Why would Nelson sneak into their office? What could he hope to gain? He’d always tried to stay away from them. “Do we have him on video?”
Ian growled. It was the way he’d communicated since they were kids. “I can’t find the things. I’m calling the company that programmed the backup system. I hope we still have the security tapes, but the way the rest of my fucking week is going, I’m sure someone taped soap operas over them. Can I borrow Adam for a couple of hours?”
“Any idiot can run the pics we took today through a facial recognition system,” Adam said.
Ian sighed. “Thank god. Then Sean can do it.”
Sean flipped his brother off. Ah, brotherhood.
“Fine, Sean can run the pictures. The GPS bugs we planted today will send us reports.” Alex wanted to get everything out of the way so he could spend some more time with Eve. He’d realized something today. He really only had the next weeks of this mission to convince her. When they got back to the real world, she would question everything and start putting up roadblocks. He had no intention of going backwards. He needed to use this time to bind her to him again.
Adam slapped his hands together with obvious glee at getting to use his new toys. “I got the reports on the bugs already. I told you they would immediately start reporting back. You got two tagged. Way to go, Alex. I was hoping you could get one. The bad news is one of the bugs tracked right to a dry cleaner and now it’s dead. Apparently the dry cleaning process is hell on delicate but brilliantly crafted new technology. But the second one just landed at LaGuardia. It looks like we’re getting some movement.”
“Well, really?” Eve asked, a satisfied smile on her face. “Now I wonder which one is still giving deeply helpful information and which one is dead?”
“I can still spank you.” Damn it. She’d been right, but he stood by his rule. She could have gotten hurt. Just because she’d been right didn’t prove a damn thing. He’d already known she was smarter than him. Everyone knew it. Hell, he was pretty sure there had been a billboard taken out proclaiming it.
“You like to spank me for no reason at all,” Eve said with the most adorable pout.
He did. He would get his hands on her for any reason he could think of. “Get me the information, Adam. I need that information and anything Sean could find. Do we have a workable connection on Chazz’s cell phone? Jake gave me the signal that he’d tapped Chazz’s cell.”
“All I’ve gotten so far is Chazz ordering pizza with double meat and trying to hook up with two of his servers. Someone named Bambi likes to say ewwww a lot and hang up on him. He’s very positive. He just keeps calling back,” Sean explained. “Why did I pull babysit the douchebag duty? Couldn’t Kris do this? She has a way better sense of humor when it comes to two idiots trying to hook up.”
He had plans for Kristen. This was his night off so it would look suspicious if he showed up. “Kris is going back to the club tonight. She’s going to try to lift Chazz’s keys and make a copy of the key to his office.”
Ian frowned. “Shouldn’t you do that yourself?”
“She’s my best shot tonight.” They had worked it all out during the drive from St. Augustine to Palm Coast. “I don’t have any reason to be in the club until tomorrow night when Eve and I start our nightly performances. The club is closed for a private party for some of Chazz’s friends. According to Kristen, he likes to get really drunk. Jake didn’t get a shot at it last night, so Kristen is taking hers tonight.”
“You’re putting an awful lot of trust in someone you don’t know,” Ian said.
How did he explain Kristen? There was something deep in his gut that told him she was worth trusting. “I think she’s the best person to do this job. She’s been nothing but helpful up to this point.”
“Eve, what do you think?” Ian asked, deferring as he often did to Eve. She knew people. She rarely screwed up.
Eve glanced up, obviously looking for Kristen, but she hadn’t reappeared. “I think she’s hiding something, but I don’t think she means any of us harm. I truly believe she wants to do this job and catch Michael Evans. I don’t know if I completely believe her reasons for doing so, but I don’t sense anything from her that would make me distrust her. If I had to go off what I know right now, I would say she’s screwed up in the past. She’s looking for redemption and she goes about it by uncovering corruption and helping people. I would say she probably lives a fairly solitary life. Her parents are either dead or she has a distant relationship with them. She’s looking for a family, seeking to cobble together a group of friends to call her own. Earlier today, Alex did something that really pissed her off, but she still got to her knees to talk to me.”
“Why were you on your knees?” Liam asked.