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“Really?” I feel the heat rising under my collar due to the sudden increase in doing things behind my back. “What’s that about?” I fold my arms over my chest and take on an aggressive stance.
“If you must know, I have proven that I’m not the leak, but also that the person leaking the information is the same person that is stalking me,” she says. “The police are sending a couple of officers over to examine and collect evidence.”
As I stand there, angry and yet in a state of wonder, it finally sinks into my head that she’s definitely hurt by my investigation of her. “Lily, I want to apologize again. I’m sorry that I didn’t believe you.”
I settle my aggressive self and see the new guy walking from the back of the office with a quickness in his pace. He has his phone out and swipes across his screen. “I need you to look at this, Miss,” he says, showing her the front of his phone. “And you too, Mr. Boss-man.”
Lily’s mouth drops to the floor as the expert continues to swipe photo after photo across the screen of his phone. “Where did you get these?” she asks, her face ashen from the photos.
“They are snapshots of a file of pictures named ‘Her,’ nested under a document file from Jeff’s computer,” he informs her while looking at me.
My face freezes in horror to see Lily in various outfits, from silky pajamas and negligees to work apparel and jogging clothes. Some of the pictures even show her in the nude, getting in or out of the shower. “Oh, my god!”
“Apparently, with such an affinity for you, he had at some point installed cameras in your home. Some in, let’s just say personal areas,” the detective informs us. He takes his phone and shuts it down to keep the information to upload into a case file.
“That guy has had me and David fooled for the longest time,” I shake my head and place my hand on my hips. All of the angst I had before is now completely consumed by this. “He’s one of our best engineers and has been with us since I started this company.”
“Anything else you’d like to add?” he asks.
“No,” replies Lily and I shake my head to signify a ‘no’ answer.
“We are still looking into who is paying Jeff for the information. We don’t want to spook him too early by arresting him without this detail,” he says and then leaves the room.
Lily goes and sits behind her desk as I head into my office closing the door behind me. I still can’t believe it and right under my nose the entire time. One thing’s certain. He did capture some beautiful poses of Lily.
As gross as it is, I can’t help but want the photos.
Forty
Lily
The police come in the early afternoon and call for a meeting with me, David and James. Arriving at the conference room toward the back of the office, I take a seat between David and James.
James sits back in the seat, looking cool as a cucumber with one leg crossing over the other. Inside, he must be a hot mess with all of this blowing up in his face. He’s been looking into this since I began working here and in two days, these cops found what they needed to move the investigation forward.
That has to be hard to swallow.
David on the other hand is eager to resolve this matter once and for all. He’s leaning on his elbows, listening intently to what is being conveyed from the information obtained.
Listening to the cops and the investigator, I’m more certain now than ever that Jeff is the one that groped me in the closet. In all reality, I’m not one bit surprised that Jeff is the one that is stealing the company’s secrets.
With the detective talking, he tells the others of what he found on Jeff’s computer without compromising me. “We have further evidence that Jeff is also very taken by Ms. Dodson. I found an entire file on her with several pictures taken without her permission.”
An eerie silence falls over the room and everyone looks at me from their seats at the table. I want to slide under the table and scurry out of the room like a scared field mouse. I can feel the heat rise to my cheeks as the staring faces look back at an officer.
“Ms. Dodson?” the officer asks.
“Yes?” my voice cracks and quivers in fear of what he is going to say.
“We will need for you to continue to act as you normally do. We can’t make an arrest until we have the warrant,” he directs me.
“And, if I may add,” intercedes the investigator, “as I said this morning to you and Mr. Rawlings, we don’t want to spook him into leaving the vicinity.”
My body literally shivers at the thought of playing nice to a man like Jeff and what he has done to me. I can just see him sneering at me from behind the wall of the kitchenette. Gross! It creeps me out, but I’ll play along in hopes of him being arrested soon.
“What is the plan for now?” David asks the collection of people at the front of the room.
“Along with Ms. Dodson’s cooperation in acting naturally, I plan to continue the feed of false information to Jeff, in the off-chance that he will sell it to his client,” the undercover agent explains.
