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used to dealing with other people’s shit.”
Bourne flipped Nathan off and he chuckled.
“I’ll go down with Adam from the sixth floor. We’ll rappel down, I’ll pry open the door enough to get the bang in, and Adam will toss it. Then I’ll try not to shut his hand in the door when I close it,” Sammy offered.
“Thanks,” I drawled.
He grinned and winked. “Anything for you, Adam Madam.”
I rolled my eyes at the familiar nickname.
The men of the SWAT team had started calling me that a couple of months ago when a little old lady had said those exact words to me after I’d helped her cross the road downtown.
Unfortunately, it’d stuck.
“Let’s get this done.”
Chapter 16
You win some, you lose some.
-days when you drop food onto your boobs
Amelia
“Everything is okay?” I asked for the fifth time as I got myself ready to go.
I was wearing black Rockstar jeans that were skintight, a black wifebeater, a hot pink bra, and combat boots—ones that my sister had luckily been able to salvage from my Chevelle once it was towed to Free. Free being my brother’s business. His secret business that helped battered and abused women and children find different lives and hide from their old ones.
To finish off the ensemble, I straightened my hair and then slipped a backward-facing ballcap onto my head to hold my hair out of the way.
“It’s good,” Adam said. “Just a little rope burn on my arm. The guy’s in custody, and he’s gonna be spending some much-needed time in the psych ward. Hopefully for forever.”
I snorted. “Hopefully.”
On that word, I walked to King and gave her kisses.
“Are you kissing my dog again?” Adam asked, sounding amused.
“I don’t know what made you think that,” I lied.
“I can hear her panting. Unless that’s you,” he teased.
I looked down at King, who was indeed panting, and shrugged.
“Maybe,” I said as I gathered my car keys and headed for the door, thankful that my car hadn’t been damaged by the fire. “Did you ever get lunch?”
“Getting it right now,” he said. “Four hours later.”
I scrunched up my nose. “What time are you off again?”
“Eight,” he answered. “I’m gonna get someone to drop me off there then I can hang until it’s time for you to get off shift at twelve.”
I instantly felt my heart stutter in my chest. “You don’t have to do that, Adam.”
“No,” he agreed. “But I want to. Rogan is giving me a bad feeling.”
Him and me both, which was why I’d called my dad to talk to him about this restraining order.
“My dad said that if Rogan shows, I can’t talk to him or even get my friend to talk to him. No third-party involvement at all. Also, he’s filing a counter restraining order on my behalf against Rogan. He said that I needed one to make him stay away from me. He was getting it expedited to the judge just before I hung up with him,” I told him as I made my way to my car.
“I have no idea how that works,” Adam admitted. “But I hope, for your sake, that you don’t need the counter restraining order. But, for some reason, I think that your dad is right. He’s not going to let this go. Did your dad have any luck finding that hacker?”
I sighed as I bleeped the locks on my car and slid inside.
“No,” I admitted. “But he’s asking around. Dad made it sound like if the hacker wanted to help us, he would. Any luck on your parents’ end?”
Adam’s parents were actually extremely adept with computers as well. They had skills finding out things that most people couldn’t. Sadly, they mostly liked to stay above the law and not do anything overtly illegal.
Which was where the hacker would be hiding.
“No,” he sighed. “I did contact Janie, though. She’s even better at finding things than they are. If my parents can’t find Hunt, Janie will. I just don’t know if it’s going to be in time before Rogan does something stupid.”
I blew out a breath.
“Tomorrow, I’m going to do nothing but lay in your bed. Reserve my strength,” I teased.
There was a long moment of silence and then, “What do you need to reserve your strength for?”
I grinned as I reversed out of the driveway. Only when I was moving forward, and my phone finally connected to the Bluetooth speaker that allowed me to use the phone hands-free, did I answer.
“Because I don’t feel like we’ve gotten the time we deserve lately.