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“Only the jewelry heist went wrong.”
“Yeah, and I’m pretty sure the cartel is trying to clean up loose ends, which means everyone who was there that day.”
“But we don’t know anything about them. We don’t even know for sure that it is the cartel that is killing people. Do we?”
“You’re right, we don’t, but they also don’t know if Len or Chuck said anything in the café about what they were doing or who it was for. They’d want to silence everyone to keep it all quiet.”
“Did the detective say that?”
He shook his head. “No, that’s my theory.”
I lifted my glass and paused. “Yeah, well, I don’t like your theory.”
“I know,” he said, and for a few minutes, we were quiet. “Jake only canceled you going because of what is going on right now. If you had tried to leave, the police would have taken you into custody so that they knew where you were for the preliminary hearing.”
“They would have arrested me to keep me safe?”
“They would have put you into protective custody. I figured that you’d rather put up with me for a little while than have to do that. I wasn’t sure what would have happened to your mother if that had happened.”
I rubbed my hands over my face; it was still tingling from the alcohol. “Oh, my god! My mother! What if they do something to hurt her?”
“We can protect her, Maggie, but she’s going to need to stay here in the house with us.”
“What if I can get her moved into the nursing home early? I was already making plans to have her in there while I was traveling. A few days early shouldn’t hurt. Maybe it will protect her.”
“It might, especially if they don’t know about her, but they probably already know about her.”
“What do you think I should do?”
“I can’t answer that, Mags. That has to be your choice.”
I grabbed Greg’s hand. “Greg, I can’t have her hurt in this. I don’t think she should be here.”
“Then tomorrow, let’s see if we can get her moved into the nursing home.”
“Okay, but what are we going to do?”
“You and me?”
“Yeah.”
“We’re going to hang out, stay out of trouble, and see if the cops find this guy.”
I laughed. “You know, I expected you to say that we were going to come up with a plan and find these people.”
Greg chuckled. “No, Maggie, my days of looking for trouble are over. I just want to make sure you are safe. Plus, I think I owe you an apology.”
I peaked a brow. “You owe me an apology? For what?”
“For what I said last night, for how I treated you. I should never have said or done any of that.”
I didn’t want him to regret last night. Yeah, he said a few things that had hurt, but the sex had been incredible. So incredible, I was already wondering if we might be able to do a little more of it while we were stuck here at my house. I pushed away from the table and stood. “You don’t need to apologize for that, Greg.”
I started to step away, and he grabbed my wrist. “I do, Maggie. You deserved better than that. I treated you harshly, practically forced myself on you, and then verbally attacked you.”
I threw my head back and laughed. “Did you not notice that I was a willing participant, Greg? You hardly had to force anything.”
“It shouldn’t have happened, Maggie.”
