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I loved it even more that Quinn had remembered.
I also wasn’t willing to admit how much it meant to me.
“In here,” Garnett called when we stepped into the main living area.
Quinn turned us so that we were in the kitchen, where all of them were holding cups of coffee.
Garnett came up to me and placed her hands on my cheeks before saying, “You look beautiful.”
I tried to smile but failed.
I just wasn’t in the mood to play happy.
“Thanks,” I murmured quietly.
“Agent Dunn,” Quinn said. “This is my fiancée, Shayne Rodriguez.”
I went to immediately disagree, but Quinn squeezed my hand, halting my words before they’d left my lips.
Garnett snorted and pulled away, walking back to the counter where she grabbed two mugs of coffee, handing one to me, then taking a seat at the bar.
Sometime over the last couple of days, new barstools had arrived.
Ones that I would’ve picked.
I had a feeling Ande had something to do with that.
“Nice to meet you,” Agent Dunn said. “And call me Ambrose.”
I nodded. “Ambrose.”
“I’m here because I have to be,” he explained. “I’ve read enough of the report on the circumstances, as well as talked to your brother-in-law, Gable. I don’t technically feel like I need your statement on the matter to make a sound judgment, but I have to make it look like I’m being fair.”
My stomach started to feel funny. Like life wasn’t as bad as I thought it was a couple of seconds ago.
My brows rose. “What do you need from me to do that?”
Short of giving him my body, I’d do just about anything not to be in trouble with the law.
“Tell me everything, in your own words, of what happened over the last year leading up to the arrest of your brother,” he suggested.
So I did, explaining how I went out of my way to stay away from home as much as possible. How I used the back entrance to enter into the house. How I left when Costas arrived.
“I can attest to all of that,” Quinn offered up. “I was over there at her place the night before the warrant was served and the arrest of Costas was made. I saw nothing lying out in plain view. I looked pretty thoroughly, too.”
Quinn looked rather sheepish, allowing me to see that on his face.
I crossed my arms over my chest, narrowing my eyes at him.
His admission didn’t surprise me, though.
I mean, he was a cop, through and through.
You didn’t just turn something like that off.
“Okay,” Ambrose said. “The DA, Tanner, is going to…”
I tuned him out, allowing the people in the room who knew what they were talking about to converse.
