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“Jesus.” He reached for a third. “How the hell is that possible? There had to have been three dozen in there.”
“Probably more, but everyone took at least three and others are hoarding them for later. You know how it goes.”
“Yep.”
Landon’s eyes dropped to the card on his desk. “Are you going to give that to the chief? The Carlisles have enough money to pass along if we need anything. Might as well take advantage of it.”
“You know who that was, right?”
“Yeah,” Landon said. “I didn’t when she came in. I might not have when she gave her full name, but then I caught on when she talked about her daughter doing foundation work. That’s the billionaire’s mother and sister.”
“It is. I wasn’t positive until I looked it up.”
“You’re not from around here originally. Some knew the siblings in school if they were in the district. There are enough of them.”
“I didn’t go to school around here.” He didn’t talk much about his life prior to becoming Jace Rigby.
No one knew Jace Miller and it was best to keep it that way.
4
BROUGHT HER SUCH COMFORT
“You did what?” Talia screeched two hours later.
“I brought cookies to the nice firemen that rushed here Tuesday. I was making them for you, so I did a double batch.”
She wanted to snarl, but instead stuffed a cookie in her mouth. Her third one.
Between calls, she’d smelled the notes of vanilla and chocolate in the air and raced upstairs to snatch one off the counter while it was still hot.
The chocolate pulled away as she’d taken a bite. Her eyes closed while she savored the childhood taste that always brought her such comfort.
She’d kissed her mother on the cheek for doing it, then grabbed another and returned to her work. It was going to be a busy morning and she’d closed herself into her office.
If she’d known what her mother was going to do, she would have locked her in there too.
“Why did you bring them cookies?”
“To thank them,” her mother said. “I’m glad to know their response time is so quick. What if it was something more serious? It was the least I could do.”
“You talked about me, didn’t you?”
She knew her mother’s MO. Always meddling in everyone’s business.
Her mother should be content with three of her children married, another engaged, and a fourth in a serious relationship. She even had her first grandchild coming.
But nope, her mother still had to interfere.
“Why would you think that?” her mother asked. It was the smirk that she grew up seeing. The one where it didn’t matter what you said, her mother was going to do what she wanted.
“Because you can’t help yourself,” she said, crossing her arms. “What did you do?”
“I dropped off cookies and commended them on a wonderful job.”
“Just great.”
“Oh stop, Talia. It’s the nice thing to do. I was being considerate. I believe the captain you said was sexy is the one I talked to. Jace?”
