It had been a pretty average day as far as days went. Noah went to work and came home. Murphy came and ate dinner with him, and they ended up on the couch watching TV. Normal as of late. Good normal though. Great normal ( Read more... )

He'd been in a pretty crappy mood, given everything. He knew he was probably too protective of his little sister, but it was something he couldn't really help ( Read more... )

Thomas had been bugging Noah about his school play for weeks actually. He had said he'd go if he could. And it turned out he could. And he was dragging Connie with him. Which really killed a few birds with the same stone. He got to make his nephew happy, and he got to shut Alexis up about meeting the woman who had been keeping him too busy to see ( Read more... )

Noah went down to the kitchen to start pulling out the flour and sugar and the other things he needed for the cookies. He figured going for chocolate chip was good for the time being. Maybe if Murphy mastered that they could try something else.

Though he was amused about the idea of seeing her in the kitchen. For something other than coffee or

Noah packed up for the evening and made his way from his office to the parking deck to his car. He tossed his briefcase in and started the drive over to Murphy's place. He'd been pretty busy with a couple difficult cases lately and hadn't really seen much of her. He was cheering up, though, with the thought of doing so ( Read more... )

Noah left work and drove over to Murphy's place. She'd said she wanted some fun, so he was on his way to deliver that. It's what he was good at. And..it was easy.

He parked in front of her place and went up to ring her bell, sliding his hands in the pockets of his pants.

Noah bundled himself up and quietly left his sister's house after everyone had gone to bed. Getting out would be a very good thing ( Read more... )