Page 89 of Get A Fix

“She did. She found one explicit video, but that was all. There were hundreds of pictures, but they all looked like they could have been in a regular magazine. Nothing NSFW at all.”

I exhaled deeply. “That’s good. And she’s sure she didn’t miss anything?”

“More important than her being sure—because we don’t know her or how she works—is that Owen is. Not only did she ID the other person in the video, and check him out thoroughly, but she had another friend of hers track down all Furniss’s purchases on the dark web because she was worried there might have been something there, but no.”

“Okay, good,” I said, feeling like a weight lifted. “And what did she do with the video?”

“She deleted all trace of it and made sure Furniss didn’t send it anywhere.”

“That’s good.”

“Furniss actually just moved to Paris last week. He has a job there now, guarding a family, and he lives in their house.”

“Okay…”

“When Owen spoke to her this morning, she explained that she had just returned from Paris the day before, having flown there to have a final word with Furniss.”

“You’re kidding.”

“I am not. From what she told Owen, she just wanted to make her position clear on Mr. Lennox to Mr. Furniss so there could be no misunderstanding.”

“Who is she?”

“Owen thinks there’s more to her than what he can see, but when he looked her up, all that comes back is owner of Bridge Security, mother of Kochai, who’s five, and Drew, who’s three, and wife to Evan Shah, a mild-mannered CPA.”

“Seriously?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay, so why are Owen and Nash on their way to see her?”

“Because Owen was so impressed, he wants to talk to her about becoming a contractor for Torus.”

“She’s not gonna want to⁠—”

“She agreed to talk when Owen said who he worked for.”

“So basically, he said Jared Colter and she said yes, absolutely, let’s chat.”

“Yep.”

“I don’t even—whatever. All I care about is⁠—”

“That she made sure Furniss could never hurt Ashford Lennox.”

“Yes,” I admitted. “I was worried.”

“Well, she was too, going by all she did. The word is that she never liked Furniss, but your man, she told Owen, is too nice for his own good.”

“Agreed.”

“But she has a new person for him who will meet him on his movie set after he leaves the wedding.”

“That I knew.”

“This Bridget Carran sounds great. I’d like to meet her.”

I groaned.