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“I would be if I was actually the first to find out.”
“You found out right alongside me. That’s something.” I slapped him on the shoulder good-naturedly.
I watched him grit his teeth in anger. The man really needed to kick back with a bag of Funyuns and chill.
“Can we just get out of here?”
I nodded, excited to get home now that a baby was on the way. But I didn’t miss the conversation going on behind me.
“Let’s hope he doesn’t go down the rabbit hole again,” Red muttered.
“Yeah,” Cash huffed. “It’s not like Zoe can be pregnant every time there’s a crisis.”
37
ELI
“Are you really giving up?” Red asked as we drove into town.
We were back in our routine, going out on jobs and saving lives…yada, yada, yada. It had been two agonizing weeks without her. So many times I had picked up the phone, but I didn’t dial her number. I just couldn’t do it. I still couldn’t believe she walked away from me, that she called her father to save her. Or that her father was Secret Service. I had completely missed that one.
“Eli.”
“Huh?” I turned to him, ignoring the smug look on his face.
“I asked if you were really giving up. It’s not really your style.”
“I think she made it pretty clear that she doesn’t want me. Her father shot me.”
“It was a shoulder wound.”
“He hit an artery. I wasn’t even allowed to do anything but run comms on our last job. What fun is that?”
“Yeah, because this is all about work.”
“Well, it’s not about her,” I grumbled.
“Listen, it was a lot to take in. I mean, let’s say it was just the bomb. That alone would have been enough to scare someone away, but then there was everything after that.”
I shook my head. “I’m not sure it scared her away. She said something about IRIS saying she could do the laundry and be the maid. I have no idea what that was about. Is that the reason she left?”
He laughed. “Leave it to IRIS to fuck everything up. That’s not exactly every girl’s dream job. But I doubt it was just that. I’m sure it was just too much at once.”
“And you would recommend I run after her,” I laughed. “I’m not sure how that would turn out.”
“Hey, it’s gotta be better to give it one last shot than to walk away and never know if it’s really over.”
“What would I even say to her?”
“That you love her. You do love her, don’t you?”
He looked at me like he wasn’t sure. I, on the other hand, was one hundred percent certain that she was the only woman for me. “You know what it’s like when you find someone that just fits so well with you?”
“Of course. I have Zoe. Even if she does have an unhealthy obsession with Fox,” he added under his breath.
“And she drives you so crazy you want to throttle her, but at the same time, she’s this fascinating person that you wouldn’t dare change. Because changing even one thing about her would alter everything you love so much about her. It would be like living in the tropics but never having rain. Or living in the desert but never having sand. You know what I mean?”
He was silent on the other side of the vehicle, and I looked over, expecting him to be tearing up or something. Instead, he was looking at me like a deranged lunatic.
