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“What?” Liam cringed. “Onpizza?”
I laughed. “No silly, to bait the traps. Raccoons apparently love them. Or so I’ve heard.”
“Hmm, we’ll have to pick some up then,” Liam agreed. “I still kinda wish you were a marshmallow on pizza girl, though.”
“And why’s that?”
“Because it sounds interesting. And you’d probably make me try it.”
I stopped walking and crossed my arms. “Are you saying I’m not interesting?”
“No, of course not—”
“And I’ddefinitelymake you try it.”
He looked good, all shower-casual and ready to relax. After chasing the little ones up and down wooded trails and across the duck pond all day, I was too.
We finally entered the room where we’d seen the raccoons, which looked very different in the sun’s dying light. Liam inspected the walls, and showed me some of the damage that had been done. But with a place this old, it was hard to tell old damage from new damage.
“So is that my present?” I asked, nodding toward the traps.
“What?”
“Duncan said you were bringing something home for me.”
Liam grinned as he set the first spring-loaded trap into place. “No, not at all.”
“So what is it then?”
“Be patient a little longer,” he said, “and we’ll show you in a bit.”
We.Now I was definitely intrigued. Whatever it was involved Julius too.
“So where’s Duncan off to?” I asked, changing the subject.
“Denver.”
“I knowthat,” I rolled my eyes. “But why?”
“Work stuff,” Liam said awkwardly. “He… has to meet some people.”
“Military people?”
I watched as he considered something before answering. “For the most part, yes.”
He set the second trap, centering the bread between the trap’s two entrances. Now that we’d stopped moving, the room was starting to smell like SPAM and cat food. It wasn’t a good smell.
“Fine,” I said, with an exaggerated sigh. “You get to know all about me, but I’ll just speculate about what you guys do.”
It came off a little bratty, but I didn’t care. I wanted to see how he reacted.
“C’mon Delilah,” he replied, wiping his hands with the towel. “It’s not like that.”
“It’s exactly like that,” I said. “But—”
“What if I told you what we do can be dangerous?”
I looked up at him, and saw that he was being genuine. I shrugged my shoulders.
