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I suspected he was going to the bathroom.
I was back to sleep when my hip was gently shaken, waking me again.
I rolled and saw Cap sitting beside me in bed.
It was dark, but since he slept either naked or in his underwear, and I figured I could spy his bare chest after having fallen while spelunking, and my flashlight battery gave out, and he was in my vicinity, I could see right then his shadow looked to be fully-clothed.
Therefore, my drowsiness partially cleared in surprise.
“Got a callout,” he explained his state of attire. “Shouldn’t be long. Just wanted you to know. You can go back to sleep.”
I pushed up to sitting, resting back on a hand. “Callout?”
“Mace and Knox are into something, and they need an extra man.”
I turned to look at my Alexa.
It was after one in the morning.
I went back to him.
“At this hour?” I asked.
“Babe, this is my job, and they’re holding on me, so I have to go. I’m down to talk with you about it, but it can’t be now.”
“Okay,” I said quickly.
He moved in to brush his lips against mine. “Be back, soon as I can.”
“Okay,” I repeated.
He got up, and I watched his shadow move to the door and disappear.
I laid back in bed, still mostly dozy from sleep, but also thinking that Cap had a job that could call him out after one in the morning.
Sure, philanderers philandered at times like these (and that was what I thought most private investigation was, catching cheaters cheating).
But that wouldn’t need an extra man.
I turned my head toward the door where I saw Cap’s shadow vanish, and I thought about the gun in the waistband in the back of his pants that first night when he broke in. I thought about how he’d been hired to find Elsie Fay.
And I thought that with all that had been going on, I hadn’t had enough time to think about Cap’s job.
Honestly?
Mace, Lee, Vance, Eric, Liam and Cap all looked like they could liberate a small country with only the members of that team.
And men like that didn’t make enough bank to commission a bronze phoenix for their office if they were only catching cheaters cheat (and the like).
So, uh…yeah.
We needed a convo.
I wasn’t going to pitch a fit. He’d been super cool with me, and what I was doing wasn’t even my job.
But I had to know.
My eyes fell on my tapestry-covered wall. What was behind it, I’d looked at so much, it was burned in my brain.
