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“She doesn’t know you did this?” Alex asked. That same damn grin was on his face.
“No,” he said. “Would you have told Jennie?”
“Yeah,” Alex said. “Because Jennie’s entire life Griffin had been doing things without telling her. I wouldn’t do the same thing because I know how much she hates it.”
“Avery didn’t have the same situation,” he said. “There’s never been much of a man in her life.”
“Ever?” Alex asked.
“Her father has been gone for years and she doesn’t talk to him. Her mother seems solid though. Stubborn to a fault and Avery gets it there. Her freaking ex was a piece of work.”
No reason to go into details. Avery had told him how the ex was now expecting a child and she’d thought it was funny. Then she’d explained how Kurt was always prim and proper. No babies out of wedlock for him and it was happening.
No one would ever say Carter was prim and proper.
Hell, right now he hated that they didn’t live together and would love nothing more, but they each had homes and though his place was the same size as hers and it’d be fine, he didn’t want to uproot Josie.
And Avery was close to the clinic. Just so many things in his mind that he wasn’t sharing.
It was too soon anyway.
“What are you doing now?” Alex asked.
He looked at his watch. “Avery will be taking lunch in forty minutes. I’ll go over and talk to her.”
“You’re not waiting until the end of the day?” Alex asked.
“Would you?”
“Hell no,” Alex said. “But I wouldn’t wait forty minutes either.”
“Because you’re the hothead when it doesn’t come to work.”
* * *
“You did what!?”Avery all but snarled at him in her office during her lunch hour.
“I reached out to Griffin Zale.”
“Who is that?” she asked.
“He’s married to my distant cousin Penelope. He does all the security for Bond Casino and he’s Alex’s future brother-in-law. He can find anything on anyone. No one asks how.”
“And you thought you could ask him to look into my life?” she asked.
“Not your life. Mike’s,” he argued. “Don’t you want to know what is going on there? You said that you looked into him.”
“I did,” she said. “And I didn’t find anything.”
“Yeah. Well, he’s on the island.”
“No,” she said, shaking her head. “You’re mistaken.”
“I’m not,” he said. “And I know you’re pissed, but I’m glad I did what I did. No one wants to be blindsided and if I didn’t do what I had, you would have been.”
“I don’t know that he will come see me,” she said. “He has my number and hasn’t reached out in months. No lawyer has contacted me either. I figured he gave up.”
“No one gives up when they are desperate,” he said.
