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He still hadn’t noticed.
“I love you,” he growled and pulled me down for a kiss.
I stuck both of my knees into the couch and hugged him tight.
Then, leaned backward and popped the string of his eye patch against the side of his face.
“I love you, too,” I teased.
Then I was gone.
“I left you dinner,” I said. “It’s in the fridge. And don’t go anywhere without JP.”
He snorted. “I’d never forget my best girl.”
And he wouldn’t.
They’d grown exceptionally close in the last three months that he’d been there.
They were now thick as thieves.
He wouldn’t ever forget her.
I trusted her more with him than I did myself.
As I drove the eight hours to the indictment, I thought about nothing else than getting back home.
But when I got there, I was actually excited.
“You there finally?” Kobe asked as I phoned him to tell him I’d made it.
Tim came out onto Anthony’s porch and waved.
I got out of my car and waved with my elbow, keeping the phone pressed to my ear.
“Yes,” I said. “This time, I’m actually here. Not stopping for the bathroom.”
He snorted. “You need to cool it on the drinks on the way home.”
If he only knew…
“Love you, Kobe. I’ll talk to you before I go to bed.”
He growled something to me that sounded an awful lot like “you better.”
Then we hung up and I hugged my brother.
Ant looked at me with narrowed eyes. “Why do you look so different?”
I burst out into giggles.
Then told him everything.
• • •
“I would like to call…” the prosecutor called out, looking directly at me.
I didn’t hear the words he said after that over the buzz of anticipation in my ears. But I knew he’d called me.
