They took the ring to Beverly that same evening. Cate offered Willow’s apologies, which Beverly chose to believe meant Willow had taken the ring accidentally, and Cate didn’t try to argue her out of the belief. “I do miss that girl’s meat loaf” was Beverly’s final declaration.
Mitch took Cate home. At the door she turned to him. “There’s something I guess I should tell you. I’m going to start working full-time for Uncle Joe. I want to be a private investigator. A real one.”
“I thought you might.”
“But you don’t approve?”
“Wait here. I have something for you.” He ran back to the SUV, dug in the glove compartment, and returned with an oblong box and handed it to her.
She opened the box. A pen resting on white velvet lay inside. “That’s nice, Mitch. Really nice.” She was pleased but puzzled. It was a lovely blue pen, but she had a pen. Everybody had pens.
Mitch picked it out of the box. “It’s a special pen. With video and audio. I thought it might come in handy.”
A spy pen! “How does it work?”
“Beats me. But we’ll figure it out.” He touched her cheek. “I admit it. I don’t necessarily approve of the whole PI thing. But I can live with it.”
Cate stretched up and kissed him. “Just what every PI needs.”
“The video pen?”
“I was thinking of a guy always ready to gallop to the rescue.”
“Anytime.”
Lorena McCourtney is the award-winning author of dozens of novels, including Invisible (which won the Daphne du Maurier Award from Romance Writers of America), In Plain Sight, On the Run, and Stranded. She resides in Grants Pass, Oregon.
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