Total pages in book: 30
Estimated words: 26645 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 133(@200wpm)___ 107(@250wpm)___ 89(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 26645 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 133(@200wpm)___ 107(@250wpm)___ 89(@300wpm)
I let myself into Sergeant Tully’s office to wait for him, expecting him to arrive pretty early. Time passes and I stare at the clock behind his desk, waiting for him to show up. Eventually, when I only have 30 minutes to talk to him before I have to leave for my fake job, he shows up.
“How the hell did you wind up working for Dominic?” he asks me after he settles in.
“I’m honestly not sure,” I say, shrugging my shoulders. Tully looks at me and raises his eyebrows, pointing to my clothes with his eyes. The guys at the station aren't used to seeing me out of uniform. That's part of the reason I love wearing the uniform, it hides my body. I don't get as much reaction from men as I do out of the uniform. My office clothes are well-fitting, but they're not too revealing. “So he might be attracted to me. If it’ll help me get close enough to get the info we need, I’m fine with it.”
“I don't like this,” Tully says with a long sigh. “Your father would kill me if he knew I was letting you do this. He knew how dangerous the DeLucas were.”
“Well, he’s not here to stop me,” I quickly reply. I'm doing this to try to live up to my father's name. I can't risk being taken off this job. I don't want to be shelved and put on a boring, safe beat just because people are afraid of what my father would think if he was alive. “I’m not leaving. So you should stop worrying and just tell me what to do now that the plan has changed.”
He sighs and nods his head, leaning back in his chair and reluctantly agreeing with me. Everything I've heard about my father has been positive. Everybody always tells me that he was ambitious and ruthless when it came to getting what he needed in a case. They joked about him and said that he was like a bloodhound when it came to a case. I can only hope Tully sees some of that in me.
The original plan with me working at the casino was to get close to Paulie. Paulie has been Dominic's right-hand man for years. Initially, we didn't think that it would be possible for me to even get near Dominic—otherwise, we would have started there. The truth is, getting the information from Paulie would be a lot easier. There has to be something that Paulie has against Dominic that might corroborate the story we've been building against him. Now, I have to get close to the leader of a crime family and somehow find a way to access confidential documents or get him to confess the crime to me. All the while, I will be hiding the fact that I’m an undercover agent and anything he says to me will be used against him in a court of law.
Tully's advice for me is to play it cool today and not do anything that's going to raise suspicion about who I am. Just do my temp work. Be friendly and charming, maybe flirt with Dominic a little bit if I have to. We don't have time before I go to the casino to develop a thorough plan, but I have to go back after my shift to figure that out.
So, I try to do just that.
When I arrive at the casino, I take the elevator up to the offices like I did the day before. There are two different elevators in the building. The reason for that is so casino patrons don't make their way up to the CEO's office by mistake. The first elevator takes you to the reception area of the offices. The second elevator leads you to the other floors belonging to employees of the casino.
As soon as I step off the elevator, I feel like there are eyes on me. Not everyone is looking, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm unwelcome. Perhaps that's just my own paranoia, though. Getting found out is my biggest worry right now, but I don't think anybody has a reason to suspect me of anything.
The receptionist stops me and asks me how I've enjoyed working in the office so far, and we chat for a few minutes about the party. The party is a sensitive topic for me, given everything that happened with Tyler. Nobody knows about that other than Tyler, Dominic, and me. I don't want to make a big deal out of it, so I don't mention anything to her. If I do, people will be questioning why I'm still there. It only makes sense that a temp would quit after something like that happened to them. I can't risk that suspicion.
I head up to the floor where Dominic's office is and get ready to settle in for the day. From the calendar I read the day before, Dominic was supposed to be in around 11:00, so seeing him in the office when I arrive is surprising.