![]() ![]() Her lips curled into a warm smile as she approached me and said, “Thought I might have scared you off.” Her hair was up in a ponytail, and she was wearing a pair of black leggings with a sweater. Seconds later the front door opened and Wren was walking over to me. ![]() ![]() She was talking to someone, but then stopped when she noticed me sitting there. The lights were on in the kitchen, and I could see her standing at the window. There were fresh mums sitting on the porch, and she had some kind of fall decoration hanging on the front door. Her house was just a small brick house, nothing out of the ordinary, but Wren had done her best to make the place look like a home. Just knowing they were on the other side of those four walls made the tension I’d been carrying around all day begin to subside. The sun had gone down, and the chill of the night bit at the back of my neck as I parked my bike at the edge of the driveway and killed the engine. There was no reason for me to be there, but I needed to check on them, see for myself that everything was okay. “No,” I answered as I got on my bike and started the engine. ![]() That where you’re headed now?” Cotton asked, grinning at me like a fucking Cheshire cat. I started for my bike and said, “I’ll get them going on the surveillance.” ![]()
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