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"Leave it to you to always get back to the point." One corner of his mouth lifted.
I hoped he’d answer a burning question, since he was in such an explanatory mood. "Who helped you break out of the clink?"
His smirk disappeared. "That’s beside the point."
I kept pressing him. "Was it Gravix and Zorbluk?"
"Yes, and before you ask, no one was harmed. Now allow me to finish my point. Help me, Faye."
When did he start calling me by my first name, before or after I arrested him the first time? "Why would I want to help you keep breaking the law?"
"You wouldn’t be. You’d be patching up your reputation."
"Is there something wrong with it?”
"Nothing, except you nabbed the wrong guy."
***
KLINN
"Come on, Faye. Thinkwhat it could mean if it got out that Earth’s greatest detective made a galactic flub."
Oh, boy. I shouldn’t have said that. Even though I teased her, there seemed to be one thing Faye took seriously over anything else, and it was her job as a detective.
She drilled a hole into my skull with her laser stare. "I don’t think I’m Earth’s greatest detective. But I strive to be an honest, decent one, at least."
"I didn’t mean it literally."
She gave her head a little shake. "You shouldn’t say what you don’t mean."
I needed a crane to pull myself out of the hole I dug to fall into. "If I didn’t think you were good, I wouldn’t have asked for your help."
"Asked for my help, or dragged me here kicking and screaming?" She leaned against the edge of the table in the room, as though we were at the police station, and she was grilling me before I got tossed in the slammer. "Why should I believe you were framed, Klinn? You’re a con artist."
"Wasa con artist. I told you, I'm not in that life anymore."
"Whatever. You tell people a lot of things."
"I’m not lying this time." I could almost see her mind working to pick apart my words, to look for holes in my logic and the facts I already gave her. Nothing about her methods surprised me. I just wished she didn’t use them on me all the time.
But I did take her from Kajal and brought her aboard my ship. Could I blame her for wanting to put me in handcuffs again?
The thought gave me a wiggly feeling in my gut right before my cock twitched in my pants.
What. The. Eff.
Since when did the idea of being restrained by Faye turn me on?
"I’m not convinced you were framed, Klinn." She kept her arms folded across her chest. I noticed how the posture made her dress follow the lines of her slender, curvy body. "All the eyewitness accounts of the museum thefts on Earth pointed to you."
"They’re lying."
She tipped her head to one side. "You’re saying every single museum employee, security guard, and civilian agreed to tell a lie on you?"
I looked at the ginger strands of her curly hair. It almost reminded me of a soft cloud floating above her head. Her cute, stubborn head.
Why was I noticing all these things about Faye’s appearance? Oh. She asked a probing question. I should probably answer. "I don’t know why they all thought it was me."
