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Again, I think, he’s joking. Mostly. Maybe? Royce doesn’t look amused and ignores him. “I have the number. I’ll make the call and set the meeting. We’ll record the entire conversation, but I’ll see if I can get an active detective to sit in.”
“No,” I say. “Too often they leak to the press. We can’t risk that.”
“No one we trust,” Savage says, “would leak or they would end up dead.” He glances at Royce and amends. “More like they’d wish they were dead.”
“We have a reputation of taking down dirty cops,” Royce says. “They’d regret it. I won’t call in anyone I don’t personally trust.” He motions to Savage. “We’ll get this under way and check-in in a few hours.”
“When are you going to make contact?” Reese asks.
“Once we have recording devices in place,” Royce replies. “And we have men following her now. We’re looking for an accomplice which brings me to a suggestion. I know we want to end this but we need to know who we are dealing with. Savage and I, as well as our team, have chatted in the past fifteen minutes, and the consensus is we need a few days to play this right.”
“What if she goes to the press?” I ask.
“Then she gets no payday,” Reese says. “She won’t. Take the time. End this right.”
Royce nods and Savage does the same. They head for the door and Lauren stops beside me. “You want a ride in the morning? I’ll come to court unless I’m taking down Debbie.”
“Yes, please,” I say, certain she can update me in the morning.
She nods and leaves but not before she squeezes my arm.
Cole and Lori step in front of us and Cole is the first to speak. “We’re in this all the way, no matter what that means.”
“Of course we are,” Lori assures us as well.
Cole motions to Reese. “Walk me out,” he says, and the two of them head toward the door.
Lori stays with me. “Do you need to talk?”
“Not yet,” I say, hating the way I’ve shut her out. I love her. We are so very close, but if I talk to her, I’ll want to tell her about the baby, and I just can’t. It’s not fair to Reese. “But soon,” I add.
“I can’t be in court tomorrow. I wish I could, but I’ll call you.” She hugs me and soon she is gone.
I stand there, waiting on Reese, and when he returns, he stops in front of me, the two of us just staring at each other. I expect him to lay something heavy on me, but instead, he pulls me close. “How many orgasms is it going to take to find out what the surprise is early?”
I laugh, the way only he can make me laugh, under this much stress. “Two hundred,” I say, giving him an unreachable number.
He arches a brow. “That’s a big number and since you have to write your column I’ll have to make this one fast.” He picks me up and starts walking toward the bedroom and for now, Debbie doesn’t exist. I love that about us. We can make everything else disappear. He makes everything else disappear and for the first time since Debbie appeared, I realize I’m certain this is all going to work out. Of course, Debbie thinks the same thing. She thinks it’s going to work out for her.
Chapter fifty-nine
Cat
Reese carries me up the stairs and lays me down on our bed, his big body coming down on top of mine. “I love you, woman.”
“I know you do,” I promise. “You have nothing to prove to me. I told you. My reactions are about this surprise.”
He leans up on his elbows. “Tell me what it is.”
My hand goes to his face, tenderness overcoming me when I think of what I have to share, but I haven’t even gone to the doctor yet. I’m not telling him now. “You have to wait until your birthday. I promise. It’s worth the wait.”
“You’re killing me, Cat. I can normally take your teasing, but now—”
“You can take it,” I tease. “You’re ‘Mr. Hotness’ and by the way, the blogs about you have already started again.”
“Fuck,” he growls. “Not more of the Mr. Hotness craziness.”
“I like it more now,” I say.
