it would be safer if we changed the subject now," Miranda said a little sadly.
To Be Continued….