“Why would he do that?” Rosie asked.
“I don’t know, maybe because it’s easier to blow your brains out when you aren’t under twenty-four hour police surveillance,” Ally replied.
Okay, so, maybe you could get more honest.
The door opened and Dawn and Lee came out. Dawn scooted behind the desk looking chastened.
Hee hee.
Someone got in trouble.
Lee did a room scan, his eyes fell on me, then he did a body scan. After he ascertained I was all in one piece with no holes, blood leaking or body parts blown off, he looked at Willie.
“What happened?” he asked.
Willie ran it down for Lee.
Lee’s face got hard.
“Get Mace,” Lee told Dawn and, without delay, she picked up the phone. “They weren’t after Indy?” Lee asked Willie.
“Didn’t even look at her,” Willie replied.
“Except when she threw her ice cream cone at them,” Ally put in.
Lee looked at me and I could tell he didn’t know whether to laugh or yell.
Instead, he muttered, “Christ.”
I was pleased he found a happy medium.
“I’ll take it from here,” Lee told Willie.
Willie looked relieved. I knew he cared about me but he had ice cream smears on his backseat upholstery and he spent three hours in the mall, not even with his girlfriend racking up brownie points. He’d gone way beyond the call of duty.
“Thanks Willie,” I said to him.
“Stay safe,” he replied, then he took off.
Lee was looking at Dawn and issuing orders.
“Take the boys to the safe room and start a DVD. Get Hank on the phone and when Mace makes contact, I want to know immediately.” His eyes cut to Ally and me. “You two come with me.”
I wasn’t real fond of being bossed around by Lee but I felt it best not to kick up a fuss in front of Dawn.
Ally and I walked behind Lee to the door to the Inner Sanctuary. I wish I could say I was the kind of woman who didn’t do what I did, but I wasn’t. I twiddled my fingers at Dawn in a “nanny, nanny, foo, foo, Lee’s all mine” multi-finger wave. She totally got my meaning and her eyes became scary hard.
I was considering sticking my tongue out at her when I ran smack into Lee who’d stopped to open the door.
He looked down at me and I knew he caught the whole thing and was in my brain, again.
He shook his head and let us in.
Okay, so maybe I could be jealous-possessive too.
Lee led us to his office.
Sitting in one of the chairs, opposite Lee’s desk, tapping away at his BlackBerry was a handsome man with dark hair, blue eyes and he was wearing a seriously cool dark suit.