Macy checked in with herself. Weak spot in her brain for Tim Harada still installed? Yep! There for everyone to see plain as day except for Tim? Check. Even Carl, the least sympathetic guy on the planet, could see it and was trying to console her?
Shit!
She looked Tim square in the eye, “I’m. Not. Your. Kid. Sister.”
“Says you,” he offered one of those casual grins that he always thought were so charming. That it was, didn’t help matters in the slightest.
He still saw her that way? She had no hope at all.
“You’re stuck with me, Mace. Not a thing you can do about it.”
“At least for this week,” and then you’ll be gone again.
He had the decency to shift uncomfortably.
“My job is in the Lower Forty-eight.”
Hard to argue. And her life was here. She rubbed her forehead and sipped some c
