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In the dim light of the closet, Aiden's eyes were filled with desire as he looked at me. He was just as turned on as I was, and that only made me want him more.
Then I heard Dominic's voice outside. "Thanks so much, Detective Morgan. I can take it from here."
Aiden’s lips tightened as his hands slid from my skin. Disappointment covered his face, and it was unexpected.
A few minutes passed while we waited, wanting to make sure Dominic was truly alone. I used the time to adjust my clothes though nothing could change the throbbing heat I felt.
Finally, Dominic swung the closet door open and looked at us with amusement written across his handsome features.
“Not a word,” Aiden warned him as he stepped out, looking as dignified as ever.
Dominic raised his hands. "I don't even want to know."
We continued to search the long metal shelves full of case file boxes. Aiden paused, then said slowly, "August."
"September comes next," Dominic said helpfully.
"I think this might be a Caesar cypher," Aiden mused. “Your last name is Hart.”
I nodded, though the name seemed strange. I’d been justSelenafor so long.
"This name is Kduw August," he said. "The surname could be a clue that it's a Caesar cypher, and it's only four letters like Hart. If you shift each letter over..." He thought it over rapidly, already pulling the box off the shelf. "Then it would be Hart."
He opened the box, and I stared down into it.
My head swam. I’d wanted this so badly, and I could barely think for a second as I stared down at the hard drives and cell phones in the box.
But Aiden and Dominic were already going to work, hiding the evidence on their body, and I did the same. Woodenly, hearing my voice as if it came from a long way away, I asked, “How did you know that?”
“My father has a lot of police in his pocket in this city. But if one of them wanted to have something on us, he wouldn’t even need to take the box out of evidence. Just mislabel it.”
“It was smart,” I admitted, feeling impressed by these men and reluctant to admit it to myself.
Aiden slid the box back onto the shelf. “Let’s be self-congratulatory when we’re back at the house.”
And yet… the fact that Aiden had known about the Caesar cypher made me wonder if it had been someone close to him who had named it in the first place.
CHAPTER16
Selena
As we left,Aiden and Dominic paced ahead of me into the parking lot. Dominic said quietly to Aiden, "You have to let her have the hard drives and the cell phones."
It was supposed to be too quiet for me to overhear, but I did. Even after that moment when I’d held a gun and hadn’t shot him, Aiden still didn't entirely trust me.
And I didn’t entirely trust him.
Maybe I should take the files and run.
Once we got to the car and we had pulled down the street, Aiden pulled over, and he and Dominic pulled the various files and hardware they'd hidden on their bodies out and deposited them onto the box in my lap. We'd made it through the scans thanks to my special watch, making it look as if we didn't have any evidence.
Now I was staring down once again into a box that contained everything that remained about my parents’ untimely death.
Our drive home was quiet. I dreaded looking at the evidence at the same time as I felt desperate to know. What if it didn't contain any info that led me to my parents' killers?
Aiden must have sensed my unease because he reached over to take my hand. His touch was comforting, and I couldn't help but feel a spark of desire at the same time.
I couldn't stop thinking about the way he'd kissed me in the evidence storage room. I couldn't stop thinking about what it would be like to forget about my past for a few hours with Aiden.
