Chapter 2
Mac put his phone down in his desk. He had tried calling Stella again, but she hadn't picked up. Most likely as she was working, still something wasn't adding up. It wasn't like her to not pick up or return his calls like she had lately.
He had a feeling that she was hiding something from him. Did she have second thoughts about sleeping with him? No…that couldn't be it, considering she wanted it as much as he did. His only regret what that he hadn't done it sooner.
Mac sighed as he looked at a picture of the two of them in his personal files on his computer. It had been taken at the lab right after she started there. He remembered the day as it was yesterday. She had been granted access on his floor, waiting for him at the reception, nervously looking around, dressed in one of her usual outfits.
He had talked with her for a little while, and then showed her the lab and how things worked, knowing right there and then that she would be his second in command as soon as he started. And that was the way it had developed.
They were as close as two friends could be and even if they didn't always saw eye to eye they had managed to make one hell of a work team.
He sighed, looking at his phone. He missed her that much he knew. He had hated the day that she transferred to NOLAPD. Knowing he wouldn't see her every day, knowing that she wouldn't be the one to discuss the cases with or argue but had gotten to him like a hard kick in the stomach. It had been like the air had been knocked out of him.
"Mac…?" Jo's soft voice broke through his thoughts.
The detective looked at his now second in command Jo Danville. They were a great team as well, he would never regret to hire her, but the fact was that she was not Stella.
"Yes…?" he questioned, wondering if she had said something he hadn't captured.
"Just go and talk to her," Jo said, giving him one of her particular smiles.
"Talk to whom?" he asked, looking at her with confused eyes.
"Stella," her reply was simple and honest.
"You know I can't just take off like that," he argued, he did after all have a crime lab to run.
"I think we can manage without you for a day or two," she said.
He of course knew she was right, and that he could go to her, figuring that it was better to talk to Stella face to face than over the phone. That way he might actually get some answers. He nodded at Jo saying, "Call if there should be anything."
"I will, you just go to her or you'll regret it," Jo said in a tone making her sound like an wise owl.
He nodded again, before heading towards the elevator; she just looked after him, shaking her head, hoping that he would be able to fix his troubles with Stella.
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