I lean forward, draping my arms over the steering wheel.
“Thank you.I appreciate you fitting me in,” Cassy replies.
“Of course.We try to be very accommodating at Thornton Dental.Let’s head down to my office.”
There are more footsteps and doors closing.Chairs shift on the floor and creak.
“Normally the patient accompanies the parents during the first meeting.Is...Sabrina not joining us?”Brad asks.
“She woke up with a throat infection, and I didn’t want to be a nuisance and reschedule,” Cassy says pleasantly, sticking with the agreed dialogue.“Is it okay if I ask a bunch of questions?I never had braces as a child.”
“I can see that.You have a beautiful smile.”
Josh growls.
I feel my lip curl, wondering if this jerk flirts with Caylee during the day like this.God, I hope it’s him so we can lock him up, anyway.
“I was lucky, Sabrina not so much.Can you talk me through how it works, how we make payments and anything else we should know?”
“Let’s grab these brochures and I’ll—”
Cassy starts coughing.
“Are you oka—”
More coughing.
“Can I have...water...sorry...”
We hear a chair moving, him ripping the door open.“Yes, wait there.Amy!”
It goes quiet.
Cassy coughs some more.
More rustle and some banging about.
We wait; my breath stuck in my throat.
If Brad is involved with the selling of children to sex traffickers, then any hint of someone setting him up could create a dangerous reaction from him.
Fight or flight.
He could run.
Or he could harm her.
“Got it,” Cassy says quietly and then coughs as Brad comes back in the room.
“Thanks,cough...I might be getting Sabrina’s bug.Cough.”
I sit back and let the rest of the team do their jobs and wonder how lunch is going.Is Cole asking Caylee about our relationship?Is she happy being my girl?
My girl.
I liked waking up and seeing her hair spilling out over my pillows while I climbed down her body and settled in between her legs on Sunday morning.
I liked seeing her pad around the kitchen in just one of my US Marshal T-shirts and no panties while she made us a pizza.
