Page 124 of Hell’s Half Acre

The last thing Sorcha wanted was to add to that fury. “It was nothing.”

“I know better. All she ever wants to do is stir shit. What was she here for?”

Oh. “To stir shit. She told me I was your flavor of the week.”

The color faded from his face.

“Relax, big guy. I’m not stupid. You date less than I do. I realized what she was doing and told her thanks and that I’d set you up with a friend of mine.”

“What did she say to that?”

“Don’t know. God of thunder came storming in here before she could respond. Oh, and I think she banished the demons to Hell. Can they get back in?”

He rolled his shoulders. “Yeah. She doesn’t control that.”

That made her feel better.

Luke moved to sit in front of her desk. “Are you sure you’re okay?”

“I am. Are you?”

“No. I’m pissed. How dare she come in here and bother you.”

“Really, she didn’t bother me. At least now I know what she looks like. U-g-l-y.”

Luke smiled. “Okay. What are you working on?”

She put her desktop up on the smart board so that Luke could see the report she’d been writing. “Rory wants me to help him with this, given the fact he can’t say my partner unleashed a werewolf on his primary suspect. And he can’t add Marcia and Allison to the headless case as they were mauled by a wild animal. Thankfully, Kyle’s report says natural causes by way of animal attack as opposed to homicide. But poor Rory has two more unsolved homicides on his record.”

Luke actually hung his head. “I can’t even believe I’m going to do this for someone I loathe. My father is about to shit icicles.”

“What?”

He snapped his fingers and rewrote the report. “I’ll make sure Rory gets the evidence he needs to show the murders were done by Allison.”

That shocked her. “Really?”

“Least I can do. For someone who fights on the other team, he’s actually not a bad guy. I don’t want to see him lose his job, ’cause God only knows what they’d replace him with.”

He had a point. Better the devil you know.

“Well, growth looks good on you, big guy. I have to say that I’m impressed by the fact you no longer want to beat him into the ground.”

“I can’t help it if he’s kudzu.”

That confused her. “Kudzu?”

“Yeah, he grows on me and I can’t stop it.” Luke leaned his head back and indicated her screen with his hand. “So, are you done?”

“I am.”

“Pizza and a movie?”

He loved his pizza and she loved her movies. “Sure. Let me send this to Rory and close everything down. I’ll be up there in a few minutes.”

Luke sent in his order for their pizza, then grabbed the remote to start scrolling for a movie Sorcha hadn’t seen. An impossible task, but for some reason he always liked looking. If nothing else, they’d fall back on one of her comfort movies.

He’d just sat down on his couch when a light flashed in his room.