Chapter 93
He had liked her on sight, and he had to admit a little healthy competition for her with his boss didn't hurt either. Then on their date yesterday, he had discovered that they had a lot of ideas in common. He definitely wanted to keep seeing her and leaving town would make that impossible.
Catherine was surprised by his flummoxed look. She had honestly expected a comment like 'there are always more fish in the sea' from him, but instead he truly looked concerned over the matter.
Devin was slow to answer, but when he did both Vincent and Catherine could tell he had put some thought into his reply. "I don't know. Our date went great and I really want to see her again. She seemed to feel the same way when the date ended. We didn't make plans to see each other again, but both of us said we wanted to." He sank down onto the bed next to Vincent, "What am I going to do?" he asked, his head falling into his hands.
Vincent sent a glance to Catherine mentally asking if there was any way that Devin could stay in his job at the DA's office. Sadly she shook her head no and while he didn't like it, Vincent understood. Tuning in to his brother, he asked, "Devin if moving back Below is not an option for you, is there any other kind of work that you could do that would keep you in the city?"
His head popped up, "Yeah! Cathy put the idea into my head last week and with Jenny's job, it would be amazingly perfect!" he exclaimed with a huge grin.
"Catherine?" Vincent questioned.
"I have no idea what he is talking about!" she told him.
"Sure you do!" Devin insisted with an expectant look. When Catherine just shook her head in bewilderment he prompted, "What you told me I should be doing when I was coming up with ideas as to why you had broken off your eng…"
"I remember," she interrupted.
"Catherine?" Vincent asked when she stopped.
"I told him he should be writing fiction."
"And with Jenny as a publisher…" he trailed off waiting for the other two to catch on to what he was saying. When they both seemed to 'get it' he went on, "However, instead of fiction, maybe I should write an autobiography!"
Catherine sighed indulgently at his irrepressibility, "Maybe you should publish it as a fiction story though. If not you might be looking at several lawsuits."
"Aw come on Cath!" Devin protested.
"Oh not from me!" she quickly told him. "But from anyone that recognized their story in print and has problems with your lack of professional credentials in whatever work you were doing at the time."
"Okay! Okay! Does she publish fiction too?"
She grinned at Devin, "Her publishing company deals with all kinds of manuscripts. Jenny works mainly in non fiction, but if she were the one to bring in a new author to her bosses who would only work with her, I bet they would go with it."
"Awesome!" Devin exclaimed and jumped to his feet to hug her. "Now I will leave the two of you alone together," he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively before continuing, "While I go start my book!"
"You should also work on what you are going to tell Joe!" Catherine called out as he left the chamber.
Vincent and Catherine did spend a little time talking about the unusual developments of the day and some of the possible outcomes, but they were still new lovers and before long those instincts took over and they found themselves in each others arms.
Catherine was already at her desk hard at work, the next morning when Devin strode in. He greeted her with a grin and a wink and was going to head into Joe's office to talk with him when he came over to them.
"Did the two of you hear what happened last night?" Joe demanded excitedly.
The other two exchanged glances knowing they had to play dumb and then both shook their heads 'no' to Joe. "Tell us," Catherine encouraged, using the words that Vincent used so often to her.
"The guys that attacked you, plus Marty Beldon, were all killed in that alley between the printers and dry cleaners, only a block from here!"
"Wow!" Devin exclaimed. "What time did it happen? Cathy and I were at that dry cleaners last night!"
To be continued….