“Hop on,” I urged.
She did, and I mounted in front of her.
She scooted closer, the closest we’d ever been, and wrapped her arms around my waist.
I knew it was all for show, Officer Moran hadn’t taken her glare off of us since we’d left her fuming in the middle of my shop, but it didn’t mean it didn’t still feel fantastic.
And since Officer Moran was only blocking most of the drive, I was able to slip out to stop next to Silver’s car.
I was unsurprised when that cruiser followed us all the way to the front of the hospital.
“Tell me again what time do you get off?” I asked as I came to an idle next to the back entrance into the hospital.
“Four thirty.” She shrugged. “I can walk home, though, so don’t worry about a ride or anything.”
I didn’t like that.
“Text me about thirty minutes before you get off, and I’ll be here,” I said.
I’d go back to the office and get some office work done while I waited for her to finish up at work.
It was funny we kept the same hours.
I was a night person, through and through.
I’d never been a person that liked to be awake in the middle of the day.
The night hours, from around nine at night to about seven in the morning, those were the hours my body liked best.
The only times those hours hadn’t worked for me was when Eedie had been born and we were trying to get her on a normal schedule.
I could still remember the fucking fit Elizabeth had thrown when Eedie liked to stay up with me and sleep when I slept.
“I’ll see what I can do,” she said. “I’ll have to stay a little bit later to cover the time that I wasn’t here.”
This good girl of mi…no, not mine.
Fuck.
“Text me,” I said. “The ride is two minutes. I don’t mind getting you back home.”
“Not back to my car?” Silver frowned.
I gritted my teeth before saying, “I’m fixing your locks.”
She sighed. “I didn’t tell you that to get you to fix them.”
“Never said you did,” I pointed out.
She groaned. “Bye, Piers.”
I shook my head. “Bye, Silver.”
When I got back, I didn’t get any paperwork done.
Instead, I opened up the garage bay that I liked to work out of and got to work fixing Silver’s locks.
All the while, there was a cruiser from Kilgore Police Department parked across the road from me.
