(Cole)
I left the courthouse before I could talk myself out of it.
Ryan had everything under control. The paperwork was straightforward now that the ruling had been delivered and there was nothing left that required me to stand in that corridor and watch Lena walk away with her father and Diane while I pretended I wasn't thinking about exactly what I wanted to do next.
So I left.
I drove back to Buckhead with one thing on my mind and it wasn't the case.
The case was closed.
Lena Hart was free.
And I had been thinking about this since the moment she walked out of my bedroom that day and told me she had work to do.
I parked and went upstairs and stood in the doorway of my bedroom and looked at it the way she looked at spaces she was working on. Taking in what was there and what neede
