“She’s not psychological if that’s what you’re considering,” Rory mentioned.

“Hey, buddy, I used to be solely saying that typically an damage like that takes a while to get better. Her fender is dented although.”

“Can we see her?”

“Positive, she’s not in bother. She was actually shaken up although and I didn’t need her going residence alone. Dillon would by no means forgive me and imagine me, that’s one man I don’t need on my dangerous facet.”

Zeke mentioned nothing as he turned and walked to the door. Rory adopted after thanking Frank. Earlier than he might open the door, Rory caught up with him.

“Now, babe, hold your voice calm. Maura reacts to your anger in a completely totally different approach.”

He glanced at Rory. “Yeah, what approach is that?”

“She sees it as a problem. Or one thing like that.”

“Okay, I’ll stay calm.”

He opened the door and his coronary heart melted. She’d laid her head down on the desk and he or she had her eyes closed. She was so damned drained. It was simple to see from the darkish smudges beneath her eyes. She was pale too. In lower than every week, she had appeared to lose the tan she had gained from her seaside time in Hawaii. And that pissed him off.

“What the bloody hell, Maura? You didn’t name us?”

She jolted awake. She blinked a few instances, her gaze targeted on the 2 of them.

“What are you doing right here?”

“Frank known as us,” Zeke mentioned, his voice vibrating with anger. He couldn’t appear to maintain it fully beneath the floor.

She regarded previous them with a glare.

“Workplace Duggan, I anticipated higher.”

The fifteen-year veteran flushed. Maura might make most males really feel like naughty boys when she was disenchanted in them. “Ms. Dillon, I couldn’t launch you after you mentioned you had a concussion lower than two weeks in the past. Particularly because you refused to go to the hospital.”

“I can repair that,” Zeke mentioned. He stepped ahead to seize her arm however she jerked away from him. It felt like a fucking knife to his coronary heart.

Earlier than he might simply haul her over his shoulder, Rory stepped between them.

“Hey, why don’t I take Maura residence and also you comply with.”

Zeke hesitated. Rory didn’t at all times supply to do issues like this. Hysterical ladies weren’t his factor; though, wanting on the girl who was obvious at him for the time being he most likely wouldn’t put her within the hysterical class.

“Okay.”

She had her arms crossed over her chest and he or she wasn’t budging. He might inform from the cussed set of her chin and the mutinous look in her eyes.

“I can take myself residence.”

“You possibly can. And I can name Conner and discuss to him about it. He may simply pull out of lively standing and put you on…effectively, I suppose you possibly can name it home arrest.”

He knew she was good sufficient to understand it wasn’t a great factor for her to drive proper now. Zeke additionally knew she wanted an excuse to comply with his orders. Threatening her with Conner was the one solution to get her up out of that seat and into the automobile. Reality was, Zeke would do it in a heartbeat and he wasn’t too certain he wouldn’t do it now. Conner could be pissed if he discovered what occurred from another person, so he would most likely name his good friend—even when he weren’t actually speaking to him.

“Wonderful.”

She stood up and marched out of the room and thru the crowded outer workplace. Rory gave him a grim smile and adopted her.

“I hope Ms. Dillon isn’t too mad at me,” Duggan mentioned.

He shook his head. “No drawback. She’ll recover from it. She’s not been herself because the assault in Hawaii. As soon as they clear all this Petersen shit up, she’ll settle.”

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