"If you don't mind," Brenton begins, touching Annalise's shoulder, turning her to him with the slightest pressure. "I believe I have some business to attend to with my wife."
He's beaming down at her when Annalise lets her gaze break from Jacob long enough to face him. He leans down and captures her lips for himself before she can return the smile.
Her arms reach up of their own accord, wrapping around his neck, drawing herself up onto her tiptoes to get just that little bit closer to him.
Standing behind her now, Jacob has moved away. She is intimately aware of his every movement as he wanders around the room. First, he closes the door between her room and the Earl's rooms, locking it from inside Brenton's room after he closes it, as that is the only side it can be locked from, securi
