Page 218 of Come Back to Me

“Fine, I guess we don’t have another plan, do we, Tee?”

“No. We don’t.”

“You need to learn patience. This could take months.”

“What?! But it’s so simple!”

“You have two traumatized dogs. You can’t click your fingers and everything will turn right with them.”

“Shame.”

Cody snorts. “Yeah. Shame.”

Callan grumbles, “I’ll see you here tomorrow, Tee. Same time?”

“Yup. NoHalothis afternoon?”

“Nah, I’m sick of losing.”

“You going for a ride, Callan?” Cody asks.

“No. I have work to do. I’ll see you both later.”

As he storms out, leaving us alone, I sidle closer to him. “It’s nice to see you.”

“Nice? Sheesh. Kill me with kindness, baby girl.”

The endearment has me turning to goo below the boobs.

Pressing into him, I murmur, “I meant... you’ve been sneaking in and out of my room so well that I haven’t seen you in ages. Not this early, anyway.”

His chin plops onto my shoulder. “Been crazy and I escaped while I could.”

“I thought the case was transferred to the RCMP?”

“Yeah, but we were assigned their minor cases so they could handle this because Reilly—as my nanna used to say—couldn’t organize a piss-up in a brewery and it’s taking them ten times as long to do anything.”

“Isn’t Sergeant Stick-Up-His-Butt still being investigated?”

“The mayor called him in because his expertise was ‘greatly needed.’”

“Ha! You have more expertise than him.”

“Maybe. Not experience though. The man might be corrupt, but he knows what he’s doing...”

Because he doesn’t sound too sure, I tease, “You positive about that?”

“No, but it can’t be any worse than my handling of the shooting.”

“What do you mean?”

“It felt like a clusterfuck, but I don’t think there was anything else I could have done to control the situation.”

“Are you being investigated?”

“No. Though, if the dead biker or the one who nearly lost an arm to Brogan were anyone important, that would be a yes. As it stands, I had to write up multiple reports and we had extra training to deal with hostage situations this past week.”

My brows lift. “You know a problem shared is a problem halved, don’t you?”

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