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This again. “No one is targeting me.” He starts to argue with me, but I hold up my hand to stop him. “Seriously. Think about it. My office was ransacked at night when no one was here. My house was ransacked when I wasn’t home as well.”
“But you could have been home. In fact, based on the time of the break-in at your house, you should have been home.”
Little does he know. I’m almost never home in the evening. I’m either out hunting skirt chasers or I’m at Pops’ bar. “Nothing about this spells personal. I think whoever is doing this is looking for something.” It can’t be personal. It just can’t.
“What do you think they’re looking for?” Aiden opens his notebook and pulls out a pen as if I’m going to give him a list. Hardly.
“I have no idea.”
He tilts his head and raises his eyebrow. “Seriously? You have no idea?” He snorts as if he doesn’t believe me. “You don’t think there’s a possibility some man you caught cheating is after the proof of his infidelity. Some man who is being taken to the cleaners in his divorce due to pictures you took.”
Not this again. “But we don’t keep proof of any man’s infidelity here.”
He looks confused “But that’s what you do, isn’t it? You take pictures of cheaters. You Cheat, We Eat?”
I roll my eyes. “Yes, of course. But we don’t keep the pictures.”
“Explain.”
“Okay, here’s how it works. I take the pictures. Suzie prints them and sends them to the client. We don’t keep copies of the pictures in our files. We only keep the background research, my notes, which prove absolutely nothing, and the client invoices.”
“Here’s the thing.” Aiden leans forward. “No one knows about this procedure except for you and Suzie.”
Damn. He’s right. Well, shit.
Aiden smirks as if he’s confident in my impending capitulation. “Let’s go through your files and see who has motive to find those pictures.”
I haven’t capitulated yet, though. “Why are you making a big deal of this? I know how the police work. This case has to be a low priority and yet, here you are, spending precious time talking to me, going over cases.”
“You don’t get it, do you?”
I huff. Obviously not.
“I don’t want you to be in danger.”
“I’m not in danger!” I’m starting to sound like a broken record.
He growls as he leans forward. “You don’t know that for sure. Just because you got lucky twice doesn’t mean you’re not in danger. Obviously, he didn’t find what he’s looking for, and I doubt he’s going to give up.”
“Fine! We’ll go through my case files.” I stand and stomp to the door. I open it, and Suzie falls into the room. Someone is a crappy eavesdropper. “Did you not hear me stomping toward the door?”
“I thought maybe you were stomping toward Aiden. Angry sex is the hottest sex.”
“Angry sex!” I squeak. “Why would I be having sex with Aiden in my office in the morning?”
Suzie rolls her eyes. “Because he’s hot and you’ve had a crush on him since tenth grade.”
I’m going to slap her. Seriously. Slap the living shit out of her. No woman on a jury will convict me for battery. Not when Suzie broke the girl code in such a spectacular fashion.
Phoebe arrives and pulls Suzie until she’s out of the danger zone. I continue to glare daggers at her. When the daggers don’t work, I engage my lasers. They seem to be malfunctioning as well. I take a step forward, but Phoebe stands in my way.
“It’s not worth it. There’s a cop right behind you.”
Whoops. I forgot all about Aiden. My face heats, and I’m sure I’m as red as a lobster when I turn around and offer him the fakest smile possible. “I’m going to go get those files for you,” I announce before escaping.
I spend fifteen minutes in the file room pulling the files of our clients for the previous three months. Actually, I spend five minutes pulling files and then ten minutes staring out of the window debating whether I can climb out of it before Aiden realizes I’m gone.
“You’re going to have to go in there sometime,” Phoebe says from right behind me.
