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“I don’t see that either,” he said. “You’ve got a lot of labels for yourself. You need to stop that.”

“I didn’t realize it,” she said. “I don’t give them to myself. Other people do.”

“Then other people can shove it,” he said. “That’s what I say.”

She snorted. “I like your attitude. Did you get home yet?” she asked. “I just pulled into my apartment.”

“I’m close,” he said. “And you need to go and finish up with whatever you were dealing with at the jail.”

“I do,” she said. “Then I’m going to put some mindless TV on while I search for dinner.”

It was on the tip of his tongue to offer to bring dinner to her, but he needed to slow down.

Three dates in a row, three days in a row, wasn’t something he’d ever done before.

“Sounds like you’ll be doing the same as me.”

“You’ve got a lot of yummy burgers left,” she said.

“I do,” he said. “I’ll most likely have that.”

“Enjoy your night,” she said.

“You too,” he said. He debated for about a minute. “Maybe I’ll see you again this week.”

“I’d like that,” she said. “We’ll try to get our schedules to mesh.”

“Now that sounded way too businesslike for me,” he said, rolling his eyes.

She laughed. “That would be an example of snobbishness.”

“Maybe a little,” he said. “But it’s fine. We’ll work something out.”

“I’m sure you’re going to make it happen,” she said. “Something tells me that’s the type of man you are.”

“Compliment or insult?” he asked.

“Totally a compliment. Because I’m the same way.”

“I believe that might have been a challenge issued,” he said. If he flipped the visor down to look in the mirror he’d be smiling bigger than his mother when his father used to return home.

“Night, Elias.”

She hung up, laughing, and left him sitting in his garage that he’d just pulled into.

Damn. He might have just found his match.

14

GIVEN A FAIR SHAKE

“That might have been the fastest settlement in the firm’s history,” her father said to her on Wednesday during their phone call.

Her office door was shut and she was all but bouncing in the chair, and if she thought she could kick her feet up in the air without toppling over, she’d do it.

“I believe it is,” she said.

She never expected Bill Riggin’s former employers to get her letter and want to settle right away, apologizing for what happened to him.

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