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“Okay,” he said. “This will be fun. Is Faith seeing someone?”
She raised her eyebrows at her husband. “Does Faith ever tell us when she is seeing someone?”
“Not usually unless it’s something that she would like to continue.” He waited a second. Again, that gave him what he wanted to know too. “Is this person somehow tied to my sister?”
Lynn raised her eyebrows again. “Damn. I don’t know how that is possible. Does this person know what is going on?”
“Your sister thinks she is so sneaky, but the more she does this, the less she is at it,” she said.
“And I’m going to have to guess who this person is because if you say a name then I’ve got the knowledge and I don’t want that. Which means I’m going to have to find out what my sister is doing and get information that way. I can handle that. Maybe we need to go out to dinner one night when we think she is at the pub.”
“She’s always there at some point,” Lynn said. “But I’ll text Liam and loop him in so he can let me know when Jolene is there.”
“You’re going to tell Liam this?” he asked. “You know Faith will be annoyed.”
“I’m only telling Liam that we want to see what Jolene has up her sleeve as Faith is getting annoyed. Best to pretend we are on Jolene’s side. Don’t you agree?”
“I’m sure my sister will see right through this, but it won’t hurt,” he said.
Besides, Lynn wanted to know more about Sawyer too because what she’d heard wasn’t all that much, and the history of his parents wasn’t too favorable.
Though she had to admit, Jolene did do well when she picked someone out.
15
My Lucky Night
“How has your week been?” Faith asked Sawyer a few days later.
She ended up taking a few hours off on Friday afternoon so she could spend it with Fred. She and Sawyer had dinner plans and she didn’t want Fred to feel like he was alone all day and then for a few hours at night.
After dinner, she was going to see about going back to Sawyer’s for a few hours. She had to tell him her plan to get Fred on board.
That thought just made her want to giggle some more, but she held it in.
“It’s been busy.”
“Are you getting anywhere with your investigation?”
“You have to be more specific than that,” he said, grinning. “I’ve got lots of open ones going on.”
“Oh. I guess I didn’t think much of it,” she said.
“There is always something. Some crime that needs to be looked into,” he said.
“Do you specialize, like murder or drugs or family-type things? I don’t know how it works.”
“I do pretty much whatever is given to me,” he said. “There are some special units and then some of us that just do it all. It’s fine. I’m not sure I’d want to be stuck and only do one thing, but it’s all negative no matter how you look at it. It’s not like I’m trying to solve a case to find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”
She laughed when he said that. “I never thought of it that way. But when you say it like that, it’s the same for me. I’m not testing things to find someone is a superhuman. It’s to find out what is wrong with them. What a depressing thought that is for both of us.”
“The difference is you don’t have a face with your evidence, right?”
“No,” she said. “I don’t. How do you deal with that?”
Their dinner came out and was placed in front of them. He shrugged. “I don’t know. I just do. Someone has to do it and I know many get burned out. But I like solving things. I like trying to find justice in the end.”
“And when you don’t?” she asked. “I mean you hear about cold cases. How about those that you know when someone is guilty, but you just don’t have the evidence or the chain of evidence was broken. You know, thrown out in court on one of those technicalities.”
