At least they hadn’t, but we’d just drawn a dashed line across the map and placed a big X on her back.
“Did you leave a paper trail?”
“Do I look like a fucking amateur?” Gibson chugged back half his beer.
I laughed. G was a lot of things, but an amateur wasn’t one of them. “Sorry.”
He nodded his acceptance before biting off a third of his burger.Dude has no manners.
“Did you use your work computer?”
“I had to, but I didn’t notice any tails and the account wasn’t flagged.”
That was good news; if someone had flagged the account, we would’ve just alerted them we were on their trail.
“Let me know if anything comes up.”
In the low light of the pub booth, his dark eyes looked almost black when he squinted.
“Dude, are you fucking kidding me right now?”
Ryan Gibson wasn’t one to accept insults, even if unintended, quietly.
“Sorry. This case… it’s under my skin.”
Only I didn’t let cases get under my skin. I maintained my distance and got the job done.
“That have anything to do with a cute brunette with deep blue eyes?”
Yes.
“Go fuck yourself.” It was a whole lot more than my attraction to Nina.
“Maybe later.” G shrugged.
He signalled to the server to bring us another round. We ate in silence while we waited for our refills.
“This could get messy.”
“Because she works for your aunt?” he asked, looking for a sign of weakness.
“Yes. We have to tread carefully. My family doesn’t know what I do.” He rolled his eyes as I stated the obvious. “If I waltz in there and start asking questions, Mary will call John, and it won’t take long for the SSI team to find the holes in my cover story.”
Unlike my occasional undercover op identities, the one I gave my family wouldn’t hold up to the scrutiny of John’s team.
“Right, right. Your uncle’s a PI?”
“So are his sons, and their hacker is good.”
“Good enough to breach the CIA?”
“No, but Jay’s wife was FBI. With a little effort, she could out me.”
“Alrighty then, how do we play this?”
“For now, there is no we. I’ll go to Weatherford and see what I can learn.”
If all else failed, I’d use the excuse of wanting to make sure Nina was okay after our run in. It was weak, but I could pull it off with enough charm.
