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“Figured,” he muttered and stepped into the room.
On their bad days, they clashed.
On the good days, one could say they got along.
She gestured to the small love seat on the other side of the large nightstand. “Have a seat?”
“What angle were you working on?”
“I wasn’t. Honest. I’m guessing you know everyone else was sent off to do something?”
He caught himself before nodding. He could not stop Robin from telling her anything, and Zora hadn’t insisted on a gag order between the two women, so there wasn’t anything he could do. But he didn’t have to add fuel to the fire, so to speak.
“Anyway, I’ll take your silence as a yes. I was just looking at maps and news from the area. If Harper’s going to keep dating Robin, I want to make sure he stays alive and keeps her happy.”
It took all of Samuel’s self-control to not laugh.
Those Aegis Group bastards were cockroaches. They couldn’t be killed. He hadn’t approved of them in the beginning, but there was no denying they got the damn job done. He’d seen them come out of situations that should have been deadly with nothing more than superficial scratches.
He finally settled on, “I’m sure the team is safe.”
“You’d know better than I.” She set the tablet down and bit off the end of the beef jerky while studying him openly.
What did she see when she looked at people? How did her mind work?
She baffled him. At no point had she been the person he’d expected her to be.
“Can you answer me one thing?” she asked.
“What’s that?”
“Why isn’t Zora looking into this Maxwell Edward guy? Why?” she asked as she threw her hands up into the air.
Samuel had wondered that same thing himself but didn’t have an answer. Even if he did, he knew he couldn’t share it with Jessica. If Robin didn’t know, then Harper must have been given explicit instructions not to share details, which meant keeping Jessica in the dark was on purpose.
Jessica groaned then flopped back on the mound of pillows behind her. “There’s more beef jerky if you’d like some.”
“No, thank you.”
“Ug, I knew you wouldn’t tell me anything either but I was hoping for some reaction at the very least. You suck, you know that?”
He chuckled. How could he not?
Not for the first time he selfishly wished she’d gone into the FBI. Give her a badge and she’d be a pit bull with a bone. That tenacity of hers would make her a force to be reckoned with when it came to tracking down the real bad guys. But she’d gone into law instead, and he couldn’t find it in him to be mad about that.
He’d reviewed some of her cases as part of his background work for the undercover gig with Robin. A lot of district attorneys went for cases that would make their careers. With Jessica’s family ties, he’d assumed she would have been offered the high-profile cases. Even if she was sitting second, third, or fourth chair. Instead, he’d found a history of her focusing on child welfare cases or representing the victims of domestic violence. Cases that would get swept under the rug in terms of notoriety and weren’t going to get her anywhere. And yet, that was all Jessica had done. After being around her, he knew it had to be intentional.
He admired her.
But he couldn’t encourage her.
“Have you ever considered you’re doing more harm than good by getting involved?” he asked.
She groaned. “This again?”
“Have you stopped investigating Maxwell Edward on your own?”
She was silent for a moment. “No.”
