Without a word, Mace backed out and closed the door behind him.
Lee looked at me.
“You’re hanging with the boys until I can take you home.”
“Can I hang with the boys?” Ally asked.
Lee nodded.
Ally’s face got happy.
“What boys are we talking about?” I asked. Lee had one guy in the hospital and the rest were probably going to be out rounding up bad guys.
“You have your choice, surveillance room with Monty or computer room with Brody.”
Hmm.
Tough choice.
Not.
“Surveillance room,” Ally spoke my thoughts immediately.
I thought it was prudent to inform her about Monty, just in case she got any ideas. “Monty’s married and has five kids.”
She looked at me.
“Surveillance room,” she repeated.
I nodded.
Surveillance room definitely sounded better than computer room with Brody.
“We’ll take surveillance room,” I told Lee.
* * * * *
I felt a hand lightly touch my shoulder and I woke with a start to see Vance standing over me.
I blinked at him and stared.
I was in the surveillance room and had fallen asleep in my chair.
Ally and I had made the wrong decision, the way wrong decision.
The surveillance room might seem cool, but spend more than fifteen minutes in it and it was boring as hell. I wasn’t into that kind of thing, but after thirty minutes of staring at pretty much nothing happening on the monitors, I was praying for some poke-the-nanny action just for a little excitement.
“Let’s go,” Vance said.
I looked around, I had no idea what time it was but I figured it was late, Monty was gone and Ally and I were alone in the room. Ally was staring at Vance. Even in all my years of knowing her, I noticed she was staring at Vance with a new look, one I’d never seen before. It was an oh-my-God-that-guy-is-hot mixed with an oh-my-God-what-the-fuck-is-going-on look.
My eyes turned to Vance and he was not in a flirting, grinning, hot guy mood. He was in a serious, badass, hot guy mood.
“Where’s Lee?” I asked.
“Out,” Vance replied and that was all I was going to get and the way he said it made me decide not to go for more.
I stood and as I did, Vance got tense, his body turned so he was facing the closed door as well as standing in front of me and his hand went to a gun holstered at his belt.