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But she also didn’t want to admit the comfort she felt in that he was watching out for her. They’d have to talk for her to admit that.

“Oh boy, tell me what is going on so I can hate him too,” Miles said. “I’m good at that.”

“I don’t need to unload that drama.”

“Please do,” Miles said. “I love drama. I live for drama. I’ve been drama free for a good month.”

She felt bad that she hadn’t asked what was going on in his life as much as she used to.

Between a larger caseload and time with Zander and even helping him with some of his cases, she found she wasn’t taking the time out to see how her friends were doing.

No, that was wrong. She had no close friends.

Miles was an employee, but she cared about him as a friend. Maybe family.

“What’s going on with you?” she asked. “We’ve got twenty minutes. No more two guys to text?”

“No,” Miles said. “I told you that last week. They just wanted to be friends. I was hanging on longer than I should have. I’ll go out this weekend and see if I can connect with anyone. I’ve been lonelier than normal.”

“I’m so sorry,” she said. “I should have been more aware.”

Miles laughed. “That is a code word for horny,” Miles said. “I’m never lonely. As I just said, I’ve got a lot of friends. Might need to just hook up. Nothing wrong with that. Now tell me what is going on with Zander.”

She figured she better let him know anyway. He’d have to be on alert.

She pulled the letter out of her purse and handed it over. “This was delivered to my house in the mail on Friday.”

Miles read it. “Oh wow. I’m nervous and terrified for you, Regan.”

“Don’t be,” she said.She didn’t need him upset and shouldn’t have said a word about it.

It must have been the tone she’d used. “Did he lock your house down?”

“I’ve got cameras and all now. He’s even been trying to see if he can see anything on his cameras next door. I told him it was useless. I have no idea who this is from and I’m not worried. He shouldn’t be.”

“Don’t do that, Regan.”

“Do what?” she asked.

“He loves you. He cares for you. He’s worried. He’s being a big macho man protecting his woman.”

“I don’t need his protection.”

“We all need protection in life. You’d be upset if he was in danger. I know it. You’ve hinted before that it made you nervous if he was out late at night. And that is the unknown.”

“So is this,” she said. She didn’t need Miles to point that out to her.

“It’s unknown with a known threat. It’s scary. I’m scared.”

Her shoulders drooped. “There is no reason to be scared,” she said. “I’m sure this is just an empty threat.”

“I would have thought that before when you got the first letter and nothing more. But now it’s another one. Why? Do you think this has to do with Sophia? Could it be two different people? Let’s compare the way they look.”

“Zander had a copy of the first letter and this one. He said it’s the same font on both. Just a normal common one. But they are matching. Even the envelope was printed. We can go through our client lists again and see if there is anyone from that first letter that might tie them back together. It’s the best we can do on our own.”

“I’m on it,” Miles said. “Are you sure you’re okay? Not with Zander. You’ll work that out. Just this letter. I wonder if you were so worked up over him that you pushed back any fear with this. You know, like all those years having no answers about your parents and being almost afraid to really push it and then to find out the stupid reason for the divorce.”

She’d shared that with Miles when she didn’t normally, but he knew about the dinners and it was hard to say one part without the rest.

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