Page 22 of My Temptation

“Maybe.” I grinned, but when I saw movement by the front door, I sat up taller. “Do you see that?”

Ethan lifted the binoculars to his eyes. “Looks like the Skinner boys are going out.”

We watched them get into a car, start it, and back out of the driveway.

“You want me to follow them?”?he asked.

Smiling out the windshield, I shook my head. “Nope.”

“Why not?”

Glancing at him, I widened my smile. “They’re going out, so we’re going in.”

“Thought we were just doing surveillance.”

I waited until their taillights disappeared around the corner before throwing open my door. “We were. Now we’re going in.”

“Dammit.” Ethan pushed open his door, and we quietly ran across the road toward the dark house. “I hope you know what you’re doing because I’ve never done any breaking and entering.”

Hunching down, I moved slowly around the side of the house, watching carefully for any cameras. “Guess we’ll find out. You see any cameras?”

He pulled out his phone, and after a few seconds, he said, “Looks like a few laptops and a couple of TVs are connected.”

Glancing over my shoulder, I gestured toward his phone. “What the hell is that?”

“An app Kyle developed to let us know what devices use Wi-Fi in and around the home.”

I studied him in disbelief before shaking my head. “We need to clone him.”

Ethan chuckled softly but looked down at his phone. “Bingo. Camera. Looks like there’s one in the front and back. I’ll bet both face the doors.”

“Then we’ll use a window.” I moved along the house, checking every window and hoping like hell that someone forgot to lock one, but I had no luck. “We need to try the other side of the house.”

We jogged to the wood line to make sure we stayed out of the range of the camera on the back of the house. We got to the other side, and I began trying the windows, smiling huge when the last one I tried finally gave us the needed access.

I shoved the window open, grabbed the windowsill, and pulled myself through. I heard Ethan coming in behind me just as I stood and turned on my flashlight.

“What are we looking for?” Ethan asked.

“I don’t know,” I admitted. “Anything that tells us more about Max and Rick Skinner. It could be as small as a receipt for something they bought.”

“Got it,” Ethan replied.

We worked side by side, completely in sync, almost as if we’d done this before. His efficiency impressed me, but I wasn’t surprised. Jax and Brody were serious about training, and I had no doubt Ethan wouldn’t be on surveillance with me if they didn’t think he was ready.

Disappointed, I stopped and faced Ethan when we finally made it back to where we started. “There’s nothing here.”

“Maybe on the computers?” he suggested.

“We’d need Kyle to access those. I’m good, but I’m not nearly as fast as Kyle, and we don’t have much time.” I put my hands on my hips and looked around the bedroom before sighing and gesturing to the window. “Dammit. I really hoped we’d find something.”

“Think they have another location?”

“Maybe.” I considered that for a moment. “Actually, that would make sense. Skinner’s smart enough to know the police would search this house first if they were suspicious of him.” Reaching out, I tapped his arm and smiled. “You’re pretty good at this, you know.”

He smirked. “You can’t spend the amount of time I have with Brody and not pick up on a few things.”

“That’s true.” I moved toward the window and climbed out, waited for him to follow, and together, we jogged back across the street toward the car.

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