24. Try A Little Tenderness

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By the time we returned to my condo and settled in, an undercover officer arrived.  I invited her in, gave her a tour and Hunter opted to give up the key fob for access to our unit, and the building.  I left Hunter and the officer to talk in the hallway while I moved to the kitchen to make dinner.  Hunter joined me a while later as I was getting ready to pull the chicken breasts off the bbq.  He offered to do it, but I kindly reminded him that it was on the balcony, which meant a no-go for Hunter.  He opted to set the table instead.  The undercover officer did not join us for dinner as it was not a slumber party (her words), but that didn’t stop me from making her a plate and setting it aside for her for later because she was surveying the whole building looking for threats or points of en

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