First Brother Jacobs cleared his throat. "They're real."
'No wonder I thought there was something different about their demeanor,' she realized. 'So they're police officers.'
'That explains it.'
Faced with Evie Jacobs's look of utter disbelief—an expression that screamed, 'You went legit behind our backs?'—Zoe Sawyer rubbed her nose sheepishly and explained, "I didn't want to add to your stress by telling you. I was just thinking of coming out to have some fun, but I didn't expect to actually run into something like this."
But what was done was done, and it wasn't the time to dwell on it.
Evie Jacobs walked up to Quentin Miller and kicked him in the shoulder. "Tell me what happened. Explain everything, from beginning to end."
Quentin Miller opened his mouth, about to make an excuse, but one look at his two brothers-in-law and their bulging muscles made him spill everything that had happened recently.
