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well inside."
    Sharon yawned as she collected the coffee mug from the footwell. "I'm shattered."
    "We really shouldn't stay long." Cullen checked his watch - quarter to eleven. "We've got to get back into work in eight hours."
    "Aye, you're right, but we need to show our faces. Besides, I'm not thinking of doing that much sleeping."
    Cullen smiled as they got out of the car. He'd never been out with anyone with as voracious a sexual appetite as Sharon - usually it was him that was the pest, but it was at least six times a week with her. Cullen knew officers who probably hadn't had sex that often in ten years.
    She marched down the garden path and headed inside.
    Their parents stood up as they entered the lounge, a small square room filled with settees.
    Sharon sat on a dining room chair by the window. "Have you lot had a nice evening?"
    "It's been lovely." Cullen's mum grinned.
    Cullen's dad finished his can of beer. "I take it you pair have had a shite one?"
    Cullen almost laughed at the scowl his dad got from his mum for the 'S' word. He sat on the other dining chair as their parents resettled themselves. "That would be a good way to describe it. Out in West Lothian. Dead bodies."
    "Aye, pots of overtime." Sharon's dad rubbed his hands together. "I know how it works, Scott. You pair will have coined in a small fortune from it. Spending money for your holiday to Tenerife in January."
    Cullen sighed. "Just over three months to go. I hate January in Edinburgh."
    "We were there in the spring." Cullen's mum nudged his dad. "It was lovely, wasn't it?"
    "You'll have a great time, son." His dad's phone rang. "That'll be the taxi. We're staying at the Holiday Inn Express at Ocean Terminal."
    Cullen raised an eyebrow. "You could walk there in ten minutes."
    "Walk through Leith at eleven o'clock at night? Are you mad?"
    Sharon's dad raised a hand. "Hey, this isn't Leith. It's Trinity."
    Cullen had to bite his lip and keep his eyes away from Sharon to stop laughing. Instead he checked his own watch again. "We'd best be going, too, seven a.m. start tomorrow."
    Sharon's mother frowned. "Oh, just a fleeting visit?"
    "Afraid so, mum. Got to make sure Scott doesn't sleep in again."
    "We're heading back up the road tomorrow afternoon." Cullen's mother got to her feet. "Will we be seeing you?"
    "I'll try and get some time." Cullen winced. "The way this case is going, though, I'm expecting to be out in West Lothian all day."
    "Okay then." She looked at her feet. "Will you two be up for the weekend soon?"
    "Think we're both off in a couple of weeks. Pencil it in."
    Sharon shot him daggers - they had precious few weekends together, the last thing she wanted was to spend it at his parents.

    ***

    Cullen started over again.
    Ross County, Inverness Caley Thistle, Elgin, Peterhead, Aberdeen.
    Sharon was on top of him, grinding away, her hands pressing down on his chest. Going through the mantra kept the wolf from the door.
    Arbroath, Brechin City, Forfar, Montrose, Dundee, Dundee United.
    She quickened her pace, sliding up and down.
    St Johnstone, East Fife, Cowdenbeath, Raith Rovers, Dunfermline.
    Her panting quickened. "I'm going to come, I'm going to come."
    Cullen stopped his recital and quickened his pace, thrusting harder and faster beneath her. She leaned forward, her hard nipples pressing into his chest. His hands moved from her hips to grab her breasts, his eyes focused on the mole on her left hip, his favourite one. He closed his eyes and came, just as she buckled.
    She put her head against his shoulder and bit. "Oh, fuck, oh fuck, oh, fuck."
    They lay there for a minute or so, before she rolled off then snuggled into him.
    "I love you." He kissed her on the head.
    "I love you, too."
    Cullen tied up the condom, not thinking about anything for once.
    She leaned over. "You know something?"
    "What?"
    "You only tell me you love me just after you come."
    "That'll be about ten times a day with you."
    She laughed. "It took you a while the first