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Kelsey rolled her eyes.
Jessica turned her head and looked up at Robin. “I just said that out loud, didn’t I?”
Robin laughed. She didn’t want to, but the moment was absurd and so very Jessica that she couldn’t help it. Robin leaned forward, bracing her elbows on the bed rail, and laughed until tears leaked out of her eyes.
“You have to stop,” Jessica begged. “It hurts to laugh. It hurts a lot.”
“You two are a hot mess,” Kelsey said. “And yes, I am short. Thanks for pointing that out, Goldilocks.”
Jessica swiped at her face. “I like you.”
Kelsey grinned at that. Robin had to agree, the petite woman was likable. But Robin couldn’t trust her.
“So, who are you?” Jessica asked.
“I’m Kelsey, I work for the FBI.” Kelsey’s gaze slid toward Robin. “I’m also dating Logan Muller.”
She said that like it meant something. Robin didn’t get the double meaning, and she didn’t care to.
“Did you hear?” Jessica turned her face back to Robin. “Daar made it through surgery.”
She shuddered recalling the gruesome sight of her uncle’s partially missing face far too well. “I heard. I’m not sure how.”
“I mean, yeah, he’s alive, but I’m not sure I’d read too much into that,” Kelsey said slowly. “He’s breathing on his own, but from what I understand he’s still in bad shape. You’ll want to talk to the doctors.”
Robin shook her head. “I don’t think so.”
Yesterday she’d climbed in the ambulance out of anger and some misguided sense of loyalty to the man who’d caused all of this. Uncle Daar was not a good person. This was merely proof of that. She would have to know his condition eventually, but she didn’t have to care for him. Not after what he’d done.
“Sounds to me like he might never wake up.” Jessica’s words were slurred and laborious, but it was good to see her this lively. Especially after yesterday.
Robin squeezed Jessica’s hand and stared at the sheets. “The world might be a better place if he doesn’t.”
“I’m torn between wanting justice and just wanting him gone,” Jessica admitted.
Kelsey chimed in with her own sad smile. “Nothing wrong with wanting both.”
They were all quiet for a moment, sitting with those feelings. Robin knew marginally more than she had yesterday about Uncle Daar. None of it was good. And only more was going to come out as things progressed.
“Are we going to talk about the elephant?” Jessica asked after several moments.
“The elephant?” Robin asked slowly.
Jessica turned her face toward Robin. “Harper?”
Robin’s body went cold, and she tasted bile on the back of her throat. At the same time, her heart did a summersault while a sense of yearning filled her.
“I think I should leave,” Kelsey muttered.
“Don’t you go anywhere,” Jessica said in an almost crystal clear voice. She slurred a little at the end. “You know shit, don’t you?”
Kelsey shoved her hands into her pockets and her face twisted up. “I really think participating in a conversation like this is a conflict of interest. I work with Harper. It’s because of Harper and his team that I’m alive. I’m dating Harper’s direct boss. Plus, as FBI, I have a vested interest in gaining your trust so you might help us.”
“Might?” Jessica snorted. “There’s no might about it, right Robin?”
“Uh…”
Kelsey’s brows rose, but she didn’t rat Robin out.
