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“I’m not sure what I think of that,” Miles said, frowning. “Kind of rude, don’t you think?”

“Depends,” Betsy said. “Could be fun too. I like all the stuff he does and love it when I get to play detective.”

Miles’s shoulders wiggled a bit. “I suppose you’ve got a point. Regan would enjoy something like that.”

“That is why I said it’s interesting. Do you think it could have been them on a date?” Betsy asked.

“I’ll see if I can dig up anything else. She came in tired this morning. She never is. Said she had a good weekend and even took a nap and felt refreshed.”

As much as he liked trying to set Regan and Zander up, he wasn’t going to say he suspected his boss might have gotten a piece of ass.

There was just a little pep in her step that had been missing for a while, but that could be anything.

“No reason to jump to conclusions,” Betsy said. “One thing I learned from this job.”

“We’ve got something for now. Not sure it’s much...wait a minute.”

“What?” Betsy asked.

He was playing things in his mind and debating what he should say. Betsy worked for Zander so she’d know about the case with Sophia, but he didn’t know if she knew yet.

“Just that Regan needs to talk to Zander about something for a client. She’d mentioned that he was aware it was coming. We just found out on Friday.”

“I haven’t seen Zander yet today,” Betsy said. “When I came in, he’d left the receipts with a note and was gone. It’s possible he knows and will say something. So if Regan said Zander knows, they at least talked on Friday at some point?”

“Yes,” he said. “Just don’t know the timing of it.”

“Unless she has his cell phone number, it wasn’t while I was here on Friday to answer the phone.”

“This is getting good,” he said, rubbing his hands together. “Now I know why you love it. Okay, we’ve got some things to work on. Keep me posted.”

“You do the same. Do you think we should let the Fierces know anything?”

“We don’t know anything for sure, so why would we tell them?” he asked.

“Good point. It just slipped my mind. I’m going to start dropping hints if he brings up Regan’s name in the next week or so.”

“I’ll do the same.”

He rushed back to his desk before Regan finished with Zachery and started to research how to look for signs of someone having a secret relationship.

When Regan came out of her office twenty minutes later, he wasn’t fast enough to push the screen down.

“What are you looking at?” she asked. “Are you worried one of these two guys might be cheating or trying to figure out how to keep them both on the hook without getting caught?”

He kept a straight face. “Maybe both.”

Regan rolled her eyes. “Don’t get caught. I don’t want to have to deal with a broken-hearted Miles again.”

“Never,” he said. “I’ve got you to lean on if I’m feeling it though.”

“You know you always do,” she said and walked back into her office.

There was a tiny bit of guilt in his brain right now, but it was for her own good. If the Fierces had her in their sights, then it’d work out. At least from what Betsy said.

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