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“Hello, Piper,” he said, as if this were perfectly normal. “I was just talking with your sister here, about the finer points of snack foods.”
Piper looked at her sister. “Carly?”
Carly said, “He was, like, parked in the driveway, just sitting there, so I went out and asked him who he was.”
“Which is totally understandable,” Harris said to her, “but just as a word of advice from a law enforcement agent, not very safe. Next time, you should call the police if there’s a stranger in your driveway.”
“Oh, don’t worry,” Carly said. “I keep ninja stars in my pocket.”
Harris said, “Really?”
“No, not really,” Carly said with a giggle. “It would be funny if I did, though, right? Anyway, Piper, he said he was your boss and he was waiting to talk to you, so I told him he should wait in here.”
“Wait, so you just let him in?” Piper said. “That easily?”
“Yes, Piper,” Carly said, rolling her eyes, “but first I took off all my clothes and tied myself up so I would be helpless. No, silly. He showed me his badge.”
“Which you knew was real because…”
“Because I’ve seen yours, duh.”
“It is better to be safe than sorry,” Harris said. “Listen to me, sounding like a crusty old man. Now Carly, I hope you don’t mind, but I need to talk to your sister outside. FBI business.”
“Yeah, sure,” Carly said. “Talk away.”
Piper followed Harris outside, still a little thrown off by his appearance here at her house. It seemed totally out of character and against the rule book. Sure, her cover had him more or less established as her father, but still, it seemed like a chance he didn’t need to take.
Once they were outside, Harris said, “Your sister’s nice. Not what I expected.”
“Oh?”
“I pictured her as a brunette, like you, not a blonde.”
“She takes after our mom,” Piper said, than, not wanting to beat around the bush any longer, asked, “What’s going on, sir? Why are you here?”
“I’m concerned about you, Piper,” Harris said, sighing a little as he took off his glasses to fix her with a look. “A shooting is no small matter. Normally, you’d be pulled out of the field to undergo psych counseling after that kind of incident. But we can’t risk blowing your cover or ending this operation prematurely.”
“I don’t need counseling.”
“Says every single agent who needs counseling.”
“It would be a waste of time, sir,” Piper said. “I’m fine.”
“Emotions run high after something as intense as a shooting, and when emotions run high, people can make rash decisions. End up doing something reckless.”
Like hooking up with the very same man you’re investigating?Piper thought, but what she said was, “You don’t say?”
“Anyway,” Harris continued, “like I said, it’s a moot point. We can’t pull you out. Not until we have something solid on this MC.”
Not until we have something solid on the MC. Except, it was looking more and more like her instincts had been correct, that the MC wasn’t what Harris or the FBI thought. There certainly wasn’t any connection to Navarro.
But how was she supposed to drop that bomb on Harris? How would he react?
She obviously couldn’t simply blurt it out.How are you so sure they’re not in with Navarro?he’d ask.
Well, sir, after I slept with the very same MC brother that I was supposed to be investigating… rather vigorously, I might add… he told me as much. How’s that for an undercover operation?
Just as Piper was trying to figure out exactly how to bring up the disappointing news that her undercover investigation had been a giant waste of time, Harris spoke up again.
