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Wilson shifted next to me, using his free hand to pull his phone out of his suit pocket. I tried to unlock our fingers so he could navigate his phone easier but he held tight.
Oh, yeah, my heart had swelled.
“Catarina’s on her way up,” Wilson announced.
Jack came out of the chair and circled behind it to get the front door.
“You did good today,” Wilson mumbled.
“I was afraid I’d screwed up, especially when Mister the Creep said he wanted me to arrange the property in front of them.”
“You handled it brilliantly.”
Damn, that felt good.
Like, really, really good.
It would’ve been safer to blame the feeling in my stomach on my father for never praising me or telling me I’d ever done anything brilliantly. But, the truth was it had nothing to do with Dr. Levine and everything to do with Wilson and his approval and how quickly I was falling in love with him.
Don’t give up on him.
He needs you to fight for him.
I stared at Wilson wondering if I was strong enough to fight for a man who had built walls around his walls. Was I strong enough to battle whatever demons he kept hidden?
Then I remembered. I was Helene Simpson’s granddaughter. She’d taught me I was strong enough to do anything.
I need you to never tell me no.
No one threatens to take what’s mine.
Ditto, Wilson McCray. No one threatens to take what’s mine.
Not even the man himself.
TWENTY
“That man is handsy as fuck,” Cat complained as soon as she walked into the room.
Atlee slowly dragged her gaze from mine.
So much emotion had been swirling in those brown eyes of hers. I watched her run the gambit—from delight to confusion to worry to resolve. It was the resolve that concerned me. I’d quickly learned that with Atlee’s attitude, resolve could mean anything.
“Are you okay?” Atlee asked.
Catarina waved a hand and tossed herself ungracefully into a chair.
“I’m fine. Martin’s nothing I can’t handle but the man tests the boundaries of skills. By the end of the night I was getting ready to break cover and introduce him to the real Cat.”
“Stow your claws, kitten,” Jack teased. “We’re getting close. The property Martin secured fell through and he’s asked Atlee to find him a new place.”
Cat slowly smiled.
“You wouldn’t happen to know anything about that, would you?” I asked.
“Well…” she drew out the word. “I might’ve overheard where he’d planned the auction and made a few calls reporting a bed bug infestation.”
I felt my temper flare. I didn’t like to be kept in the dark at any stage of an operation but especially when it threatened to put a halt to the entire rescue.
