“What? I’m just saying that they’d make a great couple. There’s nothing wrong with that, is there?”
“No matchmaking,” Spike said in a warning voice.
Yikes. He sounded so stern. She’d do whatever he wanted if it meant he wouldn’t use that voice on her.
“You’re such a party-pooper sometimes,” Millie grumbled.
“Um, I’ll just call my contact,” she muttered, feeling her face go bright red.
“What will they do?” Matthieu asked.
“Whatever they have to in order to rescue those babies.”
“That’s what I was afraid you were going to say. I don’t think I like this. What if they get caught?” Matthieu asked.
Oh, that was sweet of him to be worried about them. “Don’t worry, they’re pros at this.”
“If they’re caught this could come back on you.”
Okay, so he’d been worried about her? That was even sweeter.
“They won’t get caught and even if they did, they’d never dump me in it. I promise.”
Matthieu grunted and turned to Spike.
“It sounds like the quickest solution,” Spike said. “Doing it legit could take a while. I could get the guys onto this, but they don’t have the skills these people do.”
“Fine,” Matthieu said. “Make the call.”
She let out a sigh of relief and reached for the car handle.
“Where do you think you’re going?” Matthieu grasped hold of her hand.
“To make the call. In private. They won’t want anyone else to hear this.”
“I’ll come out with you,” Matthieu said. “Don’t worry, I won’t listen in.”
All right.
Five minutes later, she and Matthieu climbed back into her car, interrupting Spike and Millie’s conversation.
“Oh, thank goodness you’re back to rescue me!” Millie exclaimed, alarming Maya.
“Why? What’s wrong?”
“Spike was listing all the ways he is going to punish me. It’s a long and extensive list. And I really think it’s torture to make me write out the list before he enacts it.”
That did sound a bit mean.
“That way, neither of us will forget something,” Spike told her.
“You won’t forget!” Millie cried. “You have a mind like a steel trap. It’s infuriating. I can never get away with anything.”
“Too bad you didn’t recall that before tonight,” Spike told her.
“Oh. I didn’t forget. I was just hoping you wouldn’t find out until after all of this went down. I hadn’t factored in Sav being a sneak and checking Livvy’s phone.”
“How did the call go?” Spike asked Maya.