Total pages in book: 72
Estimated words: 73043 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 73043 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
I opened the door so I could see the scene in front of me.
Janie’s eyes immediately came to me, completely forgoing the other two men that were closer to her.
And this also didn’t go by unnoticed by Tegan the slime bag, either.
He narrowed his eyes at me as if he was mortally offended not to have Janie’s complete undivided attention, which then caused me to grin.
Tegan narrowed his eyes even farther.
“Janie?”
Janie had to peel her eyes from me, and the moment her eyes were slid away, I felt like half of my soul was gone along with her gaze.
“You ready?” James asked, looking in my direction.
I nodded, then reluctantly turned and walked back into the room.
Instinctively I knew where to go, even though a lot of this was still unfamiliar to me—at least the new me.
“You okay?”
I looked up to find James staring at me.
“This not knowing where to go, but knowing where to go thing, is like a fucking tick in my brain. Like I know, but I just can’t get it to fully form. It’s driving me insane,” I explained.
James nodded. “Sure, it sucks. Why are you here?”
I crossed my arms over my chest. “I need some monitoring done on a few individuals. One in particular. I’ve been sitting on him for months now, and I’m not getting anything. I’ve gotten to know the daughter trying to get a closer look, but there’s nothing there. Even though I know for a fact that this guy is dealing with things that could be huge.”
“What kind of huge?” James asked.
“The kind of huge that will blow a hole in a corruption case the size that the US Military has never seen,” I answered.
James blinked. “What is it that you do again?”
I grinned. “I do what I want.”
James’ eyes narrowed. “Like date a girl, ask her to marry you, and fuck her over while you try to send her father to prison?”
There was some underlying hostility there, and I knew that he knew something. Something that I still didn’t know.
“You have something you want to say to me?” I asked carefully.
James shrugged. “I was told that you would figure it out on your own time. I just hope when you figure it out it’s not too late.”
That cryptic statement helped zero.
Goddamn them.
“James…”
“Janie’s really good with computers.”
I knew that, because I was, too.
She’d been trying to figure out something that had changed on her computer for a while now, and I knew that eventually she’d figure it out.
My only hope was that she wouldn’t be completely pissed when she found out.
To be honest, I really didn’t need their help.
I just needed their backup in the instance that my case went to shit.
Normally I wouldn’t need help at all, but then again, I’d never had to deal with a man the likes of Layton Trammel before.
He was suspicious, tenacious and careful. So careful, in fact, that I had a feeling that any dealings he had at all with whomever he was selling and buying from was done through a third party. Some man, or men, helped him. Someone big who knew what the fuck they were doing.
And I wanted the backup and the extra set of eyes.
The men of Free weren’t the only ones I asked, either.
I’d also had my brother-in-law, Wolf, keeping an eye out, too.
I was officially asking for help.
And that was unheard of for me.
Trace and I had been it for a really long time now, so it was hard to branch out and extend that hand.
But I’d do it because this was the last job I’d be doing before I officially closed that chapter of my life. The chapter that had shaped me into the man I was today.
“You okay?”
James had apparently been talking to me.
“Yeah,” I said. “Just fucking tired.”
And I was. All the goddamn time.
“Did you hear what I said about Janie?”
I nodded at his question. “I did, but I won’t be asking her for help.”
“Why?” he pushed.
I frowned. “Because this job is big. The man I’m investigating, he’s a heavy hitter. I don’t doubt that Janie’s good, but this man isn’t anyone to fuck with. He’s the man that nearly cost me my life ten years ago, and he’s hurt so many more.”
“I’m not a child.”
I looked up to find Janie in the room.
Tegan was nowhere to be seen, but that wasn’t to say that he was gone.
Moments later, he filled the door frame and looked around like he’d never been inside here before.
“Janie, there are rules,” James said, eyeing Tegan behind her.
“Shit, sorry,” she said, looking sheepish.
Moments later she herded the fool out the door, even though it was more than obvious that he didn’t want to go.
“There are rules?” I questioned James when she’d left.
“Yeah, the kind of rules that say no dumbasses allowed in places they shouldn’t be in,” James grunted.