I had been dating Ethan when the thing was new. He pried open the lid, connected to a secure wireless server, and logged onto a database for WILKINSON BAIL BONDS. He said, "You know me better than I thought you did, Parker. I don't make a deal unless I've got every scrap of information I can fin...
But then maybe it wasn't the words themselves, but the subtle defeat in Parker's voice and that faraway look as he told me about a little girl born with a heart defect. All the macho bluster, all the arrogance, vanished in an instant, and the tender man from that motel bathroom surfaced again. "I...
There was little he could do, however, about his slightly misshapen dome, which he regularly shaved bald in an attempt to look slick—an attempt that failed on many different levels.Rafe shifted in the chair in front of Pine’s desk. “I was just doing my job,” he said. Which wasn’t strictly true, s...