Pretty Witches All in a Row (38 page)

“I will,” he nodded, edging towards the door and Lexi took pity on him. 

“Okay, thanks; we’ve got it from here.  I’ll see the detective out and I’ll be right back Allie,” she smiled, scooting past him to the front door before she spoke again.  “Thanks again for the help, Detective.  It’s really nice of you to offer to call around, but I can do that too if you’re busy.”

“It’s no trouble, a few calls won’t take up much of my day,” he shrugged it off.  “I have to say I’m a little surprised to see you pitching in so eagerly to track him down though,” Ryan paused on the front porch. 

“Yeah well, she’s my sister.  Sure he’s an asshat, but he’s
her
asshat,” she gave him a lopsided grin.  “Besides, if he skipped out on her I wanna know before he cleans out the bank account.”

Gabriel’s smile was back as she followed him out onto the porch.  Turning to lean a little closer to her, he dropped his voice to a conspiratorial whisper.  “You know, off the record, I always thought Neil was kind of a tool too, but I think I like asshat better.  Let’s hope for your sister’s sake he comes back in one piece though.”

Lexi stared after him for a moment, at a loss for words.  “Are you sure about that?  That would leave Allie off the market,” she called after him.

“She’s not my type,” he replied with a wink so fast she thought she might have imagined it.  The question remained, just who was his type?