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“He’ll be fine. My friend there is gonna stash him someplace safe until after my trial, Just in case he decides to testify against me after all. Someplace where he can lock him in so he won’t need to be all trussed up like that. He’ll be fed and warm and perfectly fine.”
She studied him and pursed her lips.
“What? What’s wrong?” He closed his trunk, took her arm and led her back into the motel.
“Well... is that what you’re planning to do with Jim? Kidnap him and keep him locked up for the next three weeks so he can’t testify?”
He shrugged. “I don’t think anything that drastic is going to be necessary.”
“I don’t think anything that drastic is even possible,” she muttered.
He lifted his brows. “You don’t think I can handle your ex?”
“You don’t know him. He’s... tough. And stubborn.”
Vinnie shrugged. “I think I’ll be able to reason with him, Angie. I think once he hears what I have to say, he’ll agree to do whatever I ask him to.”
She looked at him for a long time.
He shrugged. “You’re hurtin’, aren’t you, hon? You need to do a line, maybe two.”
She closed her eyes. “God, yes.”
“Okay. Anything you want, baby. Let’s go inside.”
* * *
Kara had a towel on her head when she answered the knock on the front door the next morning. Then she stood there blinking at the arrangement of yellow roses that greeted her.
The roses lowered, revealing Jimmy Corona’s smile. “Morning, Kara,” he said.
She frowned, puzzled, and looked from the clock on the wall to him again. “You’re early.”
“I know. I couldn’t wait. And Ty was just about climbing the walls. I thought maybe you’d like to go out for breakfast. If you haven’t already eaten.”
“I want pancakes,” Tyler said, standing close beside his father.
She nodded, wishing she’d had time to get ready first. She’d decided to do her hair and makeup today, since jeans and a T-shirt hadn’t seemed to have any impact on Jimmy’s inexplicable attraction to her anyway. She opened the door wider so they could come inside. Tyler entered first, looking around expectantly.
“The twins aren’t here, Ty,” Kara explained. “But when we come back, we can pay them a visit if you want.”
“Okay.” He sat down in a chair. His father came inside and placed the roses, which were already in a blue porcelain vase with cherubs painted on it, in the center of the table.
“That’s really beautiful, Jimmy. You didn’t have to do that.”
“That doesn’t even scratch the surface,” he told her.
She smiled and looked down at herself. She was dressed much as she had been last night, in jeans and a T-shirt, her hair in a towel.
“Go on, go finish getting ready, Kara. I really should have called.”
She nodded. “There’s coffee made. And O.J. in the fridge, if you guys want a drink. Just help yourselves.” She headed up the stairs, almost forgetting not to run. She didn’t stop at the bathroom but instead tapped on Selene’s door. “Hey, you in there?”
“Meditating,” Selene called back.
“I’m sorry, honey. Jimmy and Ty are here and I’m nowhere near ready.”
She heard movement, then the door opened. Selene smiled when she saw the towel on Kara’s head. “Where’d you put ‘em?”
