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And we could die of a heart attack too, if he could.
But Burke didn’t speak that part aloud. Didn’t have to. I knew exactly what he was thinking.
“Burke! Where the hell are you?” Rivera appeared under one of the lights on the fire station with his hands cupped around his mouth.
“Yo!” he called back.
“You got a secret girlfriend out here or what?” Rivera took a few steps toward us.
“Better than that.”
When Rivera caught sight of me in the shadows he jogged over. “You bastard.”
We slapped hands and he pulled me in for a bro hug.
“Miss me?” I flicked my chin toward the station.
“Your ugly ass? Not a chance.” He smacked my shoulder.
Brrrrrrrrinngggg.
“Shit. We gotta go,” Rivera said when the alarm sounded.
They raced toward the firehouse. Burke turned around and jogged backward. “I’ll call you.”
I jumped in my truck and jetted before Captain caught me hanging around.
When I passed by Pepper’s park, I pulled into an empty spot. Could all of these fires be connected? Or was Burke’s CSI imagination working overtime?
Everything was discombobulated and swirled in my head. If they were connected, how? And if there were no coincidences, then why was the latest fire in Pepper’s park?
I groaned. Burke had me paranoid now.
Hopefully, he’d have the name of that suspect soon, and we could put to rest all these theories. And I prayed that was all they were.
Theories.
Chapter Twenty-Three
Pepper
“I can’t open it.”
I threw down the envelope from the attorney on the kitchen table.
Miss Adeline munched on her cereal. “Then don’t.”
I stared. My mostly untouched dinner was getting soggier by the second.
“I thought you wanted me to.”
She slurped some milk from the bowl. “I’m curious, but what does it matter in the end? If that thing makes you unhappy, toss it.”
She stood, grabbed the trash can, and held it out to me.
I slumped in my chair. “I can’t throw it away either.”
“Then open it.”
