Page 177 of The Valiant Knight
“Bless you, Director.”
She corrected him.
“Elizabeth,” she said. “I’m not on a crime scene, and I’m not wearing a badge.”
He grinned.
“Thank you, Elizabeth.”
As he was finishing, Finn heard Gabby coming. She had to have broken away from Tony.
“Do the deed, Fineas. You won’t regret it.”
With that, she hung up.
When Gabby got in there, she was surprised to see he was done with the call. She’d had to trick Tony to get past him. By trick, she had to hit him so hard in the head with a pillow, she knocked him onto the couch.
“Are we okay?” she asked, as Tony appeared, and his hair was disheveled.
“Yeah, the call is over. Finish your dinner, mo ghràdh,” he said. “We have books to read in the library yet today.”
That they did.
When she sat down, he put his hand on her thigh, proprietarily.
And they kept eating.
Finally, she couldn't help herself.
“You’re not going to tell me what she said?” Gabby finally asked. “It’s going to make me insane not knowing. I practically had to knock Tony out.”
The man in question laughed.
“It was a pillow. We had a pillow fight, but it was one-sided.”
Finn was amused.
“Elizabeth told me not to hurt you, to love you, and to have a shit ton of kids. Have I mentioned my parents had eight children, and I’m theONLYboy?”
She wasn’t sure she believed him. Elizabeth didn’t let anyone off the hook easily.
As for Tony, he shook his head.
“Keeping the Scottish Isles populated, I see,” he stated.
Finn laughed.
“My father wanted a son. They kept going,” he said. “Finally, my mother said one last one, and they got me.”
Gabby smiled.
“That explains a lot,” she said. “You’re very gentleman-y. I would have pegged you as the baby,” she admitted.
He laughed.
“I was doted on by a whole bunch of women,” he admitted. “My sisters love me—Catherine, Caroline, Bonnie, Blair, Maisie, Kenna, and Elsie, were my babysitters.”
She giggled.
