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Knowing everything she had been through, Alex wanted her to relax over a garden. Grin at his kids. Make his daughter’s perpetual frown disappear.

He hiked a brow. “Dinner at six?”

She started to say something, then caught herself and shook her head. “Not a good idea.”

Alex stayed low-key and stretched out his single-word question. “Because?”

“You have issues with my issues. I have issues with my issues. End of story.”

She almost shouted the last comment, and that made him smile. “Good cops learn to deal with issues. And you need to eat.”

“I’m thirty-three years old, I’ve been feeding myself for a while, but thanks anyway. However, I would love to do Emma’s project. That’s it.”

Alex feigned acceptance. The best investigators knew to plant seeds of doubt, guilt or need...then walk away, hoping evidence would come to them.

With Lisa, he was willing to wait.