Page 73 of Rules

"Ageo," Sebastian says, "gator is ageo."

"Eww," Mouse's face shows her instant disgust.

"I don't care, if gator tastes like this smells, then I'll eat gator." Keyboard keeps her hands firmly on the tray.

"Ferris, there are two more trays on the front desk, be a dear and grab them for me." Evelyn seems to finally notice me at the table. "Oh, Tobias, good morning. I hope I'm not interrupting something. I just wanted to welcome the crew."

"Evelyn," I nod. "Your early morning baking proved to be popular."

Keyboard, who finally has full control of the tray, has taken it back to her seat. With her first bite she moans loudly, which brings Mouse over. She eyes the cake then takes a piece of Keyboard's.

"Gator is good," she says, pulling her seat over to the tray and beginning to devour a cake of her own.

Chewing, Ferris returns with the trays. "Evelyn, these take me back to my MeeMaw's kitchen. Thank you."

Evelyn appears to be beaming. "That's the best compliment I could ever get, thank you. Well, I'll be going. I'll stop again."

"Please do," Ferris smiles, setting a tray on the table. He takes the other tray and walks through the other door.

"Thank you, Evelyn," Law follows her from the room.

I watch in amazement as both ladies take another cake.

"Better grab one, Tobias," Law returns to the room. "Here," He offers me one from the other tray. "These won't last long with this group."

"Thanks, but I better head to work." I start to rise out of my seat.

"If you can find a bit more time, I had a couple of things I'd still like to talk about."

I sit back down. "I guess I can spare a bit more time," I say, accepting the plate he offers me.

"Good," Law takes a cake for himself. The ladies help themselves to their third.

"Now, can I have access to your hospital patient?"

"That's not protocol," I take a bite of cake and immediately understand why everyone is shoveling them in.

"I know it's not. But, I was hoping, just once you could ignore protocol."

"You planning on roughing him up?" I ask, side-eyeing Law.

"Be pretty dumb of me to tell the Sheriff if I was, wouldn't it?"

"Yeah," I chuckle, "I'll give you that one."

"I just thought, maybe if he saw all of us, he would see he really didn't have a choice but to talk." He puts his fork in the air. "We can be an intimidating bunch."

What do I have to lose? He's in the hospital after all. It's not like Law could do anything out of line in the hospital. At least I hope he can't. "I'll arrange it for this afternoon."

"Thanks." Law's shoulders relax slightly. "We're on the same team here, Tobias. I know I have a habit of going rogue, but this time, I want to coordinate. We both love this town."

My phone buzzes, cutting him off. I glance down to see an unknown number on the screen.

"Sorry, I need to take this." I step out of the room. "Sheriff Trenton."

"Sheriff, this is Andrea Waters from Dr. Eleanor Salinger's office." The voice is crisp, professional. "I'm calling to inform you of your scheduled appointment with Dr. Salinger."

"Excuse me? I don't have an appointment with any Dr. Salinger," I reply, confused. "I think you have the wrong number."

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