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“I don’t know.” We stared at each other until she said, “Go to your hot guy.”
That sounded like a plan.
“Later, bitch,” I bid.
“Later.”
I got out, and she idled where she was until she saw me climbing the stairs, then she took off.
I let myself in my apartment.
The light over the stove was on, and since it was near midnight, that was it.
There was no Cap, so I headed to the bedroom to find him in bed doing something on his phone, chest bare, sheets and comforter up to his waist, Patches sleeping at his feet.
Ah.
It was good to be home.
“Successful night?” he asked me.
I slunk carefully onto the bed so as not to disturb Patches.
I settled on my belly beside him, up on my forearms.
“We think we got a lock on their recruiter, or whatever they call him. We’re gonna feed that to the powers that be so the cops can pursue it.” I paused and then shared, “And then I think we’re out.”
For the second time that day, relief washed through the face of a man in my life I cared about.
With Dad, I was glad.
With Cap, he had to suck it up.
If I got another wild hair, or Luna did, Jessie, Harlow, and we went after it, he’d have to deal.
It wasn’t like his job was behind a desk.
Of course, he got paid to do what he was doing and had been training to do it since he was fifteen.
But…whatever.
“How’d you find that?” he asked.
“Shaking an asshole down for his Rolex and giving it to a woman who works the streets, we learned tonight, buys you some shit.”
His beard twitched around his lips. “Yeah, that’s pretty much how it works with all informants. You do something for them, they do something for you. And it usually goes just like that, what you do for them is a fuckuva lot bigger than what they give to you.”
Handing over a Rolex sure was big.
Even so…
“Well, if it leads to those women being found,”—I jerked my head to the wall—“it was worth it.”
His eyes drifted to the wall and back to me.
I knew what the expression on his face said before he started, “Babe?—”
“I know, honey. They might be dead or taken somewhere we’ll never find them. Still, there are people out there who love them, so if I can find answers…”
