Chapter 49 - After the Dream

Brody didn’t take his eyes off Tessa as Jennah mothered him and cleaned and bandaged his shoulder.  Tess was chewing her bottom lip as she read over the list of known associates of the guy they’d identified.  Of course it turned out to be someone everyone knew or knew of—and taking him down was going to have to be a very precise operation.  Getting close enough to the man in charge wasn’t going to be an easy thing to accomplish. 

Tessa lowered the pages and leaned back in the chair, closing her eyes for a few seconds.  It was long enough for him to allow his eyes to travel over her without being caught.  When she opened them again, he looked away and met Joslee’s glare.  Lifting his eyebrows, he tried to look repentant for tormenting the man that could hear what he was thinking—which at this moment was something he couldn’t wait to be doing to Tess.

The Captain came back into the room and glan