“I’ve told you all I can for now.” The phrase ‘for now’ was thrown around a lot during this conversation.
“You should know, someone else came in posing as an insurance investigator and asked to speak with Nina,” John offered.
That explained why Beth was so suspicious of Gibson.
“Why are we just now hearing about this?” Gibson’s chair slid back as he stood to question John.
“Because we didn’t know you were involved until just now,” Jay said, putting his hands on the table and making a show of standing without sending his chair halfway across the room.
“We’ll need the video footage.”
They hesitated, but in the end didn’t argue.
“Just tell me where to send it.” John crossed his arms over his chest. His body language telegraphed a patience his voice didn’t. “But you don’t talk to Nina until I know more.”
“You know you can’t actually stop me, right?”
Gibson chose that moment to speak again. “We can bring her into the office, interrogate her in a steel box.”
It was a stupid attempt to assert dominance, and not only did it fail, it pissed me off.We’ll never treat Nina that way.
Apparently, I wasn’t the only one. John’s face turned icy. “Can you now?”
“Gibson, shut up.” I glared at Gibson. “I have no intention of making this harder or scarier,” I glared at G again, “than it has to be. Miss Novak is a person of interest as a potential witness, nothing more.”
“Are you so arrogant that it hasn’t occurred to you we could help?”
“I’m sorry, John, but this is above your pay grade.”
My uncle didn’t roll his eyes, but the energy pouring off him was the same sentiment.
“Can you at least tell me if I need to worry about the guy who came in here?”
“I won’t know until I see the video.”
“You’ll have it in five.”
“Thank you.” I shook his hand. Now that the meeting was over, I ordered, “You need to erase this meeting.”
I couldn’t risk the wrong person getting their hands on it.
“Fucking spooks,” Jay said under his breath. “Give me your email; I’ll go help Ma send and delete.”
Thankfully, when Jay approached him, Gibson moved out of the way so he could pass without a confrontation.
“If Nina agrees, I’d like to talk to her before we leave,” I said after giving Jay one of my personal emails.
“I’ll ask her, but I expect you to honor her wishes if she says no.”
“I will.” I wouldn’t like it, but I’d do it. “You can’t tell her we’re CIA,” I reminded him.
“I know. The less she knows, the safer she is.”
Chapter 17
Nina
Iglued a smile on my face as I took orders, poured coffee, and warmed pastries.I can’t believe that Ralph Smith guy worked with Austin.What was Mary’s nephew into that he hung around with shady guys like Smith and Jones?
