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Police in Knoxville had the guy under surveillance. Many had said Cole/Colin had been out of town for weeks and then come back. He worked as a janitor, which would explain some of the calluses on his hands. The company he worked for had said their employee had been out on a work injury and had just returned two weeks ago.
It all sounded like the perfect crime in his eyes. This trip was for questioning and the local police going with them for the arrest if warranted, then he’d be transported back to Charlotte with them.
“Her name is Faith O’Malley.”
“Why does that name sound familiar?”
“Because it’s the woman whose dog caught the mugger that day.”
James started to laugh. “As I said. Lucky bastard. Only you catch a mugger on your day off and then get the woman at the end.”
“I’m not so sure I’ve got the woman at the end. It’s been a little over a month.”
“What?” James almost yelled. “You’ve been seeing someone all this time and haven’t said a word?”
“It was a few dates at first,” he said.
“It’s not like Genevieve,” James said.
He snorted. It’d been a while since he’d heard that name. “Not likely.” And just another lesson on being a fool that he’d never let happen again.
“What happened? You asked her out?”
“You’re so much like a chick,” he said.
“Hey,” James said. “I’m married and once Sondra finds out, she’s going to want all the details.”
He rolled his eyes. He knew this would happen. “We are keeping it quiet. I know that is hard for you to do, but for now, we’d like it that way.”
“Why?” James asked. “Your grandmother has to be on cloud nine. Maybe now she’ll back off wanting to set you up.”
Just like he figured. James was going to want to know everything.
“You know my grandmother lives next to the Fierces, right?”
“Yes,” James said. “And that they are in your grandmother’s ear trying to set you up.”
“Faith’s aunt is Jolene Fierce,” he said.
“You let someone set you up! You never letmeset you up,” James said.
“No,” he said. “I just told you that I met her with the mugger arrest. You know that. I had no idea who she was and she didn’t know who I was either. It wasn’t until we were out to dinner one night we got talking about things and I said how my grandmother wanted to set me up. She said she had an aunt doing the same thing. She asked the name of my grandmother’s neighbors after I joked about them knowing something about beer.”
“Charlotte is too big of a city for that to just happen,” James said. “Are you sure it wasn’t a setup?”
Sawyer laughed this time. He had to. “Unless Jolene or my grandmother hired that guy to mug a woman at the same time Faith would be walking Fred and I’d be out for a run, then the answer is no. But there is one more problem with this.”
“What problem is that?”
“We found out that they are working together.” No reason to get into specifics with James. “They slipped and said my name to Faith. Just a first name. Not really a slip, but they don’t know what is going on either. It gave us a heads up.”
“This is unreal,” James said, rubbing his hands together. His buddy would find enjoyment in this when his ass wasn’t on the hot seat. “But keep talking.”
He was going to have a sore throat if he talked this whole trip. Best to get it all out now, then he could tune James out or let him listen to his eighties hair band music for hours.
“We decided to get one step ahead of them. We wanted to see how this would play out. My grandmother was bold and right to the point that Jolene had someone she thought would be perfect for me. I asked the name, just to be safe, and found out it was Faith. Then I asked my grandmother if she’d met Faith yet. For all my grandmother knew, Faith could be a total dud.”
“Or you were thinking she was like Genevieve.”
