Page 123 of Icy Cold Death

Beside them, they weren’t the only two celebrating a reunion of sorts.

Raven held his fiancée against his body, and as he did, he lovingly nuzzled her, grateful that she was okay.

God.

He missed her.

“My sweet woman,” he said, kissing her on the tip of her nose.

She swooned.

That was always her reaction to this man.

“Oh, Raven, it was so much fun. I’ve never been locked up before, and watching Tori tear someone a new one was amazing. Oh, my God! That’s going in a book. Somehow, I’ll work that into a plot.”

Tori laughed as they reached them.

“I do try. I learned from the best,” she said, meaning her bestie.

Because people were staring, Hailey hopped down from the hip-leg lock, and instead, Bodhi wrapped his arms around her to rest his chin on the top of her head.

All was better in his world.

“What do we do now?” he asked. “I’m not usually included in this part of an investigation. I dig in the body and that’s it.”

Tori explained.

“You and Hailey are going to go clean up and do wedding things. If we need you to look at the bodies, we can try to make that happen…”

The detective interrupted.

The town’s detective, not theirs.

“I can likely make that happen,” Genesis said. “Doctor Sinclair likes me, but I can already tell you that he’s not going to let your guy root around in a body…”

Tori pointed out the obvious.

“He’s an ME.”

Genesis hated to be the downer, but there was something she wasn’t taking into consideration.

“Yeah, that won’t matter. Will likes control of his morgue. MEs are an odd bunch.”

Bodhi laughed.

“She’s not wrong,” he admitted.

Tori knew that Genesis was likely right. That didn’t matter. They had enough people on this, so the couple needed to go do couple-y things.

“We’ll call you, Bo, if we can get that to happen. What I want is you guys to just go play wedding couple. We have this.”

Hallelujah.

That was all he wanted.

Out of joy, he hugged Tori.

“Bless you,” he said.

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