Strangers in Death (In Death #26)(119)

“Oh?”

“She can’t use anything coming from the death of her spouse, as she’s charged with conspiring to murder same. That cuts it back. And if I can pin down the Hampton case, she’ll lose what she got from the father-in-law’s death. She’s going to have a lot less to spend on fancy lawyers. Anyway.”

“Anyway.” He leaned down, brushed his lips to hers. “You’re done.” He set the first-aid kit on her desk. “Any thoughts to going home?”

“Yeah, as soon as I contact Whitney and run it for him. And I figure I’ll give Nadine a heads-up. Maybe you can buy me a fat, juicy steak.”

“Maybe I could.”

“Roarke.”

“Eve.”

It made her smile, but her eyes stayed serious on his. “What she said about me marrying for money?”

“You answered it, and quite well.”

“Yeah, but we know some people think that.”

“Eve—”

“Some people think it sometimes, some people think they know it all the time. You and me, we know different.”

“We do, yes.” He drew her to her feet, and this time the kiss was long and deep and just a little dark. “We both know you married me for the sex.”

“Well, yeah, which is why I don’t mind if some people think it was the money, because that’s less personal. Thanks for the first aid.”

“I’d say anytime, but it so often is.”

She grinned, then sat down to contact her commander.

Roarke settled in her visitor’s chair. He took out his PPC and amused himself by checking the stock reports on Anders. He thought it might be quite fitting to buy up the shares formerly owed by Ava Anders.

And put them in Eve Dallas’s name.