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“We covered that already. You seemed interested a few minutes ago.” I lamely shrugged. “You know playing coy will do the opposite of keeping me away. Spill it, Walker.”
I grinned at her true words. “We met the other night at this posh place. Well, the night you and I went to Picadilly to gather intel.”
Her brows furrowed in thought. “Really? I don’t remember seeing her there. And you were with me the entire time.”
“Well...” I rubbed my neck, shifting my weight between my legs. “Remember when I went to the bathroom so you could talk to the waiter? I was returning to our table when I found her at the bar. We talked a little.”
She gasped dramatically. “I didn’t know my Boo was that fast. You’re good.” Her voice carried a note of wonder. “So when are you meeting her again? What’s her name?”
“That’s the thing...I don’t know.” It was my turn to be frustrated.
“Just call her and set a date.” If it were that easy.
“I don’t have her phone number. I don’t even know her name.”
“What do you mean? That’s the second time you talked, how come you don’t have that information yet? Fundamental information, I might add.”
I huffed, annoyed at myself. “I forgot to ask her. Both times.”
We stayed quiet for a few seconds. Until she snorted. “I stand corrected. You’re dumber than I am.”
“I got distracted.” That lame excuse was all I got.
“By what? What on Earth could have distracted you enough to not even ask the most basic of questions?”
It was hard to answer that. What could I say? I was distracted by her eyes? By her beauty? By how my body reacted at the sight of her?
I glanced at Mia, only to be met with her watchful eyes. “This woman got to you, huh?”
“That’s insane. We’ve talked two times, and I don’t even know her name.”
“Because you were too entranced to remember asking.” I had no response to that.
Except… “You thought I was interested in that scared girl from the guy’s table? Jesus, Mia, she’s barely legal.”
“That’s what I said,” she exclaimed. “That’s when I realized we were talking about different things.” She looked at our full cart. “I think we’ve got everything we need.”
“I don’t think we need everything we’ve got.”
She raised one shoulder. “You never know.” She picked Gabe up, kissed his pudgy cheek, and lightly tapped his butt twice. “Time to go home.”
“We takeevewithing?” His eyes rounded in worry.
“Everything, kiddo. But your mommy will decide when you can have it. Deal?” He nodded happily, and I pitied Haley for having the mission of controlling her son’s ingestion of sugar. “So let’s go, or she’ll send a search party for us.”
We headed to the cashier, and I thought our previous conversation was over. But it’s never over with Mia. “It’s interesting that you met at Picadilly, in Saving Grace, a few days ago, and ran into her by chance just now.” She glanced at me. “No one would travel a few towns over just to go to the market here.” Where was she going with it? “Keep your eyes open. It’s quite probable your nameless girl lives here.”
I couldn’t answer, and she wasn’t expecting me to.
Was she right? Was my Forest living here?
And why did that thought make me so happy?
As the days went by, our frustration grew. Despite the information we gathered, we weren’t any closer to figuring out what those men intended.
We stayed most of our time in the company, trying to crack questions and come up with answers, but we seemed to have reached a dead end. If we weren’t on the field dealing with clients, we were all over this case.
Despite our aggravation, I was grateful.
