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It wasn’t just because I told Javi I wanted to take it slow.
It was because he wanted me so bad, he wanted our first time to be special.
“I think I’m going cry,” I whispered.
“I think I am too,” Willow whispered with me.
“I think she’s so over putting him off,” Luna said.
“I think she is too,” Jessie agreed.
“I think I’m going to let Javi set the pace,’ I said.
“I think that’s a good idea,” Raye affirmed.
Well, one thing to say about all of that, my minor freakout at kinda-sorta moving in with Javi was a whole lot more minor because more evidence had just been laid out for me about him being more amazing.
“Okay, fill me in,” I urged. “What’s going on with you and Cap?” I asked Raye.
She threw a hand toward the steel door. “What more do you need to know with him standing out there, ready to horn in on our action?”
I knew it was that.
“They just want to keep us safe,” I explained.
“That’s what I said,” Willow put in.
“We have tasers. We have brains,” Raye returned. “The last two cases we worked, did we go barreling in guns a’blazin’ to take down the bad guys?” She asked this but didn’t let any of us answer. “No! We called them in, and they took care of it.”
“You confronted that pedophile who had Elsie Fay,” Luna pointed out.
“I had no choice. He was walking to the room where he was holding her,” Raye retorted.
“She really did have no choice,” Jessie put in her vote.
“I probably would have confronted him too,” I said.
“I totally would have,” Shanti added.
“No one could walk away from that.” Willow brought up the rear.
Luna huffed.
“And that’s not gonna happen here,” Raye went on. “We’re just looking into things.”
“Can’t we do that with a couple of guys following us?” Willow asked.
Before Raye could say anything, Shanti said, “Listen, I hear you. It’s invasive, and it comes off as them thinking we don’t know what we’re doing. But take Cap for example. He’s been training with these guys since he was a teenager. This is Willow and my first rodeo. And none of us has any formal training. Maybe our first few cases, we have backup just in case?”
“I’ve read the Rock Chick books,” I announced.
Everyone looked at me.
“And, just saying, we want backup,” I concluded.
“It isn’t the backup,” Raye said. “It’s Cap telling me we were going to have backup, rather than asking me if we wanted backup. The answer to which would have been yes.”
“Ahhhhhh,” we all said in unison.