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The pain.
I couldn’t put my finger on it, but there was something about her that had my attention.
And apparently something about me had hers.
The monitoring system I had installed in James Industries’ records database had tipped me off that someone had been looking through invoices from the past several years.
There’d been nothing particularly of note, but it was unusual, and any deviation from the norm was something that caught my attention.
Elias had thought this whole Josh Kelley ruse was a mistake, and I was determined to prove him wrong. Which meant I had to keep tabs on absolutely everything that was happening at James Industries.
And someone looking through old files, something they didn’t have any reason to do, was definitely of note.
That it was her shouldn’t have been surprising.
After all, she was the record keeper and responsible for maintaining the files, something she was meticulous about.
So meticulous, in fact, that she had proven to be an impediment.
Elias had been pushing for a much more aggressive import schedule, but I had been wary.
Amethyst didn’t have any reason to look into shipments, but my gut told me to hold back, because I suspected she didn’t miss much.
Today, she was proving that to be true.
And I had to make sure she stopped.
I parked half a block away from her small house and waited, considering how I was going to handle this.
After a moment, I had decided.
As I approached her home, I felt a thrill, a charge that I hadn’t in a very long time.
This was going to be different than any other interaction I’d had with Amethyst, and I wasn’t quite sure how it would play out.
That unknown was exciting in and of itself.
There wasn’t much that surprised me.
I didn’t allow that to happen. In my line of work, in my life, surprise usually meant death, and I wasn’t ready for that.
But with Amethyst, there was something different.
I suspected I was going to see a new side of her, knew that she was going to see a new side of me, and I was intrigued by the prospect.
I saw her car, a sensible four-door sedan that was completely indistinct, parked in the driveway.
Save for a dim porch light, the house was dark. And it was eerily quiet.
But I knew she wasn’t sleeping.
I walked to the front door and rang the bell.
Then I stared at the bell, one of those fucking video things that I hated.
I didn’t hear anything stirring inside, but I knew she was approaching.
Could practically sense it.
