"How can you be sure of that?"
"Because he was a good guy, and good guys don't trash you just because you turned them down."
Micah was idling in front of one of the parking garages on Pear Tree Lane. We'd turned off of 70, and I hadn't really noticed. "Are we parking?" he asked. What Micah was asking was, Are we going to Philadelphia?
"Did any of the agents on scene ask you out?" His voice was serious and not hostile now.
"Not that I remember."
"Did you have a problem with anyone while you were there?"
"Lots of people."
"You admit it."
"Fox, I am female, I clean up well, have a badge and a gun, raise the dead for a living, and slay vampires. A lot of people have issues with some of the above. Hell, a lieutenant in New Mexico quoted the Bible at me."
"What quote?"
" 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.'"
"He did not." He sounded shocked, something you don't hear much from the FBI.
"Yeah, he did."
"What did you do?"
"I planted a big kiss right on his mouth."
He made a startled sound that could have been a laugh. "You really did?"
"It bothered him a hell of a lot more than hitting him would have, and it didn't get me dragged out in cuffs. But I'm betting the other cops who saw me do it gave him hell."
Fox was laughing now.
There were cars behind us, honking. "Anita, are we going?" Micah asked.
"My assistant wants to know if we're going to Philly today. Are we?"
Fox's voice still held that edge of laughter. "Yeah, come on down."
I said to Micah, "We're going to Philly."
Fox said, "Marshal Blake, I am going to do what I never do, and if you tell anyone I did, I'll deny it."
"What are you going to do?"
Micah pressed the big red button on the little stand-up ticket machine. He waited for our parking ticket to pop out. I'd told him to do valet. When you drag your ass in at zero-dark-thirty, valet was worth it.
"I apologize," Fox said. "I listened to someone who was there in New Mexico. His version of your run-in with the lieutenant was different from yours."
"What did he say?"
We were in the dimness of the parking garage now.
"He said you hit on a married man and got pissy when he said no."
"If you'd ever met Lieutenant Marks, you'd know that wasn't true."