Fate did allow.
Over the next month, Mika and Buck cemented their relationship, including Mika’s moving in with Buck three weeks after they’d first made love.
“It’s more practical,” Buck had said. They’d talked about it before, but now it made sense to make it a reality.
“Nothing wrong with practical,” Mika agreed, so they’d packed up everything he owned, which wasn’t that much, and took it over to Buck’s place.
Two days after Gordie Finley had been arrested; he was arraigned on the original charges—and a week later as an accessory to murder. Detective Windom had gotten the search warrants he needed. He hadn’t found anything relevant at the motel where Gordie had been staying. At his house it was a different story.
“He was either stupid or egotistical, but it’s obvious he didn’t think
