Nari sighed. Serena was a creative genius and always made the evening fun. Hopefully she’d come at least for dessert.

Pippa stood and took the basket. “You took out your streaks.”

Millie grinned. “Yeah. I’ll put some back in eventually, but I was tired of the colors. We’ll see.” She looked around. “I turn twenty-eight next week and I’m no longer undercover as a computer tech, so maybe it’s time to forget the streaks. I kept them partly to tick off HDD, but nobody really seems to care.”

The woman did not look twenty-eight. Nari sipped her wine more slowly, her mind spinning.

The door opened and Dana swept in, a small, white kitten in her hands. “Kat wanted to come. I hope that’s okay.”

Wolfe hovered right behind her, his body braced, as if to catch her. The man was huge compared to the blond journalist, who wasn’t exactly short.

Dana’s angled face flushed. “I made it here safely, Wolfe. Go back to playing poker with your friends. Now.”

Nari coughed to cover her laugh.

Wolfe gently, oh so gently, took Dana’s elbow and tried to help her sit.

Dana’s eyes sparked and she jerked her hand free. “I’m only three months pregnant, buddy. I’m fine. I can walk, I can talk, and I can even spar. Go. Please, Wolfe.”

Wolfe’s powerful chest filled. “All right, but call me before you walk home.”

Brigid pressed her lips together. “Yeah. The several feet between houses can be treacherous.”

Wolfe nodded, approval lifting his lips. “Exactly, Bridge. You get it.” He leaned down and kissed Dana before turning to the door. “Dana thinks I’m obsessed, but I’m not. I’m just doing what needs to be done.”

What needs to be done. Like Angus always did. Wait a minute. Nari’s head jerked. Realization struck her. “There is no way Angus Force just left town with a serial killer on the loose. Especially when one victim had a Roscoe tattoo and the other looked Irish.”

Wolfe frowned. “He said he was done, and he looked like it. In fact, he acted like it.”

Well, that was true. He wouldn’t have propositioned Nari if he hadn’t intended to leave. Nari sighed. Maybe she just wanted him to still be in town. “Yeah, he really did,” she said softly.

“It is what it is. For now, I’m going to go win all the money I can because we’re currently unemployed.” Wolfe shrugged.

Nari settled more comfortably on the sofa. “Nobody has been reassigned?”

Brigid picked at a string on her jeans. “Raider was reassigned to the main Homeland Security and I’m supposed to report to a new computer center at Homeland Defense on Monday. It’ll suck not working together.”

Nari bit her lip. Maybe she could figure out a way to have Brigid work with her team. “Anybody else?”