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She laughed, finished her beer, grabbed two more for her and Colton. They’d just finished a very successful investigation together and were relaxing at his place. “Don’t tease me. I might really want it.”
“I’m not teasing. I have a will. Don’t you?”
She shrugged. “I don’t have anything of value.”
“Your bike. Your condo.”
“It’ll go to my Grams.”
“Your gun collection?”
“So you’re saying if I start pushing up the daisies, you want my guns.”
“That Colt .45 you have is pretty damn sweet.”
“It’s not practical to carry, but yeah, it’s nice to have around.”
“You need a will, Kara,” Colton said, now serious. “We’re cops. More than that, we take the dangerous cases because we have no family.”
“Hey, my grandma is my family.”
“You know what I mean.”
She sipped. “I take the dangerous cases because someone has to, and they’re more fun.”
He touched his bottle to hers. “True, that.” He drained half his beer. “I’m serious about the will. The union has a template and you can use the staff lawyer, might as well take advantage considering we pay dues. You should go see him, have it written up. I did.”
“Damn, Fox, I don’t like talking about dying. You or me.”
“Then promise me you’ll write a will. You can leave everything to me or to charity or to your grandma. But you need to do something, or the courts and government will get involved and probably screw it all up.”
Or worse, she thought, my parents will try to get it.
“Deal.” She drank while Colton got up and flipped the steaks. “Do you really have a will?”
“Yep, and I’m leaving you my Harley. You can sell it if you want, but it’s a nice bike. And you get my badge.”
“Don’t.”
“Seriously. We make a good team. If I bite it, I want you to have something to remember me by.”
Maybe it was nothing. Maybe Colton lied to her about his will. Or he changed it and wrote her out of it.
Something itched in the back of her mind and she would never get back to sleep if she didn’t scratch it.
She opened her computer and went to a real estate search engine, typed in Colton’s address in Echo Park. The last time the house had been sold was ten years ago—that was when Colton bought it. It wasn’t for sale now.
Might mean nothing.
Might mean something.
Will has been avoiding you. He avoided you Monday, you had to practically hunt him down yesterday, and he hasn’t even tried to get back to you about Violet—and she’s still missing.
Colton and Will were close. Will had brought Colton into the investigation when homeless men were being murdered, maybe he brought him into this investigation.
Elena said there was an undercover operation still going.
She wouldn’t tell Kara who.
