“The first half.How many of these names did you already have?”
Ivy ignored the question.“So if these first two are in prison, either of them could be pulling strings from the inside.”
She hated to admit it was possible, but she couldn’t say for certain it wasn’t.Crime still happened behind bars.“I guess...maybe.”
“You and I both know it’s more than maybe.”Ivy’s gaze was as hard as her tone, sending a little shiver down Cassie’s spine.She was lucky to have such a powerful ally who believed in her.
She hoped it would be enough to make all this stop.
Ivy put her phone away.“Think I’ve got everything I need to dig into this.Anything else you wanna talk about while it’s just the two of us?I’m not great at girl talk, but Shae and Kiyomi tell me I’m getting better.”
Cassie smiled faintly.Did Ivy know about her and Tristan?Probably.“I’m okay.”
“All right.I’ll leave you to it.Oh, and relax your right shoulder when you shoot.You’re too tense, it’s pulling your aim up and right.”She left Cassie staring after her.
Cassie turned back to the firing lane and loaded a fresh magazine, her thoughts shifting back to Tristan.And how in a different time and place, she would have done anything to make it work with him.
Chapter Twenty-Three
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Ivy paused typing withher right hand when Mr.Whiskers hopped up on her lap and automatically started rubbing under his chin.His rumbling purrs filled the home office she shared with Walker.“Hello, handsome.”
“Hi.”
She looked over her shoulder to find Walker standing in the doorway, the width of his shoulders almost filling it.The flannel button-down he wore hugged the muscular planes of his chest and shoulders, the sleeves rolled up to reveal his roped forearms.
Yummm...“Come to distract me?”
“Do I distract you?”He came toward her at an unhurried pace, blue eyes full of the quiet intensity that had first drawn her to him, and her pulse sped up in reflex.She was absolutely Pavlovian with him.
“You know you do.”Her engagement ring glinted on her left hand, poised on the keyboard.He hadn’t pushed her more about setting a date, and she was glad because she was incredibly happy with the way things were and didn’t want to jinx it.She wasn’t going anywhere, and neither was he.They were in this together for the long haul, with or without a ceremony.
His deep chuckle against the side of her neck sent a delicious shiver through her.“Happy to hear that.What’re you working on?”
It was really damned hard to concentrate with him running his nose along the most sensitive spots on her neck.Which he knew.Walker had discovered and committed every single pleasure point on her body to memory within the first few weeks they’d been together and still used them to his advantage.
