2 Finally. It only took, what, ten minutes of bullshit for Aiden to get to the point. And his point was that he had a job for me. Except…we’d never worked together before. He was a loner. I was a loner. No high-level math required to figure out that the two of us working a case wasn’t a good idea. And no way was he talking about subcontracting out a gig to me. He was way too much of a control freak. We shared that particular trait. “Yeah, no. I won’t be taking any jobs from you. Not unless you’ve approached the guild, filed an application with them, and requested me to work your case.” “It’s not that kind of case.” I never thought it was. Otherwise, Aiden, who barely spoke two words to me when we occasionally bumped into each other, wouldn’t be in my home. He’d have simply filed th

