Temptation Trails - Page 142
It made me nervous.
“Thank you for the flowers. They’re beautiful. I think we have a vase around here somewhere.”
“Jack’s making me take a few days off.”
“Oh. That’s good.” I ran my hands up his broad chest. “You need it. You’ve been working too hard.”
He nodded absently, and I could tell he didn’t agree. “He thinks the case might be getting to me.”
“Is it?”
“No.” His voice was soft but resolute. “It’s not. But I’ll do it if it gets him off my back.”
The hollows beneath his eyes betrayed his lack of sleep. I was worried about him. “You look tired.”
He glanced at Mila. “Can I talk to you outside?”
I didn’t think she’d hear anything, but I nodded. We stepped out the back door into the summer sun.
“Someone was in our house last night,” he said.
Our house?
Was that how he saw it? Did that mean he wanted me to stay, like, permanently?
Wait. The other part sank in as I blinked at him.
“Someone broke in?”
“I heard them, but by the time I got downstairs, they were gone.”
“Are you sure?”
He nodded once.
“Who’s going over there to investigate? Is it like the thing at my house and they’ll assign someone else to the case?”
“I didn’t call it in.”
“Why?”
He glanced away and let out a breath. “They won’t find anything.”
“Are you sure? Shouldn’t they look?”
“If I thought it would help, believe me, I’d ask for the entire forensics team to tear the house apart. But it won’t.”
“Do you think they took something? Like last time?” I almost didn’t want to ask. “Is this like the cold case again?”
“I don’t think so. The only other thing Jasmine got was a bouquet of flowers. But yes, they took something.”
“How do you know?”
“They left it on your car.”
My stomach turned over. “What was it?”
“One of the Timberbeast coasters. I have a bunch of them in the house.”