Total pages in book: 70
Estimated words: 68937 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 345(@200wpm)___ 276(@250wpm)___ 230(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 68937 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 345(@200wpm)___ 276(@250wpm)___ 230(@300wpm)
I understood without him needing to go into detail.
“Oh,” I breathed. “Do you think that he knows that was me?”
“Probably not all that hard to figure out. He counted the windows. Knew the floor. Probably looked at your mailbox in the foyer,” he explained. “It’s right by the office where he would’ve gone to get paid.”
I shivered. “I hope it’s all just a coincidence.”
“Him seeing you practically naked, then you seeing him out and about? Maybe. But him coming to your place of work? I don’t believe in that many coincidences,” he growled.
I shivered at the way his words made excitement dance across my skin.
“What now?” I asked.
“Now,” he said, “I figure out where that fucker lives and see what he knows.”
I nodded, deciding it was best not to question him and his methods. I might find out something that I didn’t like.
“Think maybe we should get married,” I teased. “That way I can’t be forced to be a tattletale against you.”
His eyes gleamed and he pulled me in close using the top of his helmet.
“That can be arranged.”
I smiled. “I have to get to CE.”
“Then go,” he said. “But don’t forget to drop the cats off first.”
I looked back at the cats that were practically begging to be let out of their carrier.
“The entire drive to the vet,” I sighed. “They cried. It was awful.”
“I’ll bet,” he agreed.
He went to step back, but I caught him by the t-shirt and pulled him toward me. “About what you said earlier…”
His eyes flashed with excitement, but his face remained bored. “Yeah?”
“I might be even more head over heels for you than I thought.”
He laughed and then opened my door for me. “It’s not too soon?”
“No,” I dropped down into my car seat and blew him a kiss. “It’s not.”
He eyed me, then checked out my car. “I think we need to get you something newer.”
I rolled my eyes and slammed the door.
He watched me go, and only when I was well on my way did he head back to his bike that was still parked in the middle of the parking lot.
I didn’t see the man, Cornelius Stone, but I had a feeling that I didn’t want to.
“Come on, Copper,” I moaned. “I’m starving, and we’re accomplishing nothing here right now.”
Copper groaned, scrubbing his hands down his face. “This place is a mess. I can’t believe you didn’t catch any of the stuff they were doing.”
The ‘stuff’ they were doing was embezzling money, and lots of it.
“I can’t say that accounting is my best subject,” I admitted as we gathered our trash and headed for the door.
I dropped my load into the trash in the hall, and he followed suit, before heading back to lock the office door.
“You’re going to have to get a forensic accountant in here to figure out what all was done,” I said. “And then we’re going to have to file charges.”
“I have a slightly better idea,” he said. “Though probably not better for them.”
The way he said it made me think that he was about to do something highly illegal.
“This could all be figured out legally,” I pointed out.
“The time for that has passed,” he said. “If we want to see that money again, we’re going to have to get it by other means.”
I nodded and headed for the elevator. “Hey, I was going to ask, do you want to move into my apartment?”
He frowned. “The one we just got for you for the next year?”
I shrugged. “Dima asked me to move in, and I said yes.”
He studied me for a long moment before he said, “You know he’s very dangerous, right?”
I smiled and got into the elevator. “I know.”
“You know that he’s slightly crazy, too?” he asked.
I shrugged. “I know that a little bit crazy is okay, as long as it’s the crazy protecting you.”
“You’re right,” he agreed. “Do you love him?”
He wasn’t asking me this because he was questioning me. He was asking me because he genuinely wanted to know.
“I’m so in love with him that I don’t even know how to begin to explain it,” I admitted.
He was silent for a while, and the floors ticked by on the elevator before he said, “I want that one day.”
My brows rose. “You had that, brother.”
He remained silent, and I knew that we wouldn’t be having the discussion on his ‘once’ love.
I smiled, though, because I knew a secret.
The girl that I’d suggested we hire was none other than his ‘one true love.’
The woman that he pushed away when he’d gone into prison and hadn’t called since.
He might hate me after he figured it out, but only a little bit.
A secret smile stayed on my lips as I headed through the lobby and out the employee entrance.
In the last few days, a lot had changed with the security.