“Humpery?”
He just grinned, and that one look said it all. Oh, someone thought he was a clever letch.
Elizabeth rolled her eyes.
“I’m not going there. Anyway, he feels betrayed, and unless Corbin decides to be his partner, or they admit that they are both attracted to each other, I can’t do anything about it.”
Ivan laughed.
“Fifty says she’s going to talk to Corbin to fix this,” he said, holding up a bill.
She pointed at him, and took his money.
“That’s for making me look at that face of yours, Marine. No betting on this pony. You always lose.”
Except, that was exactly her plan tomorrow. Yeah, she was crazy like that.
“Anyway,” she said. “I want to go back to the scene of the crime.”
Ivan stared at her.
He didNOTjust hear her say that.
“WHY?”he asked.
She was to the point.
“We focused on the eyeballs more than the dead veteran. Don’t you want to find who killed him?” she asked, knowing how he thought. “A soldier?”
He stared at her.
Oh, she knew he’d want her to solve it for that reason, and that reason alone.
“That’s dirty.”
Yeah, she was aware.
But a girl had to do what a girl had to do.
Right?
“Well, I like dirty deeds. Look at Callen. He’s the dirtiest thing I do all the time.”
He grinned like the Cheshire Cat.
Oh, he was proud of that, too.
“You should see the dirty deeds I’m thinking about,” he admitted. “You and me, later. It looks like I’m last man standing in the bunch.”
Gene busted his ass because it was just too easy to do it, and fun.
“Um…I’m right here.”
He stared at him.
“You don’t like what she brings to the table. I do. Back off and go have phone sex with your husband.”
He snorted.
