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“No, you assu to do with her husband’sthe color of a car doesn’t tell you that unless I’ve ative techniques?”
He smiled but it was one of frustration and restraint “It’s a safe bet though, isn’t it?”
“I don’t know detective, what about the incident a fewto do with the club, did it?”
He sighed because I was adding to his exhaustion but he could join the club I’d been exhausted for years with no end in sight so his was none of my concern “Okay, it didn’t Happy?”
“No I’m not happy Someone shot up my business andI’ classes and that’s how I met them Jana and I became friends and that’s all I have for you”
“Thanks If you can think of anything else, please let lass checkout counter and left, taking his toxic little partner with him
Dealing with the police was never , not since I’d seen up close just how they treated those entrusted in their care Thanks to e, I only found et it Ever
Another knock sounded and I practically jumped out of my skin I wasn’t in the mood for visitors and I was much too jumpy to deal with customers or artists at the moment But I was clearly visible fro to the door and unlocking it again “Cross What are you doing here?”
He stood in the doorway, so big and i that I would have felt intiiven ht be surly but he didn’t seeerous To me anyway Hands shoved in his pocket, he looked a little scared “I caize for the other day I was out of line and rude for no reason, and I’m sorry about that”
I stepped back so he could come into the shop and locked the door behind him Given the events of the last feeeks it didn’t“It’s fine, Cross, really You don’t have to like me, especially since you haven’t done much to make yourself all that likable”
He sli his forear akin to mischief and I swear to Mother Earth, the tiny seon to holy smokes irresistible bad boy “You don’t find me likable?”
“You’re plenty likable,”
I told him as I worked hard to tamp down the desire that welled up at that smile “Until you open yourwith his tall frame and wide shoulders, thick brown hair that looked like it belonged in a shampoo commercial and eyes so blue they could rival the ocean He was as handsoerous, but it was the latter I needed to remember
“There may be some truth to that,” he admitted sheepishly “What’s that smell?”
“Sage and lavender To get rid of the bad energy in this place” I kneould think it was some type of voodoo or hocus pocus, or whatever other phrase people used to describe things they couldn’t understand