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“I haven’t,” I quietly said, and kept my gaze on him. “Are you offering?”
“Things are getting warm in here,” Lulu said, rising from her seat, “and that is very much our cue to exit.”
Connor just smiled... wolfishly.
“Do we have a plan for tomorrow?” Theo asked.
“We check if the searches have found anything,” Connor said, “and we talk to Beyo and we see where that leads.”
We walked to the cabin door. They’d moved the RV to a larger lot about forty yards from the cabin.
“You want me to walk you back to the RV?” I asked. “Or Connor can.”
“Oh, I’m not going back to the RV.”
I shifted my gaze to Connor, lifted my brows. “Why not?”
“Because I’m not going near the cat.” He looked up, then toward the window. “She was staring at me through the window.”
“She was looking outside,” Lulu said. “You just happened to be there.”
“She had malice in her eyes.”
“She always has malice in her eyes,” Lulu said. “It’s her nature.” She rose. “Come on, Lis. You can walk me back. You’re brave enough to face her.”
“I live with her,” I said. “She knows where I sleep. Seeing her through a window’s the easy part.”
***
The air had cooled by the time we walked outside, a nice breeze flowing off the lake. It was a hint of the winter to come, which would be even harsher here than in windblown Chicago.
Theo stayed a few paces behind me and Lulu, giving us space to talk.
“He’s afraid of her,” Lulu said as we walked across a field of overgrown grass. I worked to not think about what might be sliding through it.
“He has no reason to be afraid,” I said. “He’s enormous, as a man and a wolf.”
Lulu snickered. “Like you’d know.”
“Context clues,” I said with a grin.
“Look, from a psychic standpoint, when you get down to the attitude and the magnificence, she weighs a ton.”
I glanced at her. “Why are you kissing up to the cat?”
“I’m doing no such thing. I merely recognize her worth. And her very acute sense of hearing.”
I looked up toward the RV. Eleanor of Aquitaine had planted herself in a windowsill, watching, waiting. “She hid something again, didn’t she?”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
I laughed, low and easy. “She did. She hid something you need, and you’re trying to get it back. What was it?”
Lulu rolled her eyes. “My screen, okay? She took my screen, and I have no idea where she put it.”
“Of course she did.”
***
