he said to the beagle and pointed. Jenny closed the bedroom door behind the dog and continued down the hall toward him. “How’d you get her to do that?” “We’ve been working on some things,” he said, getting up from his computer desk and moving to the kitchen. “Is this going to be an all-nighter? Should I put on a pot of coffee?” It took her a minute to realize he was talking about the discussion she wanted to have with him and not a night of something else. “No.” She shook her head in answer to both questions. Coffee would just keep her awake. Not that she was going to get any sleep. Now that the time had come to talk, she couldn’t seem to find the right words. “Tess seemed upset.” What an inane and stupid thing to say. She didn’t want to bring up his ex. “If Tess was upset there’d be four letter words and shooting.” “She’s in the military?”
