Page 52 of In Death, Love Survives

Caleb twitches his mouth in amusement as he nods.

“Whatever you say.”

I give him a pointed look as he grins.

“She’s different.”

“Don’t I know that by now.” He chuckles and slaps his knee.

I sit back and glance around the room.

“Speaking of looking into people. This Toby character.”

“What about him?”

“He’s suspicious as fuck, don’t you think?”

“Yeah, man. He’s just the only connection I had here. We’re not exactly on home territory.”

I sigh, knowing he’s right.

“Speaking of home. How’s everything going there?”

Caleb gets more serious with the change of conversation.

“There’s been some trouble with a couple of the businesses. I’ve got it taken care of.”

“Nothing I should know about?”

He looks over at one of the officers and back.

“Not like this.”

We’re between a rock and a hard place with every goddamn conversation we have while I’m in here. I know my conversations are being recorded and listened to by someone here at Roper. It makes running my operations difficult. If it wasn’t for Caleb, I don’t know where I’d be or who the fuck I could trust.

“I have a meeting with my attorney tomorrow.”

“Think you’ll get some news?”

“Hopefully, tomorrow, he can tell me something positive.”

“Yeah, hopefully. It’ll be nice if he can figure something out for you.”

“We’ll see. I’m paying him enough to fucking get this handled.”

“It’s only been a few weeks.”

Squaring my jaw, I know he’s right, but it doesn’t matter.

“They want to keep me here.”

“I know. Something isn’t right.”

“Look those people up for me, will you?” I ask with a swipe of my hand through my hair.

“You know I will. And tomorrow, he’ll have good news for you.”

I sigh as I realize this mess I’m in is bigger than I thought it would be.