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Brian and Joey rode in silence. Brian kept thinking about what Joey said " I chose you'. For some reason he wanted to know why she had and why she worked so hard to convince Markham to let him work the case.

" What are you thinking about so hard?" Joey asked, even thought he was watching to rode, she could tell something was hard on his mind.

" Nothing." Brian answered.

"You don't want to tell me, fine. How long have you been in Miami?" Joey asked, the silence was getting to her. She wasn't the type to just stay quite unless she wanted to.

" Awhile, about two years. What about you?" Brian asked as he looked at her then back at the rode.

" Almost a year. I was transferred from New Jersey." Joey explained as she kept staring at him.

" How many cases have you done in Miami?" Brian asked. He realized getting to know each other was better then being silent. They were partners now, might as well get to know her.

" About four or five." Joey answered as she thought about it.

" Do you like undercover work?"

" It's the only work I do. Do you see me chasing people down an ally or working eight hours?" Joey asked with a faint smile.

" I guess not. You don't look the type." Brian said as he parked the car at the curb of the headquarters.

" I'm not." Joey said as they left the car and met with Markham and Bilkens.

Markham barely waited till Brian and Joey took their seats before she started laying out the details. "I have an agent all ready in, she's controlling a lot for Verone. She will pick the drivers, that's were you come in. Your all ready hired." Markham explained.

" Just like that?" Joey asked. She thought there would be a little more work involved.

" He trusts her judgment." Bilkens threw in.

" There's the address they're expecting you." Markham said after he handed Joey a piece of folded paper.

" Great." Joey flatly said as she looked over the paper then put it in her jean pocket.

" Before you go, you should know your only on this case because Bilkens thinks you can get the job done. But as for me, I don't think a felon and a cop with a really bad reputation of not listening to the rules, deserve to work a case like this." Markham said as he looked between Joey and Brian.

" If you don't like the way I get things done, do it your self. I would love to see you say that shit after you've worked undercover. If you could get the job done, you wouldn't need us, so I think you should be happy that Bilkens was willing to help your sorry ass. You know we are the best you're going to get, you son of a bitch." Joey said the she and Brian left before Markham could say a word. She didn't like what he said to her but it was nothing new higher up there cops said to her.

After a couple of minutes of silence Brian asked. " Isn't Markham your boss?"

" Fuck no! I work for Bilkens. Markham thinks because he's a custom agent that he's god. He needs to go fuck a duck, he's pissing me off." Joey said out of anger as she crossed her arms over her chest.

" Can I ask you something?" Brian asked.

" You just did, but okay. What?" Joey asked as she looked at Brian as he kept his eyes on the rode but felt her eyes on him.

" Why did you become a cop? What made you do it?" Brian asked.

" For the undercover work. I get to live a different life all the time. I love it." Joey explained as best she could.

" You didn't like the life you had before it?" Brian asked as he thought about what she said.

" Why are you asking me so many questions? When the time comes that you need to know something about me, I'll tell you." Joey explained as they pulled up to Verone's Miami Beach mansion.

" Let's go get this over with." Brian as he and Joey met Monica just a couple of steps before the front door..

" You must be the drivers Markham sent?" Monica asked as she looked them over.

" That would be us." Joey said pointing out the obvious.

" Okay, follow me." Monica said as she looked at Joey and smiled at Brian.

" Can she and you be more obvious?" Joey whispered at Brian as they followed Monica.

" What do you mean?" Brian asked as he looked at Joey.

" You like her. Your checking her out, your staring at her ass. And come on you saw that smile she gave you." Joey explained as they stopped at a table near the pool.

" I'll be back." Monica said as she left them sitting at the table.

" I wasn't checking her out. And I didn't see a smile. " Brian told Joey once he knew Monica couldn't hear. He was lying of course but he didn't mind lying to a girl he just met.

"Yes you were, you were checking her out the same way you were checking me out at the garage." Joey told him.

" What?" Brian asked, he didn't think she saw him but now he knew she was wrong she did see him but it shouldn't make a difference she was checking him out as well.

" That's right, I saw you." Joey quickly said before Monica and Carter joined them.

Cater told them what he needed them to do, drive what he said to the Keys. They agreed to everything he said. Cater was happy with them, he wanted to see them again before it was time fro the job.

" Where do you want me to take you?" Brian bluntly asked Joey as they drove away from Carter's.

" Are you trying to get rid of me?" Joey asked as she turned and faced Brian.

" No."

" Yes you are. You're not a good liar, it amazes me your still alive, you need to work on that." Joey explained as she continued to stare at Brian.

" Why are you staring at me?" Brian asked, he felt her eyes on him. He knew she had been staring at him all day.

" Because I want to." Joey simply said as she rested her cheek on the palm of her hand.

" You come on hard." Brain pointed out.

" What other way is there to come on?" Joey asked with one eye brow raised and a sly smile.

Brian decided not to bring any attention to her comment. " Where do you want to go?" He asked but he couldn't help but smile because he knew what she meant.

" Just take me back to the shop." Joey said, she still continued to stare at him, she knew it made him uncomfortable, that's why she did it.

" Do you own the shop?" Brian asked.

" Yeah since I moved to Miami." Joey explained.

" Do you race?"

" Yeah of course, why?"

" There's a race tonight and we need another driver, are you interested?" Brian asked as he thought about this morning when Tej was worried about not having enough racers.

" And here I thought you didn't like me." Joey asked with a little girl smile as she batted her eyelashes, sarcastically. "Yeah I'll race. Where is it being held?" She asked as she dropped her act.

Joey only races when she felt like it and normally on bridges and more in Ft. Lauderdale because no one knew her there. When she raced it was to win. Brian told her everything she needed to know about the race.

" So I'll see you tonight." Brian said as he pulled up to her shop.

" Yes you will." Joey said before she slammed to car door shut, then watched him drive off.

Brian drove back to Tej's garage where he met Rome and Tej, sitting in the back.

" Hey man, how'd it go?" Rome asked. He knew Brian had to meet with Markham and Bilkens to save his ass. The whole gang knew about Brian's past.

" It went ok, I met my partner." Brian said as he sat in a chair next to Rome.

" Is he cool?" Tej asked.

" She. And yeah she's okay." Brain said, he wasn't quite sure what to think of Joey yet.

" She? Is she hot?" Rome asked with a smile.

" I guess. You'll meet her tonight, I know we needed another racer so I invited her if that's ok with you guys?" Brian said.

" Yeah it's cool. I want to see this girl." Tej said as he stood from his seat and got back to work.

"Alright, I'm going to crash for awhile." Brian said as he stood as well then headed to his room.

He kicked off his shoes and removed this t-shirt and laid back in bed.

Awhile later he heard. " It's time to wake up." It was Joey who whispered in his ear, which made him opened his beautiful blue eyes.

" What are you doing in here?" Brian asked as he turned to face Joey.

" Your friends told me I could find you in here. The race is going to start soon and after the race we have to meet Markham and Bilkens." Joey said as she sat on the edge of his bed and placed her hands on her thighs.

"I know, Bilkens called to let me know but didn't say why." Brain said as he looked Joey over. She had on a black mini skirt with a violet halter top and knee high boots and a silver belly right to top it all off.

"Your really not good at checking a girl out without her knowing." Joey said causing Brian to look her in the eye.

" I wasn't trying to hide it." Brian whispered in Joey's ear before he stood from the bed and put his shirt and shoes back on. " Let's go." Brian told Joey then met everyone else on the street.

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Isabelle