TWENTY-EIGHT
HER HEART WAS RIGHT there, angled chin tipped down, peering at her over the top of his aviators. The unimpressed expression on his face didn’t even really register. Tess was just… thrilled. Sucking in a breath, she dropped the letters and rushed to jump over Lenny. Except she couldn’t… her hands were tied, so she came to a screeching halt rather than throwing herself at her Heart like she wanted to.
“Did you think I wouldn’t notice the joint being cased?”
“Baby,” she whispered, tears warming her stinging eyes. “I knew I would see you again.”
“What are you doing here?” he asked, tossing aside the black thing she hadn’t noticed in his hand until he was freeing himself of it. “What’s going on?”
When he closed the last of the space between them and tried to scoop his hands on
