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“I’m that way anyway, may as well get a couple of hours surveillance in.”
Ty leans forward, drumming his fingers on the table. “Me and Kay are heading to Mom’s for dinner, and Evan will be with Lexi.” Ty turns his head, facing Dean. “You good with staying on the compound?”
“Sure.”
I read between the lines of what he’s saying, but at the end of the meeting when he asks to see me in his office, I know there must be more to it. And when Kay steps into the room with a folder full of papers, it confirms it.
“I’ve been doing some digging,” she says, sitting next to me on the sofa. “I’ve been trying to find out where he’s been for the last however many years since Kitty last saw him.”
“Okay.” I lean forward and take the folder from her. “What did you find?”
I look up when she’s silent for a beat and find her staring at Ty, a silent conversation going on between them.
“Nothing,” she finally tells me when she turns to face me.
I frown, flicking through the papers and seeing exactly what she said—nothing.
“He was a ghost?”
“Looks like it,” Ty says, crossing his arms over his chest. “I need to follow him.”
Tilting my head to the side, I close the folder and throw it down on the seat next to me. “That’s why you asked him to stay on the compound?”
He nods. “I need to see what he does when he thinks no one will be here.”
“You gonna be close by?”
“Yeah.”
Standing up, I stretch my arms out. “Well I’m gonna head to bed for a few. I’ll be back around midnight tonight.”
I take a step toward the door, but when Kay calls out to me, I stop.
“I have a bad feeling about this, Luke.” Facing her, I raise my brow. “I already told Ty, something seems off, but not in the normal way. I… I can’t put my finger on it.”
I wait, knowing there’s more she wants to say, but she holds back, grasping her hands in her lap.
“You got a feeling?” I ask.
“Yeah… I…” She blows out a breath. “Never mind, just be careful.”
I hesitate, knowing there’s more that needs to be said, but instead of acknowledging it, I say, “I always am.”
I pull my lips up into a smile before walking out of the office and over the mats toward Evan. I’m about to cash in the favor he owes me for fixing Lexi up. I told myself I wouldn’t do it, but it doesn’t matter how many times I try to tell myself I’m not gonna get involved, I can’t not.
“You owe me one,” I tell Evan, causing him to jump in his seat.
“Jeez, Luke! You scared me.”
Rolling my eyes, I then raise a brow. “You’re a pussy.”
“Hey! I am not!”
Laughing, I widen my stance. “Yeah, you are. Remember that time you thought there was a rat in your—”
“Okay, okay.” He throws his hands up in the air. “I get it.”
He turns around, before his fingers fly over the keys of his keyboard, his gaze flitting between several screens at the same time.
