And so their lives moved on. The agency prospered, especially after they hired Carol, a young woman who ran the business end of it with the same aplomb and attention to detail as Nina had at Kip’s old agency.
Kip was notified that he wouldn’t have to return to Denver for Macklin’s trial. With what Harris had told the prosecutor, there was enough evidence against the man without Kip’s testimony.
“Thank God for that,” John said when Kip told him. “I know you’d be well protected, but…”
“Your nerves would have been working overtime until it was over. I get that. So would mine, especially since I doubt they’d have let you come with me.”
“I know they wouldn’t have, meaning by the time you’d returned I’d have been committed to the local asylum.”
“No. You’d greet me with open arms and we’d sp
