Page 34 of Finding English

“Fuck off, you Welsh prick.” Nate glared and moved, striking like a snake as Will jumped back pretending to hide behind Aubrey.

“Baby, save me.”

Henry shook his head as he looked at Jack, who had a long-suffering expression on his face and smiled.

“Will you pack that shit in, you bunch of tosspots.” Zin rolled his eyes looking bored as Waggs and Reid closed the lid on a large case containing equipment that Henry knew wasn’t even on the market yet.

Henry walked beside Jack and Aubrey as Will and Nate kept up a steady stream of banter. Reid, Waggs, and Zin kept an alert eye on the surroundings as they made their way to breakfast.

“How long do we have you for?” Henry asked, knowing their time wasn’t infinite here.

“Depends. At the moment we have a window while we work a few things out. Alex and the others can certainly manage what we have on right now, but we have a busy year next year with a Royal Tour of the Commonwealth coming up.”

“I appreciate it.”

Jack jerked his shoulders in a nonchalant shrug at the thanks. “Happy to help. This sick bastard needs putting away, and if we can facilitate that, then it’s one less asshole to worry about.”

Henry liked that about these teams he worked with in Hereford. They didn’t do it for money, although they clearly did okay for themselves, and they sure as hell didn’t do it for fame as nobody knew what they did. It was just in them, a part of who they were, almost a calling. To them, they were good at it, and they could, so they did. Henry did wonder if there was a certain part of them that loved the thrill of their jobs. Like a drug and yet more than a few had found the loves of their lives and still did their jobs efficiently.

As he stepped inside, and his eyes met those of the woman who had captured his heart, he wondered if he could walk away from police work for her and realized he could in a heartbeat. He’d give up anything to be with her. He would miss it, but if she found it too challenging to be married to a cop, then he’d go back to lab work. He didn’t doubt in his mind that he’d be asking Cassie to marry him if this went as he hoped it would.

He needed to get Bunce off the streets first.