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“Rex Everly,” a gruff male voice answered curtly.
“Hi,” I replied, clearing my throat. “This is D.S. Lucas. I’m following up on an open case and wondered if you could help.”
“D.S. Lucas?”
I could hear the bewilderment in his voice.
“Is my office handling one of your cases?”
“No,” I clarified. “The victim, in my case, works for you.”
“Oh.” That stopped him in his tracks. “Can I ask who?”
“Of course.” I wanted to laugh. If I didn’t want to share the information, I wouldn’t be calling in the first place. “Miss Tiffany Noble.”
“Tiff?” His puzzlement was palpable. “What about her? Has something happened?”
What was that in his voice? Unease?
“I’m not sure what you know,” I went on. “But Miss Noble was involved in a kidnap and harassment case earlier this year.” Surely, he knew about it. She must have taken weeks away from work.
“Oh, you mean the trouble with Kade?” He chuckled, as if the allegations against Walker were trivial. It wasn’t what I expected from a man who ran a prosecution office.
“Trouble isn’t how I would describe it,” I answered, confused by his cavalier attitude. No wonder we weren’t securing convictions if this was how the lawyers handled them. “The allegations were serious, Mr. Everly.”
“Oh, I know.” His tone was clipped. “But there was no persuading Tiff to press charges. In fact, the last I saw of her, she was insistent about him.”
“What?” I demanded, gripping the receiver even tighter. “What do you mean, the last you saw of her? Doesn’t she work for you?”
“Not anymore.”
My heart raced as Granger arrived with my coffee. Mouthing my gratitude, my focus returned to Everly’s explanation.
“She left more than a month ago.”
“To go where?” It was really none of my business, but the idea that she’d just up and left when she was in therapy and doing so well at work was suspicious.
“I don’t have all the details.” His tone suggested he missed her more than he was letting on. “But apparently, whatever they had together was more important than our Chambers.”
“Whateverwhohad together?” My brows knitted as I drew the hot drink toward me.
“Tiff and Kade.”
I swore my heart missed a beat as I processed his words. “You mean they’re together again?” That was news to me.
“Yep. She moved south to be with him, quit her job and went to play happily ever after.” His cynical laughter suggested he was about as skeptical as I was. “I haven’t heard from her since.”
Jesus. Holding the receiver away from my face, I stared at the grinning expression of Walker flickering on my computer screen. What the hell had Tiffany been thinking? She’d abandoned her life to run off and be with the man who’d terrorized her.
“Detective?” Everly’s insistent tone drew me back to the phone.
“Yes, sorry…”
“Is there anything else? I have a busy day ahead.”
“No.” His admission had caught me totally off guard. “Not unless you have a forwarding address for Miss Noble?”
“Unless you have an active case, we both know I don’t have to give you that.” His chuckle grated on my nerves. “But in truth, I don’t have one. Only her mobile number, which I assume is still current.”
