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“Yes. Thanks.” I pull it from my purse and hand it to her. “I really appreciate this and everything.”
“Of course. I’ll bring it to you so you can at least take it at the lunch break.”
I nod and my phone rings with Gabe’s number. “Savage told me you’re about to be here. I’m waiting outside the courtroom for you. We have five minutes until they reconvene.”
“I’ll be right there.” I disconnect, truly living in an alternative universe when both of my brothers are a part of my day and both are trying to protect me. I really don’t know what to do with that information but I’m not rejecting the help. I have a husband and a child to protect.
Savage, looking as big and barbaric as ever, meets me at the door. “Before we go into the courtroom, I need you to come with me.”
“Where?” I ask, falling into step with him.
“Woman,” he says. “You always have to ask questions.”
“Where are we going, Savage?”
It’s in that moment that someone grabs me and pulls me into a hallway.
Chapter sixty-four
Cat
Iyelp with the tug on my arm that pulls me into a deserted hallway, only to be whirled around, and pressed to a wall with Reese’s big body molded to mine. “Reese,” I breathe out. “Why aren’t you—”
He kisses me, a deep, drugging, make-me-moan-right-here-in-the-courthouse kiss that has me pushing on his shoulders and panting out, “What’s wrong?”
“Tell me again what the doctor said,” he orders softly.
He must suspect I’m pregnant. Does he? “You need to be focused on court. Why aren’t you with your client?”
“Cat.”
“I told you. She gave me medicine. I’m fine. Lauren went to get it so I can take a dose at lunch. This isn’t like you. When you’re in court, you’re in court. What is going on?”
He presses his hands on the wall on either side of me and he looks skyward, torment radiating off of him as he fixes me in a turbulent stare. “I asked the judge for an extra fifteen minutes.”
“Why? I know it wasn’t to ask about my doctor’s appointment.”
“There was an envelope delivered to me a few minutes ago. The envelope was marked ‘important, read before you go into court.’”
“It was from Debbie,” I assume.
“I will assume that to be accurate. It was pictures of you Cat, taken over the course of weeks.”
“She’s been watching me,” I say flatly.
“That’s another safe assumption. Cat, there’s more.”
“More? What more could there be?”
“The note in the envelope said, ‘I’m going to tell her everything.’”
I have just a moment that those words punch me in the chest, but it’s a moment and it’s gone. “We’re good,” I say. “That means nothing to me.”
“I could have hidden it from you, Cat.”
“But you didn’t. You wouldn’t. She’s at Reid’s office now. I was going to wait and tell you until tonight but she showed up at my doctor’s office. Royce’s team cornered her, and that’s how she ended up with Reid.”
“At your doctor’s office.”
