All Kinds Of Tied Down (Marshals Book 1) by Mary Calmes

Author:Mary Calmes [Calmes, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mary Calmes Books, LLC.
Published: 2020-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

I was at my desk later in the day finishing up paperwork to close the Tolliver case, when my phone rang. I picked it up without checking the display, preoccupied with looking for my mouse, at a loss as to where it could be. I started rifling through my desk drawers.

“M?”

I froze. “Ian?” After close to two months, he sounded really good.

“Yeah.”

“Hey, buddy,” I said, smiling stupidly, I was sure. God, I was so happy to hear from him. “Are you safe?”

“Yeah.”

“All in one piece?”

“I am.”

“S’good to hear you.” It was like I could suddenly breathe, up from the deep, drowning place where I’d been struggling for air since he’d left. “Back to civilization, huh?”

“Almost. I’m in Honolulu, and I’m on the next flight out for Chicago in, like, half an hour. I’ll be there sometime in the morning, so I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“You should sleep in, rest up.” I sighed. “Me and Becker are flying out to Tennessee tomorrow morning to drive a prisoner back, so you’ll hafta wait to see me.”

“Oh, so you’re working this weekend.”

“Yeah, and because your old man is out of town, I sent your dog to the mountains with some friends of mine.”

“Well, he’ll love that. Who’s got him?”

“My friend Aruna and her husband. You’ve met them a ton of times.”

“Yeah, sure, they’re real nice.”

Something was wrong. “You sound weird. You okay?”

“Yeah, no, just tired.”

“Okay,” I said, relieved, exhaling my worry. “Well, I’m bummed I won’t get to see you sooner, but it’ll give you time to sink back into your life a little. I can give you Aruna’s number if you want to drive out and pick up Chickie before I get—”

“No, that’s okay. I’ll wait and go with you.”

“Okay, good.” I couldn’t stop smiling. “I’m so glad you’re back.”

“You missed me, huh,” he said, like, of course I had. He was so arrogant.

“I did,” I confessed, because that was my place in the partnership. I said it so he didn’t have to. It was how we worked. “I really did.” It was so good to hear his voice, to be able to talk to him whenever I wanted. “You think you’ll have to go again right away?”

“I hope not.”

There were no guarantees with Ian. “Okay.”

He cleared his throat. “So, you do anything more exciting than leaping off balconies while I was gone?”

“Actually,” I said playfully, “I’m saving that for you. We can do that again when you get home.”

Silence.

“Did I lose you?” He was in Hawai’i, after all; maybe some hot girl in a bikini had walked by and he bailed on me.

“I’m sorry, what?”

“What?”

“You said you’re saving that for me?”

Oh, he was listening. “For us, yeah. I think it should be our thing now. I’m sure the boss’ll be thrilled.”

“Yeah, no. That should not be our thing,” he said, all serious.

“Hey, so you know, White’s okay too.”

“Pardon?”

“Well, ’cause he was in a coma.”

“He was—what?”

“I, however, was not in a coma, merely sleeping. Don’t let anyone tell you different.”

“I’m—you were… what?”

“What’re you doing?” Kowalski asked as he rolled his chair over to me.

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