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“Are you sure you aren’t just a tad biased where Kyzer is concerned?”
“What reason would I have to be biased?”
“I’m not as naïve as you would like to think, Taz. I know all about the male ego and their territorial nature. Is it just possible you are perhaps feeling that someone is interested in the ‘territory’ you so expertly marked?” I threw in a smile and a slight batting of my eyes at him when I said it.
His face turned to stone.
On the other hand. . .
“Grow up, Lindsey, and get over yourself. You and I kicked it a few times, so what? I fuck a lot of chicks and don’t go all ‘territorial’ on them. This isn’t some game we’re playing like fucking sophomores in high school. You asked for my point of view and I gave it. I can’t control what you say or do with this guy. I would recommend you focus more on what type of information he attempts to extract from you. That will quickly show his true motives.”
I was embarrassed that he had called me out like some starry-eyed teenager. Everything he said sounded logical to me except for the fact that I didn’t see Kyzer as being a villain in any of this.
I did think that Taz was a bit out of sorts that we wouldn’t be sleeping together anymore. I knew about the male ego. At this point, the fact that I was working on developing a relationship with Kyzer would ultimately lead to it being a sexual one.
I felt that Taz was struggling with that, not because he was emotionally invested, but because it was a matter of male dominance. I had learned all about it in my Psych classes.
We had reached the building where my first class was scheduled. I marveled that Taz had known exactly where it was located without me giving direction or him having been here before. Then I remembered that Taz had done his homework as far as my schedule and the location of my classes. He was taking this seriously and I needed to respect that.
“Thanks for the lift, Taz. I will heed your advice regarding Kyzer and anyone else for that matter. I apologize for doubting your motives.”
I turned and opened the passenger side door to exit his truck. Just as I had jumped down to the pavement from his truck, Taz informed me he would see me between classes.
“Okay, I’ll see you then in about ninety minutes.”
“Lindsey,” he said, as I started to shut the door of his truck. I looked over at him. “Aren’t you going to give me a kiss goodbye?” he asked, tapping the side of his cheek with a finger.
I shook my head in exasperation and shut the door, turning to walk up towards the entrance to the building. I heard his sexy laughter as he pulled away.
CHAPTER 23
(Taz)
I watched Lindsey walk into the building where her first class was scheduled. I enjoyed watching her perky little cupcake ass wiggle just a tad in those tight jeans she was wearing. My mind pictured what that ass looked like naked. Shit! It was perfect and why the hell was I fucking torturing myself with it?
I pulled away and cruised through the lot looking for the Benz that Kyzer Stanfield drove. I found it in the lot across from Simmons Hall. Black sedan, Florida license plate 787 Tango, Bravo, Delta. Yeah. T.B.D. as in “To Be Determined.”
I parked the truck down from the lot, shutting it off. I slipped from my truck, reaching in the back seat and I opened my laptop, going into the Intel files that had been gathered so far.
Kyzer Michael Stanfield, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 10, 1992 to Thomas and Lila Stanfield. He was their only child, born to Lila when she was 42 years old.
Lila died as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage on October 6, 1996. The death certificate listed the cause as natural resulting from acute hypertension. She stroked out at the age of 46.
Thomas Stanfield, born on February 7, 1945, in New York City. Graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1967.
He married the younger Lila Mae Evans in June of 1980, after already starting Stanfield Industries, currently known as The Stanfield Group.
The Stanfield Group is a privately owned business having three segments of operation: Stanfield Industries, the flagship entity located in Philadelphia, is a manufacturing facility specializing in plastic injection molded parts of all sizes and configurations serving the transportation industry.
Stanfield Trading Company located in Miami, Florida, imports chemicals, powdered coatings, raw materials, machine tools and other miscellaneous industrial products.
The newest addition to the Stanfield portfolio is Stanfield Research, located in Atlanta, Georgia. That business segment was established by Thomas Stanfield in early 2010. It’s listed as a research and development facility for organic dietary supplements, boasting their own brand name of “Orga-Blend.”
At sixty-eight years of age, Thomas Stanfield is no longer physically able to run the operations of the group. His current wife, Sue Ellen Beasley- Stanfield, is acting CEO of the group. Both Mr. and Mrs. Stanfield currently reside in Naples, Florida.
None of the family had any criminal records. In fact, Kyzer was what we referred to as being squeaky clean, meaning our background check couldn’t cough up so much as a parking ticket. That kind of shit typically made me suspicious.
The stepmother was clean as well. Sue Ellen Beasley was thirty-five years old. She went to work for the Stanfield Group in 2008, eventually becoming old man Stanfield’s executive assistant. The two of them tied the knot on New Year’s Day in 2009.
