Never did she think she’d have two Ians running the ship, but here she was. That was the one thing going in her favor.
“If you want it done better and right, hire a woman,” she teased, busting his ass.
Ian stared at her.
“I don’t know if you called me a girl, or you insulted me. I’m up in the air about this one. Your insults are usually more to the point.”
Yeah, she was aware.
Only, she was wearing down.
Getting up, she stretched, and needed a coffee to get her motivated to pull today off.
“Walk and talk,” she said. “I need caffeine. I did ten miles this morning, and I don’t need to be cranky for the rest of the day to anyone.”
Oh, he was well aware.
As they headed out, the first stop was the bullpen for her team. The Violent Crimes Unit, two-point-oh, had their own space. Inside, she found a few team members sitting there.
Corbin was having a cup of coffee, and Alex was on the phone, talking to someone.
“Yo,” she said, getting Corbin’s attention.
He grinned.
“Hey, boss. What’s up?”
She wished not her blood pressure, but here it was, higher than it should be.
Thanks, Axelle.
“Just checking in. How’s the case?” she asked.
He pushed the file toward her.
“Closed. Alex and I wrapped it last night. I just came in to escape my mother, and finish the paperwork. She’s on the‘let’s explore our new city’kick, and I’m not sure the Natives want her walking in the woods.”
She laughed.
“If she gets caught, just tell whoever it is that Callen is her best friend.”
Ian laughed.
“Did you just throw him under the bus?” he asked. “That feels like a trap.”
She nodded.
“He’s the liaison so, yeah. That’s his punishment for buying that haunted mansion-of-torment for me. He could have bought a normal house.”
No, he couldn’t.
And she knew it.
There were just too many of them in the family to fit inside of a‘normal house’.
Who was she kidding?
“Anyway, good job,” Elizabeth offered. “Did everything go okay?”
