Chapter Thirteen
Pillow Talk
The Motel later that night:
"What do you think Lydecker's going to do if we find out he's been working for the people who killed his wife?"
Logan looked across at Max, who was lying on the bed and took off his glasses, "Go after them"
"He'll get himself killed."
"He'll know that," he gestured for her to move over a bit and lifted his body onto the bed facing her. "What was your first instinct after you found Tinga?"
"To kill Lydecker."
"Then after you found out it wasn't him, you wanted to go after Manticore, even though the slightest thing going wrong could mean your death."
"I didn't go though."
"Why?" he asked
"I wasn't ready to leave you."
"I'd like to point out I'm never going to be ready for you to leave me, so try to avoid ever doing so, but if I ever lost you…I would die making sure who ever took you away from me suffered as much as possible. She was his world Max."
She smiled, "Are you saying I'm your world?"
"I'm saying you're pretty high up there, I mean I put Eyes Only on hold for you." He turned and laid back next to her.
She laughed and poked him, "You've put Eyes Only on hold about twice now. I don't think that really counts."
He wrapped an arm around her and she took a deep breath of his freshly bathed smell. "I would put it on hold more often if you really wanted me to."
Max gave a contented sigh and snuggled into him, "I would never want you to. Though you know if you ever stand me up for dinner again you're going down."
"Kendra cooked you didn't, you ever cook for me I promise I will be there no matter what."
"Did I ever tell you I cooked a chicken?"
"You cooked a chicken and you didn't invite me?" he asked offended.
"Yea well it wasn't a poulet chez Cale."
"I'm sure it was amazing. You'll have to make it again."
"We can make it together."
He shook his head, "I'd like that."
"I like this" she smiled into his shoulder.
He turned his gaze downward, "I like this too."
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Early Morning Hours:
"He wouldn't have given up."
"What?" Max said slightly groggily, she was almost dozing
"Lydecker wouldn't have stopped the search for his wife's killer."
She frowned, annoyed, but not too surprised that Logan's mind was still on Lydecker, even after they had just made love, that man could be all business sometimes, "He was a drunk," she pointed out.
"He was a military man, deeply in love with his wife; I mean the guy's killed everyone, why would he let the one person who personally wronged him go free."
Max woke up fully to that, "So what are you saying?"
He leaned over and turned on the light, "I'm saying Lydecker thinks that the person was punished."
"The case was unsolved," she reminded him.
"Yea and there's probably another case out there that's unsolved. Lydecker wouldn't have let the person go and chances are he wouldn't have put his faith in the local cops."
"So Manticore or the company set up someone to take the fall."
Logan shook his head, "Probably left a trail of breadcrumbs for Lydecker to follow, in his grief who knows how he was thinking."
"This whole thing is just off, none of it makes sense. Why would they kill her? Was she planning on exposing them? She would have been exposed too, she probably would have ruined Lydecker's career."
"I don't know. There's something off about this whole thing," he shook his head once more; he had an uneasy feeling about this.
