TWENTY
“I THOUGHT YOU and Earl had a fight,” she said as Daire navigated the trailer around to the back of the office building she’d met Danny in.
“Earl loves me. All the guys here love me,” he said, backing up a little more. “If I don’t have to cut ties with an asset, I don’t. It can pay to have allies in different areas.”
“So you lied to me?”
He paused to check her teasing expression. “Only to get in your pants, baby.”
His wink made her laugh. “You’d been in my pants by then. Plenty.”
“Yeah, but I wanted to keep getting in there.”
“What would you have done if I said no? If I was completely categoric about you not coming with me?”
“I wouldn’t have taken no for an answer,” he said. “If I had to follow you, I would’ve followed you… I’ll always follow you.” He killed the engine. “You
