“Just tell me which one, and I’ll be there whenever you’d like me to,” Archer stated.
“Now would be good,” she said, her eyes lifting for the first time since the call began.“Will that work for you?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Do not call me ma’am.”
“Yes, sir.”
JJ huffed a laugh.“Do not call me that either.”
“Yes, JJ.”
“That’s better.”She rattled off the name of the hospital and her room number.“We’ll be waitin’ for you.”
“I’ll head that way now.”
The call ended, and JJ looked at him.“Are you happy now?”
He snorted a laugh.“Me?Why me?”
“Because you’re the one who wants me to meet with him.”
Brantley choked on air.
Before he could defend himself, Reese held up a hand, waving him off.
How the hell did this becomehisidea?
JJ felt a little bit silly forinsisting on talking to Archer Halligan.In her defense, she was bored to tears and so ready to go home.The hospital people were incredibly nice—far nicer than she’d expected them to be—but she wanted her own bed and her own house and her office at HQ.
She didn’t want to sit here all day like she was an invalid or something.
She also didn’t want to be walking from one room to the next and have one of the peanuts plop out onto the ground.
So here she was, and here she would stay.The least her team could do was entertain her.
“How long do you think it’ll take him to get here?”she asked, directing the question at Reese and Brantley.
“Depends on where he is.”
“He’s stayin’ at the B and B,” she told him.
“What if he’s somewhere else?”
“What if he’s not?’she countered, worrying that she might’ve interrupted Archer’s evening.
“Then I guess it’ll take fifteen or twenty minutes.If he was ready to walk out the door.”
JJ considered that for a moment, staring at the three men in the room.She could tell they were all reluctant to say anything.She didn’t blame them.She’d been working on her reasons for being irritated, and she’d come up with many in the short time she’d been there.
“What would you like to do until then?”she prompted, wishing one of them would speak.
No one answered.
“Okay.Someone give me the basics on Archer Halligan.”
“Basics?”Brantley asked.
