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When he walked in the back door, he found Sierra sitting at the kitchen table, adown, he kissed her on the top of her head before erator where he retrieved a beer and returned to stand beside her

“Luke here yet?”

“No,” she said, not looking up fro at

“Did he say when he’d be here?” It was painfully clear already that he wasn’t going to be getting Sierra’s full attention tonight

“Late He told us not to wait up for him”

Cole nodded his head and turned to walk out of the room It was clear she was busy, and Luke obviously was too It wasn’t like he didn’t expect it There was sowith a new client for the last hich kept her plenty occupied

Foregoing the living room where he normally would find a way to pass the time, Cole went out on the back patio with his beer The days were shorter, and the sun was going down quickly, but it was still warht as well enjoy it while he could

Cole had never been big on being cooped up in the house, always preferring the outdoors That’s part of why he liked his job with Alex because he was always on the go and very rarely stuck inside Would that change if Dylan went off the deep end and Alex was forced to ht to hilanced down at the screen to see it was Luke and pro unusually upbeat “Why don’t you and Sierra coet away, but I’d like to see you”

Cole’s stoh him The times when Luke said so much in one instance were few and far between For him actually to ask to see them was even more infrequent than a sentence with more than ten words in it

“Will do I just walked in the door, but I’ll talk to Sierra and we’ll head that way”

“See you then,” Luke said and the phone disconnected