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Rogue was out of her chair and squealing like a little girl. “Oh boy, when the hags in town hear you gave me a hug, they’re going to be so green. ”
She all but jumped into his arms as he laughed at her. When he set her back on her feet, he wagged his finger at her. “No gossip. Chaya will kick my ass. ”
“You’ll love every minute of it. ” Rogue wrinkled her nose as she turned away and lifted her bag from the coffee table, before turning to Alex. “Hey, stud, someone either hacked her ’puter or they manually inserted a b
ad boy virus that’s fucking with her. It’s beyond me. ”
Alex paused at the desk and turned to Janey, his expression tight and controlled. “You called her first?”
Janey shrugged. “She was coming over this morning anyway. ”
The look in his eye assured her that he wasn’t pleased that she hadn’t called him first.
“Looks like Rogue kept your chair warm for you, Alex. ” Natches poked at him with a gleeful laugh.
“I am so out of here. ” Rogue laughed as she turned to Janey and shook her head in sympathy. “Good luck, girlfriend. I don’t think I envy you after all. ”
The door closed behind her as Janey watched Alex and Natches. Tension was riding high between the two men, and it had the power to make the back of her neck tingle.
“What’s going on?” she asked her brother.
Natches ran his hand over the back of his neck as he turned to Alex, glaring at him.
Janey felt like shaking her head as Alex stared back at her brother coolly.
Alex shook his head as he came around the desk, pulled a folded envelope from the pocket at the side of his duffel bag, and handed it to her as he pulled his jacket off.
Staring at the two men suspiciously, she lifted the envelope. “What’s this?”
“Someone left Natches a picture of us,” Alex told her quietly. “The night I went up to your apartment with you. They snapped a picture from the empty second-story room in the building across the street. ”
The abandoned store across the street. Okay, this shouldn’t be too bad. A picture of them. They had kissed, but nothing else.
She glanced at Natches’s closed face before drawing the photo free from the envelope. She stared at it silently.
Oh, that didn’t look good. Her lips twitched at the sight of the hold Alex had on her. It was dominant, powerful. She lifted her eyes to him. “You’re still walking. Chaya must have a good influence on Natches. ”
Alex grunted at that. “Read the letter. ”
She was pulling the letter free. She blinked at the words and then lifted her gaze back to him and drawled, “I’m so naughty. Should I be spanked? Or killed?”
Natches’s muttered curse almost had her smiling, but the tight knot of fear growing in her stomach wouldn’t allow for it.
She tossed the papers to the table and pushed her fingers through her hair as she sat back on the couch and breathed out roughly.
“So what do we do now?”
“You come back to the boat,” Natches bit out.
“And endanger your wife and child?” she asked him.
He stared back at her in disbelief. “Excuse me here, Janey? Mackay Marina. Smack-dab in the middle of the Mackay dock? I don’t hardly think so. No one would dare try to strike out at you there, and we’d catch whoever was watching you. ”
“Well, let’s see,” she mused. “There’s the drive to work. And back. Back is the kicker. Sometimes I don’t leave this office until after one. Then there’s the fact I have to be here early for deliveries. Speaking of which, I hope you have some cash on you. Desmond’s fresh vegetables are due any minute, and I don’t have my computer running for the check printout. ” She looked at Alex as he stared back at her, his expression brooding. “Is it running?”
“Not yet. ” His smile was hard.
Janey looked at the computer and back to him with a sigh.
