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Another tap then Tanner pulls his feet from the desk and sits up straight in his leather, executive chair.
“Everly has reappeared. I know you know that because everyone received texts about it last night. Everyone responded. Except you. You ignored them. I’m not surprised.”
“I was busy at the club getting Brinley under thumb.”
Jesus. How many things am I supposed to juggle at once for this asshole?
Rolling the pen between his fingers, Tanner refuses to ease up on the barrage of questions. He’s spitting them out rapid fire.
“And how did that go? Do you know where Jerry Thornton is? Where is Brinley now? Do you have her locked away somewhere? When do we get to interrogate her?”
“I haven’t gotten that far yet,” I yell, interrupting him.
He sits back in his chair. Eyes me. That damn pen still rolling between his fingers.
“So you fucked up is what you’re telling me. Why am I not surprised?”
I’m about to snatch that pen out of his hand and stab his eyes out with it.
“No. I haven’t fucked up. After I leave here, I’m going to the shop where Brinley will be, and I’ll get the information out of her then.”
His eyes narrow. “Why will she be at the shop?”
Stabbing a hand through my hair, I run it down the back of my neck and squeeze the tense muscles. It’s always frustrating as hell to deal with Tanner when he’s like this.
Which is most of the time.
“Because Priest and I were able to steal her car last night and take it to the shop. Priest has already called her in and lied to say her car needs repairs that she needs to sign for. I’ll get the information out of her while she’s there.”
Seemingly satisfied with that, his expression returns to normal, and he taps his pen against the desk again.
“I need more information than just her dad. After thinking about it, Gabe and I are under the impression that Brinley may know about Everly’s whereabouts too. It only makes sense considering the governor was on the phone with Brinley’s father when Everly was mentioned. At least according to what Ivy told us at the cabin. It means those three are somehow connected, and therefore, Brinley may also be connected.”
For once, I’m already one step ahead of Tanner. It feels good.
“Already thought of that,” I tell him, pride edging every word. “And that’s because I know something you don’t.”
I pause for dramatic effect, but the mere seconds of silence drive Tanner up a wall and back down again. No patience, this one.
“And that is?”
Stretching my legs out in front of me over the floor, I hook one ankle over the other.
“Brinley was at Emily and Mason’s engagement party. I ran into her near one of the inside bars and spilled my drink on her. She was pissed, which is why I remember it. The chick has a mouth on her.”
Another pause which only drives Tanner back up the wall.
Rolling his hand through the air, he motions for me to continue talking.
Fuck it. Might as well stop celebrating my victory of knowing more than him and spit out what I’m thinking.
“The fact that she was there that night makes me wonder if Jerry running off with those servers had everything to do with the governor and nothing to do with Luca calling him. He may have planned it all along. I’ll admit, I didn’t make the Everly connection until you mentioned it just now, but possibly it’s all connected.”
Tanner throws the pen at me. I barely dodge it.
“Exactly, asshole! I was just explaining that to you a few seconds ago. So now that you have Brinley in a place where you can get to her, you need to drag information out of her about both her father and Everly.”
He stops, grabs another pen then taps it on the desk.
