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With disgust, she marked the email unread and closed out of the program. Then she installed a very discrete remote monitoring program. As it was finishing, she heard footsteps on the stairs. She tapped her fingers nervously, watching the upload bar inch across the screen. “Come on, baby. Go, go, go.”
She pulled the USB from the computer just as Cole stepped through the door.
“Hey, how’s it going?”
“Good. I didn’t find much. Is Flint still here? I need to run something past him.”
Cole shook his head. “He ran out. Jessica called. Something about the baby shower?”
“Oh.” Joey fumbled with her bag. All of a sudden, she was very aware that she was alone with Cole Kensington, and she was also doubly sure that he was not the guy he seemed to be.
“You can probably call him.” Cole walked toward the desk. “Do you mind? I’m going to take care of a few things while we’ve got a minute.”
“Sure. I’ll go downstairs.”
“You’re welcome to stay up here. Then I can hear what you say to Flint.”
Joey froze. “Umm, oh. Okay, yeah.”
Why did he want to hear? Did he suspect something?
She moved away from him, circling the desk the opposite way he was coming from. She sat in one of the large, cushioned leather chairs across the room and pulled out her phone.
She heard a scoff from Cole.
“What’s wrong?”
He shook his head. “Just checking my email. Don’t worry about it too much.”
“Come on, let’s go downstairs and make a plan.”
CHAPTERFIFTEEN
Jared walkedthrough the door around one o’clock, carrying takeout bags from The Screaming Peach. “I come bearing gifts.”
Joey smiled at his offering. “You’re the best.”
“Just doing my job, ma’am.”
Joey stood up from the couch and met him at the kitchen counter to unload the food. “Cole’s upstairs taking a shower,” she told Jared.
“I’ll just throw his in the fridge.”
Joey unwrapped a sandwich and sipped the peach lemonade for a moment. She’d been down here for ten minutes alone, contemplating her next decision about Cole. No matter how attracted to him she was, or how good he might seem at times, she couldn’t forget the fact that he had this other side.
A darker side.
“Can I ask you a question, Jared?”
“I guess so,” he responded.
“Why do you work for Cole? What’s the story between you two?”
Jared glanced at the stairs, as though waiting for Cole to make an entrance, but they remained empty. He looked back at her.
“I don’t know that it’s my place to tell you Cole’s story.”
Joey pursed her lips thoughtfully. “Well, then just tell me your story,” she suggested.
