The case took them to a glitzy, gaudy casino. And she disliked it almost immediately. If the noise wasn't enough the sheer abundance of well formed attractive women acting as if they hadn't a single brain cell in their heads set her teeth on edge.
They'd arrived to speak with the casino manager, who insisted on making his rounds as they talked. But though she gave him her attention, there was a small part of her constantly aware of Jane.
There was nothing so painful, she thought, as infatuation unrequited. Nothing more painful to her in this moment than to watch him flirt with the pretty blonde bombshells. To know that he could easily take them to his bed and have something that she never could. And she can tell she's attracted to her, she may not be a potential psychic in the making, but she has picked some things up from his somewhat sarcastic teachings. His attraction is practically written all over him.
She struggles to keep her mind focused, to pretend that she doesn't feel ice like fingers around her heart, threatening to break it. but she is first and foremost a police officer and she performs as such. She questioned the manager with barely a break in her rhythm. And she gets some solid information before she leaves. She should be satisfied.
But jealousy is an ugly emotion, and it damn near chokes her as they leave him behind to flirt with the admittedly attractive woman.
Later that afternoon, the team don't understand why she's suddenly a little sharper, why she's throwing herself even harder into this case, almost as if she's desperate to be done with it. and since Jane was still suspiciously absent with the blonde, he wouldn't be able to enlighten them.
She wanted to go home and sleep it off. To restore a kind of equilibrium. But they had a murderer to catch, and catching killers always came before emotional turmoil.
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