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Keisha’s flighty mother, had been gracious when Jake called her and apprised her of the situation. It had been a feat to not chew her out when she didn’t even bother asking how her daughter was doing.
    The Escalade turned on Main Street and Jake gazed out the window. Mauryville had a certain small town charm, a homey feeling that DC lacked. A woman pushing a stroller took him out of the moment and he imagined Keisha in a flowing skirt that swished around her ankles, her dark arms bare and soft as silk as she glittered beneath the street lamps. He was beside her, joking as they talked about nothing and everything. She was safe, happy. He was happy.
    “Senator?”
    Jake snapped from his daydream, glancing over at Raven, who sat across from him, her fair features scrunched in concern.
    “Are you okay?”
    Jake gave her a curt nod, settling back. His daydream would have to wait. For now, they were going to bail her out of jail.
    He peered out the tinted window in confusion. The firefly quaint of the downtown street was replaced by cold, dark walls. They were in an alley, the SUV parked and humming beside a dumpster. “Where the hell are we?”
    “I contacted the station and expressed our need for…sensitivity,” Raven explained. “They’ve already processed Keisha’s release and she should be coming out the back door any minute now.”
    Jake felt the smile at his lips as he looked at his former intern, all grown up. He’d just been concerned with getting Keisha out of there that he hadn’t even thought about asking for the station to be discreet. “Good work, Raven.”
    She turned away, her cheeks rosy red. “I, um-” She cleared her throat. “Thanks.”
    Jake clicked his seat belt, pushing out of the car. Raven joined him, shivering as she pulled her cardigan tight around her. Jake couldn’t feel the cold. He felt nothing except the thunder of his heart as he stood rapt, waiting to see her.
    When the door swung open and a woman in a uniform came out and talked to Raven for a moment and got her to sign paperwork, Jake tore past her, bounding up the stairs that led up to the station’s back door.
    Keisha stepped over the threshold, her face hard and empty ‘til she saw him. When their eyes met, the world stopped. She stood frozen on the fire escape, her lips parted as she said one word—Jake.
    He scooped her in his arms and she crumbled, her whole body wracked with sobs as she clutched him like her life depended on it. He stroked her, whispering that everything was okay now. Everything was okay. He was there. He would always be there.
    As he led Keisha down the stairwell to the car, he heard Raven talking about the car and the press, probably trying to get them out of sight before they were spotted, but Jake stayed where he was needed, where it mattered. He breathed in the vanilla, coconut smell of Keisha’s hair, the caress of her skin as she sunk into his bones, her head against his chest as her sobs tapered off to sniffles.
    She pulled back, swiping at her eyes. “C-Caleb?”
    “He’s fine,” Jake answered. “Your mother has him.”
    “I’m sure I’ll hear all about how inconvenienced she was.”
    Jake tilted her chin upward and kissed her, finally relaxing when he felt her lips pressed against his. “Don’t your worry about your mom. You worry about you right now.”
    She ran a hand through her short hair. “I am so sorry you had to deal with this, Jake. I just know Winterhorn is going to press charges and it’s not going to do your campaign any favors-”
    He shushed her as he opened the rear door to the Escalade. “Let’s just head back to the-”
    His words hung in the air as a sedan came barreling down the alley, the shine of the headlights blinding him. Son of a bitch. He’d bet his bottom dollar that some loose lipped civil servant had called a reporter. But when the car blocked the exit and the driver door opened and shut and a shadowed figure stalked toward them, he noticed a