“You look very tired, Jessamine. Are you not sleeping?”
“My name is Jesse and I do sleep. The night they caught Noreen, I slept ten hours straight. It was glorious.” She lied through her teeth. “I told you, the only time I don’t sleep is when a bad guy gets away. All the bad guys on my watch are taken care of in the moment.”
“I’m not sleeping,” he sat at the kitchen table uninvited. “I miss you. I have had you in my life nine days and I can’t imagine you not being there again. Jesse, don’t cut me off.” He was blunt in typical Torben fashion. “We need to work through this.”
“We had ground rules, Torben. No strings attached. No dating.”
“We did,” he agreed. “I’m hoping we can renegotiate the rules.”
“I’m not interested.” She gripped the edge of her counter as she blatantly spilled more
