26
LEAH
“I can’t do this. I just can’t lie to Kevin for six more weeks.”
Dan, Black, and half a dozen managers from Blackwood’s investigations division looked on uncomfortably as I melted down in a conference room. I was meant to be taking minutes at the biweekly status-update meeting, and instead, I was…freaking out. I’d tried to pull myself together, only for my breath to start coming in pants as fear got the better of me. Yes, I’d only known Kevin for a few weeks, but he was the sweetest man I’d ever met, and the thought of losing him…
I’d been okay until Dan went through the notes on the Molly Sanderson case. Two suspects left, team in a holding pattern, Leah’s doing a great job juggling the surveillance alongside her other duties, blah, blah, blah. But I wasn’t. I wasn’t doing a g
