"Hell, she winked at me. I think she was ready to take me home with her to help her with some yardwork." Smiling, Grayson shook his head.
Kendra laughed. "Yeah, she would too. Or she would have had you help her and her twin sister stock shelves in their shop."
"So you bought him the shirt?" Ivy asked, sounding surprised.
"Yeah. They wouldn't let him in the grocery store without a shirt. 'No shirt, no shoes, no service.' They didn't have anything larger than extra-large, and if I had gotten him anything else, they were too girly. A pink unicorn shirt, a purple fairy shirt, nothing that would have worked for him."
Ivy laughed. "I would love to see him wearing one of those shirts."
The nurse came into the room. "Half an hour is up." She checked Ivy's cast. "It's all dry. You can go now." She smiled and gave her some paperwork to sign.
Grayson countersigned it since he or Marcus was her guardian when their dad wasn't available. "Okay, let's hit the road."
Kendra walked out with them, and she shared her phone number and home address with him. Then he put it on his phone.
"You don't know anything about him, really," Ivy said, as if she were the adult now in the situation. "Are you sure you want to give him your home address too?"
Kendra smiled. "After he was trying to rescue you from harm, I would say he's one of the good guys. See you when you return, Grayson. And, Ivy, take care."
"Yeah, no meeting guys online. I'll stick to guys in high school, though they can be trouble too, you know."
"How well I know," Kendra said.
"You rode here with me. Do you want me to drop you off somewhere?" Grayson asked Kendra.
“Oh, yeah, you can drop me off where I tased you. My car is parked there.”
“Will do.”
They drove in his SUV to her Toyota SUV, and she got out and thanked him for helping her take down the bail skipper again. “See you in a little while.”
“Aren’t you going to kiss her?” Ivy asked. “She did buy you a shirt, even if it’s a little too snug.”
If he was going to kiss Kendra, he wanted it to be his idea, and right now it didn’t seem appropriate. Certainly not in front of his kid sister, as she had suggested. “See you, Kendra.”
Then he waited for her to wave goodbye and get into her car. Once she did, he drove off toward Whitefish.
“She was waiting for that kiss, you know.” Ivy sat back against the seat.
“Quit trying to play matchmaker.”
“I like her after I got past the part where she tased you. I hope you’ll take some time to date her when you return. See? Something good came out of me running off.”
“Everything bad could have happened. Don’t excuse your running off for any reason as a good thing.”
Ivy sat in silence for a long time, then finally said, “I’m sorry. Thanks for coming after me.”
“If you ever need to talk about anything, you can. Don’t ever feel like you can’t.”
“So about Kendra…”
He glanced at his sister, whose mischievous look showed how intrigued she was by his meeting and working with Kendra. “Except that subject.”
“Hey, Amy, I need you and Cedric to help me locate a man who kidnapped a teen girl,” Kendra said as she called her psychic friend, who was a private investigator. “She’s safe now, but can we meet, or are you busy?”
“I’m busy, but I can sure look into the case. I take it Rowland’s working on it,” Amy said.
Kendra knew she still had some reservations about Rowland after he didn’t take her parents’ murder seriously, believing they had just been involved in a car accident. Once that had been resolved, Amy still held a grudge.
