Chapter 32 – A little sultry, a little I'm sorry and a little I miss you.

Castle shrugged out of his leather jacket. He hung it neatly in the front closet. His eyes were drawn to his daughter stretched out on the coach and cradling her iPad "Hey Sweatheart."

"Hey Dad – I see you've been busy today."

"Hmm, 'see' I've been busy?"

Alexis' looked up from her iPad and gave her dad a squinty stare "Yeah, I'm watching the clips from your interviews today. Very telling"

"Ah…" His voice trailed off as he realized that even if Kate might not watch him on TV, his daughter figured it out. Castle picked up his daughter's outstretched legs and plopped onto the couch beside her, settling her legs on his lap "…that obvious?" Castle started to rethink if dropping Kate Comments in each interview was a wise decision.

"Individually, maybe not, but string together all the little nods to Detective Beckett and its obvious. 'The number one quality you look for in a woman is someone who enjoys your coffee. You are looking for a lady who can run in five inch heels, has legs for miles, can handle herself on the job and in the bedroom' – really Dad, really? My favorite 'loves wants to race the wind on a '94 Harley Softail.'"

Castle blushed a bit as he avoided his daughter's gaze. "How mad do you think she will be?"

Alexis shrugged her shoulders and tossed her iPad onto the coffee table "No clue Dad." A sneaky grin played on Little Castle's face "Oh, Oh I know we could edit them all together and send them to Detective Beckett and ask her what she thinks."

Castle gave his daughter's pony tail an affectionate tug, "Let's not and say we did."

Castle was halfway to his office when he turned on his heel and said "Change of plans – let's do it. I have some great pics of Kate you can use to fill in between my 'Kate Comments.'" He tossed his daughter his phone "Go to the album labeled KB."

Alexis shot her dad a questioning look "You're kidding right, because I was." Alexis was curious enough to quickly thumb through the album labeled KB and its 500 plus pictures. "Dad this is kind of creepy. In half these pictures look like she doesn't know you even took them."

Castle finished pouring his glass of wine and re-corking the bottle "TMI?"

Alexis dramatically dropped to the phone to the counter as if it was burning her fingers "TMI and possible jail time for stalking."

With an impish grin he said "Probably, but if it doesn't creep you out to much let's do it."

"I thought you said the fan videos were made by crazy people. Please don't tell me you have turned into a crazy person."

"Afraid so, don't worry sweetheart I can do it myself."

Alexis picked up his phone again. "At least let me pick the least creepy sneaky shots."

Castle kissed the top of his daughter's head "Deal" and headed back to his study.

Kate and Esposito had chased down the suspect hours ago. Unfortunately for Kate she had rounded the alley corner too closely and slammed her shoulder into the edge of the brick building. It hurt to raise her arm and she would be black and blue for days. A small price to pay to be able to have a solid suspect locked up in less than 24 hours.

As she sat waiting for the video camera tapes to prove the jackass she wasted on her shoulder on was guilty. She thought to herself, really? What jackass stabs someone at an ATM and then proceeds to try and get the money out? It's all on tape. The same jackass paced the edge of the crime scene saying the victim was his brother and mom needed money for a lifesaving operation. How stupid did this meth head think they were?

Kate gave a little laugh. Well she was stupid enough to think she could bounce off brick. She rubbed the pain in her shoulder but the only thought in her head was the pain that Martha was right. Shutting Rick out was wrong.

Kate double checked Gates' office.

Yep gone for the night.

It looked like it was just she and Esposito waiting on the tape. Once they showed jackass and his public defender the tape it would be time to play let's make a deal. A quick and easy case, the kind she loved and the kind Castle found pedestrian.

Kate snuck into Gates' office, taking a moment to get the right tone in her voice. The tone that she knew made world famous author Richard Castle a puddle of goo.

Once Kate felt confident she could pull it off she selected 'phone', then favorites and favorite #1.

Her tone was right… a little sultry, a little 'I'm sorry' and a little 'I miss you.' "Hey Rick."