He had a gloomy look on his face and what looked like a lollipop lodged into the side of his mouth. She immediately recognized him as Gustavo Martinez, Cole’s new VP hire, but of course, she wasn’t supposed to know that. So when she got out of the car, she just gave him a friendly wave before heading toward the back of the Ferrari to retrieve her bag. He, however, seemed to have no such qualms about revealing that he already knew who she was. “Prudence Washington,” he called around the lollipop as he jogged over. Then he lifted her bag out of the trunk before she could and said, “How’s it going?” Despite the lollipop, he was outrageously good-looking, she noted with the distant assessment of an investigator doing her job. He also had a very charming Southern accent. So down-home, it made her feel as if they already knew each other. “I’m great...um...”
