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“Why?”
“I want to see it.”
“How did you know Jeff was my client?” I hadn’t even drawn up the contract yet.
“I overheard you yesterday at lunch.”
“Oh, yeah.” I kept forgetting about lunch.
“And Harvey called me last night.” Doc’s eyes twinkled with mirth. “He told me about Jeff’s proposition in the ER.”
My neck flash-burned. “Harvey has a bucket mouth.”
“So you’ve said before.”
“Well, I can’t show you Jeff’s house yet. It’s not ready. We have a lot of cleaning up to do first.” A garbage truck’s worth of cleaning.
“I don’t care. I want to see it.”
As thirsty as I was for a sale, I wasn’t seeing any palm-tree-lined mirages in this housing desert. “You’re up to something, Doc.”
“I’m just curious.”
“What do you think you’ll find at Jeff’s?”
Doc shrugged. “He’s still not above suspicion.”
I agreed, but was too stubborn to let Doc know. “He’s going through a nasty divorce.”
“Harvey mentioned that.”
“His daughter is having serious issues with depression.”
“You feel sorry for him now?”
“Not to mention that he saved Addy’s life.” Well, that was a bit of an exaggeration, but he did rescue her.
“All of which makes him a more sympathetic person-of-interest.”
Doc wasn’t going to budge on this one, I could tell. Sighing, I tucked a breeze-loosened curl behind my ear. “Trust me, his house is not your style.”
“Really.” Doc caught my hand and didn’t let go. “What is my style, Violet?”
“Ummm.” I stared at the circles he was making on my palm with his thumb, feeling reverberations from his touch in too many places to count. He was scrambling my brain. “Blue.”
“Blue?” His laugh was low, deep. “I was thinking it was more vibrant, more … I don’t know …violet, perhaps.”
I looked up into his dark eyes. “You’re flirting with me.”
“You noticed, huh?” His thumb moved to the inside of my wrist, still circling.
“What are you doing, Doc?”
“Something I shouldn’t.”
“Then you’d better stop.”
“I know.” His fingers climbed up my forearm. He leaned closer, his breath quickening, matching mine.
