Page 34 of Icy Cold Death

A lot.

“Yeah, sure, why not? I mean, at least some of my staff isn’t Hatfield and McCoying it all over our businesses. There is some decorum here at Littlemoon Investigations,” he admitted. “I apologize to my partners. Normally, we’re not a war tribe. Only, sisters…”

Lucian reassured him.

“Don’t worry, Julian. Everyone is still getting the work done, and I’ll be honest.”

He raised a brow.

Julian wasn’t sure where this was going. Only, if Lucian was visiting him, it was going to be about the other half of their business. Lucian was handling the bail bond part of their world.

“About?” he asked, suspiciously.

Lucian went there.

“Lianna.”

He sighed and put his head down on the desk, expecting the worst.

Why?

Because that was his luck.

“Oh, boy. What?” Julian asked. “Did she fuck it up and you’re here to tell me?”

Lucian and Ridge actually laughed.

“Someone has no faith,” Ridge said. “Get some.”

Julian wasn’t sure what that meant.

Lucian reassured him.

“She’s actually good at running things. She’s calm, she’s focused, and she had some good ideas about the bail bond division of our business. I just had a meeting with her, and I like where she saw this going. It’ll be very profitable since the family is growing.”

He listened and wasn’t sure what to think.

“We had dinner with her in my office, and she isn’t just a Littlemoon by blood, Jules. She’s good at what she does. She’s highly organized and efficient.”

Well, shit.

This was the best news he could get today. Honestly, he was expecting Lucian to tell him to cut her loose, and he couldn’t do that. She was wounded, alone, and trying to raise two kids. She needed a little support.

“Really?”

He nodded.

“Yes.”

Well, that helped, a bit.

“She ran a lawyer’s office,” Julian said. “Well, before sister-apocalypse went down, and her husband made her quit to isolate her.”

Lucian could see the scars Lianna had, and he was going to give her the benefit of the doubt until she made him revoke that.

“You can tell,” he stated. “Lianna isn’t going to struggle with the day-to-day responsibilities. With this office, you had to teach Hart and Arsen how to run it. They are good at it, but Lianna came with those skills. She’s a good manager for it.”

He sat there.

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