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“Very funny. I just want to make sure that you are who you say you are.”
“I am. I think we may have someone in common.”
My eyes widen in surprise. “I doubt that.”
He gives me a know-it-all smirk that on anyone else would give him an “I want to punch you in the face” vibe, but instead gives him an “I want to make out with your face” look. “Clover Black.”
“How do you know her?” I ask, keeping my expression neutral.
“I used to be partners on the force with her husband, Felix.”
Small world indeed. “Okay, I just want to know what the hell we are doing here, and then I’ll be on my merry way.”
His lip twitches. “Where’s your entourage?”
“Around.”
He slides over a folder. “I am indeed a PI, and I was hired by a woman looking for you.”
I open the file and start to read the information in front of me. It says that a woman by the name of Constance Wilder has been searching for me.
“Constance Wilder,” I say, testing the name out. “We share the same biological father?”
Decker nods. “Wade Wilder.”
“I haven’t seen Wade since I was a kid.” He never wanted anything to do with me, and to be honest, the feeling is mutual. From what I remember of him, he was not a good man. “So I have a half sister?”
“You sound surprised.”
I am.
To me, Rake is my father, and I don’t really think about Wade at all. Rake is the one who has been there for me and loved me as his own for as long as I can remember. With Rake as my father, I never felt like I was missing out on anything and never ever thought about reaching out to Wade or that side of the family.
“She wants to meet me?” I ask, a little curious, but also a little suspicious. If this Constance is anything like our father, maybe I don’t want to know her. Hypocritical of me, I know, but I’m nothing like Wade.
Decker nods, studying me a little too closely. “She does. I can leave her information with you, and then it can be up to you what you do with it.”
I arch my brow at him. “Don’t you work for her?”
He laughs, and it’s a deep, sexy sound. “I work for myself.”
“I’d like to meet her. I mean, I’d like to hear what she has to say,” I decide. I’m extremely close with my baby sister, Natalie, and I never imagined that I would have more siblings out there who want to connect with me. I should at least give Constance a chance. If she’s not a good person, then I don’t have to have anything to do with her. But I can at least give her that chance, right?
I just hope I don’t regret it.
“Can I get you a drink now?” he asks, studying me.
“Sure, I’ll have a beer, but then I better get going. I have stuff to do.”
He nods and heads to the bar to buy my drink, while I contemplate how weird my life has become. Yesterday I almost pulled an unloaded gun on him—not that he knows that—and today he’s buying me a drink. He knows more about my life than I do right now, and it’s messing with my head.
Constance.
In this moment I’m glad that I came here alone, because I know that no one is going to like this idea, my parents especially. Wade has always been one to use whatever and whoever he can to get what he wants—usually money, or so I’ve heard—and it could be that he’s using his daughter to get something he wants now.
Is this a plan of theirs, or am I just jaded?
“You look worried. Is everything okay?” Decker asks, his gaze locked on me. He has beautiful green eyes, like the ocean, framed in thick dark lashes.
