The Temple Mount Code (44 page)

‘Graduate work can be extremely adventurous.’

‘I stand corrected, Professor Lourds. However, it seems that I have recently come into possession of an obscene amount of money. You can take a week or two before you return to the grind. Let me spoil us for a while. Then I promise I’ll let you back out into the world to play.’

Lourds grinned. ‘I’d like that.’

She snaked his hat from his head and put it on, then leaned her face up to be kissed. And he did.