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Chapter Nine
Ransom
“I’m coming with you.”
I sipped my coffee and looked out the window over the sink.
“Ransom,” Luna called. “I’m talking to you.”
I never really had the chance to enjoy Luna’s house before. The times I had been here were at night, and when the sun came up, it was out the door I went. She had a rather large backyard and even had a birdfeeder that had birds buzzing around it. “I hear you, Luna.”
“Then why aren’t you answering me?”
Because I didn’t want to piss her off by telling her no. “I’m thinking.”
“Thinking about what?” she demanded.
How the hell I was going to tell her no? I was headed to work, not out on some picnic. I know she wanted to be a part of finding this killer, but it was my job. I couldn’t take just anyone with me. “Don’t you think you should be resting more?” I asked.
“I don’t think I can rest anymore, Ransom. My concussion is gone, and for the tenth damn time, I don’t need my wrist to walk.” She tapped her feet around. “Both of my legs are perfectly fine, and I took my pain pills. Let’s go.”
I shook my head. “You know I’m going to say no, Luna, and then you’re going to get mad at me.”
“Then don’t tell me no,” she insisted. “I can help you find this guy, Ransom. I heard his voice.”
“You do know his voice, but it’s not like we’re going to knock on everyone’s door and ask to speak to them until you find the killer?”
“Well, no, but I can be there when you question people. For all you know, you’ve talked to the killer, and you didn’t even know it,” she insisted.
“That is true, but that isn’t going to make me bring you with me. I’m working this case, Luna, but I also have other things I need to do at the station. You’re staying here with Bear today.”
“That is just dumb,” she spat. “You brought Bear here to find the killer, not be my babysitter.”
“I know. For today, he is staying with you, and tomorrow, your brother will be here.”
Luna stomped her foot. “You didn’t!”
I glanced over at her. Yeah, she was pissed. She didn’t seem too bad until I had mentioned that her brother was coming over tomorrow. “You were the one who just said that I need Bear to help find the killer. Pie will be over around eight tomorrow and will stay with you until I get home.”
“I should have chosen to stay at the clubhouse then if you’re just going to make my brother watch me.”
I shrugged and finished the rest of my coffee. “If that’s what you think, but you wouldn’t have had your bed there.”
She wrinkled her nose and folded her arms over her chest.
“Is that the same bed you had…before?” I asked.
“Wouldn’t you like to know,” she growled.
“I’ll find out,” I laughed.
“Uh, I don’t think so.”
I set my cup in the sink and reached for my wallet on the counter. “I think so.” Luna put up a good fight. The thing of it was that I did, too.
“You’re not getting back into my bed, Ransom.”
I leaned close to her face and locked gazes with her. “You say that now.”
“You don’t get to tell me you’re going to be in my bed.”
That wasn’t what I was telling her. I would never force my way back into Luna’s bed. She was going to invite me back in. “I’m a patient man, Luna.” I reached up and brushed her hair behind her ear. “And I know good things come to those who wait.”
“Never,” she mumbled.
“We’ll see.” I stepped back and shoved my wallet in my pocket. “See you tonight, babe.”
I called to Bear that I was leaving and walked out the front door without a goodbye or another word from Luna.
This was going to be an uphill fight with her, but I knew it would be worth it in the end.
I just didn’t know when the end would be.
