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"Thanks, Lexie"

"Catch you next time you're in Fort Worth," she said "I want all the details about Mr Big Dick with a good voice"

Drew's eyebrow arched "I have a name, you know"

"And a hot official photo too, Sheriff Drew Jackson," Lexie said with a laugh

"Never get a job in the real world, Lexie" Leah shook her head, wondering not for the first tiitimate Texas heiress and all around quirk fest—had ever ended up at B-Squad Investigations and Security "You'd be fired in a heartbeat"

"Probably Toodles, kids"

After Lexie hung up, she and Drew sat and drank their coffee in silence for a fewhis way around to the sa

"You spend a lot of ti the last remains of his breakfast around his plate with his fork

"My mom's there with o back every two or three months"

"Ever think ofback down?"

A short bark of a laugh escaped "Not unless Texas gets a political al Believe it or not, I like what I do I like the people I like the challenge of running a business I like that I ot their business master’s at the same time as I did wouldn't touch with a twenty-foot pole—not that they aren't regretting it now"

"So why not apply those skills to another kind of business?" he asked, snagging her cup of coffee and stealing a drink

Letting the question soak in for aabout her bu

siness, but it wasn't there It was like he was justcurious The realization did so her with a soft warmness she wasn't used to and didn't kno to process So she did what she always did in that situation and made herself harder

"Because I like selling pot" She jerked her chin higher and straightened her spine, not letting herself drop eye contact "It's not just the hipsters ant to get high It's a legal product that a lot of people enjoy It's also a Godsend for folks with glaucoma, cancer and other illnesses Plus, it's fun as hell to show up to work in ht suits who stop in on a regular basis and try to buy me out"