his legs.
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean he knew Samuel was getting any on the side. The old man was fucking his kid's wife. Power and control in the extreme. He was the one in charge. He was the one with the power. It got old, and Sebastian drops the wife when he gets bored, but he dropped her, she didn't drop him."
Brock followed the path Kallie was laying down. "So, Cynthia contacts Daddy and blackmails him?"
"She could, or she could contact someone at Samuel's company and threaten to go public unless she's paid off."
Brock followed her thought path. "And someone at the company contacts Daddy."
Kallie nodded. "Cynthia could've threatened to out Samuel’s affairs."
"Dawson and Samuel, or hell, any of the others and Samuel. Sam's married. If he gets outed cheating on his wife, that's a stain on his public image. One that has been carefully crafted..."
"By Daddy." Kallie finished his thought.
"Fuck, its thin." Brock rubbed his face.
"But it makes sense."
"We'll need to be very careful."
"We do." Kallie chuckled when she folded her arms over her knees and stared up at him. "Damn, Detective King, you sure know how to show a woman a good time, don't you?"
He chuckled and grabbed his cell to throw Davidson a text. The man hit him right back. "He's tied up. He'll be here in twenty."
"Twenty whole minutes to ourselves. Whatever will we do with the time, Detective?" Kallie leaned back against the wall and watched him.
He dropped to his hands and knees from the chair he was sitting on. He crawled the three feet to where she was leaning back against the wall and flopped into position beside her. "If we didn't have boundaries in place, I could think of countless ways to pass the time."
"Countless?" Kallie dropped her hand, and he grabbed it, weaving his fingers through hers.
"I'm sure there is a limit to my imagination. That's when you can take over." He held her hand and kissed the back of it. It felt so damn natural.
"I'm afraid I'm going to wake up and all this will have been a dream." She leaned over and dropped her head on his shoulder.
"God, that would suck." Brock chuckled at her snort of agreement. "You know I'm probably going to fuck up. I've only had a couple relationships, and they ended because of the job."
Kallie shifted so she was leaning into him more, and he shifted, breaking their hand hold, to drop an arm behind her, pulling her into his side. "We both know the hours and commitment it takes to do this job. That's a plus."
"We both have this job, which means twice the shit to deal with." He kissed the top of her head and closed his eyes, leaning his cheek against her hair. This simple connection was everything. He'd arrived at the mirage he'd been chasing all his life. An oasis of peace and contentment.
"So what? It makes spending time together more important." She shrugged. He felt the lift of her shoulder against his ribs.
"It will. Do you have any regrets? Dating a cop again?"
Her fingers stopped the lazy trail up and down his thigh. "No. See, Rich and I met at the academy. We dated off and on for… eight years. When I made detective, he was pretty fucking jealous. So much so we broke up. Two years later, he gets his gold badge and all of a sudden he's back. I knew it was a mistake, but he was one of those guys who'd charm you. And yeah, I had all the warning bells and whistles going off. I ignored them because I didn't want to be alone. Our marriage was difficult. I wasn't happy, and neither was he. We probably wouldn't have survived him coming back from undercover. We'd both changed and grown."
She moved slightly and twisted to look at him. "With us? I don't have a single warning bell going off. There is nothing telling me I'm making a mistake here. You aren't him. I'm not the woman I was. Going through hell changes a person. I'll never let another person control me or my life, but I do want someone to walk through life with me. If that turns out to be you, then good. If we last for a short time, I'll have been glad to have been with you. No regrets."
Brock stared down at her big brown eyes. "You are so incredibly beautiful." He dropped his lips to hers, brushing over them softly. She chased his