by Lyn Brittan
She explained everything. The matching scents, Zed Corlin’s obsession and everything Baron had told her about Nikki’s death.
Jack shifted back first and stalked to his jeans, now ripped to pieces. He picked up his phone and gun from the strips of cloth. Still naked, he held the cell with one hand and the firearm with the other. It was trained directly at the shifting Baron. “It’s Jack,” he said to the person on the other end of the line. “Run the name Zed Corlin and tell me what you know.”
She slid over to Baron’s side while they waited. His arm latched around her, face still red and veins popping. He looked like a man about to lose it. Smelled like one too. Jack’s head jerked up and he lowered his weapon.
Kate didn’t.
Jack smiled.
Kate didn’t.
“Zed Corlin is under investigation for the murder of one Nikki James. Her case has been reopened.” Jack tossed his phone to the floor. “My bad.”
Baron blew up. “Your bad? I wouldn’t have called you if I’d done something wrong. If Zed had tied both women to me, it’d take the heat off him. Fuck it. Shoot him, Kate.”
Jack cracked his neck as his bones popped back into place. “You’re pissed. I get it.”
“Pissed?” Baron stepped forward, chest heaving. She calmed him down the only way she knew how. With a kiss. It might have worked, if Jack had shut up.
“The guy’s a bad seed. Hell, according to central records, even his mother put out a restraining order against him. Some poor lady named Theresa.”
Baron rocked back against the wall, repeating the name in haggard breaths. She almost asked what it meant, then remembered the story of Nikki’s faithful maid and laid her head on his chest. Jealously and madness led them all right here.
But they’d survived it.
“It’s over now, Baron. It’s all over.”
Epilogue
A ringing phone yanked Johanna to the hostess station. “Lucky Capone’s Grill.”
She strained to take the reservation over Kate’s growling and Jack’s equally thundering response in their Argument of the Day. Baron’s head popped out from the kitchen and the combatants retreated to their corners, arms folded and lips twitching.
Such was Johanna’s new life and it was a damned good one. She had her man, her sister, a new career and a new sense of self that came with managing all those things. She’d come into her own and all because some silly wolf needed a business license so long ago. Now, it was a time for peace. A time to grow. She couldn’t think of a single thing that could ruin her mood…
“You’ve lost your friggin’ mind!”
…not even Kate completely losing her shit.
The whole restaurant turned to see her sister toss a glass of red wine into Jack’s face, before storming out the door. Her gaze shifted from the back of her sister’s head to the grinning policeman. His hands were raised, one pointing to the other. “Maybe I copped a feel.”
“Oh, Jack!”
He winked and took off after Kate.
Baron came up behind her and sighed against her shoulder. “I haven’t banned them from our restaurant yet.”
“I know.”
“That’s how much I love you.”
“I know that too.”
Then he leaned down to kiss her before ducking back into the kitchen.
In other words, a normal Friday afternoon in Miles, New York.
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Lyn grew up in the New Orleans and decided to live like her heroes, James Bond and Indiana Jones. She wasn’t totally successful and never had to shoot her way out of a hotel bedroom. She’s still coming to terms with it. She writes Young Adult and New Adult as Pamela Lyn.
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