Page 55 of Unexpected Storms

“There is no way I would let Alice go overseas. She’d get hurt.”

Alex and I laughed. “You aren’t worried that Maggie will get hurt?”

“She’s got Greg to watch out for her,” he snapped back. “And obviously, you too.”

“You could watch out for Alice.”

Alex shook his head. “Alice doesn’t need either of you to watch out for her.”

“Can we stop talking about Alice?” Jake growled. “She has nothing to do with this. What else happened on the delivery?”

For another few minutes, I shared more of our trip, and then Alice showed up in the office and said she needed to speak with Jake privately. I shot her a wink as I left the office.

A few minutes later, I was being called back to the office again. “What’s up?”

“I need you to handle a situation,” Jake said.

“What situation?” I glanced between Jake and Alice for a moment. She gave me a sly smile that I did not understand in the least bit.

“A friend needs some help with some security.”

“Okay—” I said slowly, waiting for more.

“Get with Mike and go check the place out. They need some specialized cameras.”

“Why do you need me? Can’t Mike do it on his own? He is the tech guy.”

“Because I want you to go too,” he hissed and then glared at Alice for a moment. She smiled sweetly at him, and he rolled his eyes.

“Just go check it out, see what they might need, and get it set up.”

“What is this about? I mean, what’s going on?”

“You’ll find out when you get there. I don’t know the details, and I don’t fucking want to know either.”

“Then why are we doing this?”

“Because I’m doing Alice a favor.” He stared at her, and she widened her smile.

“You can thank me later.” She patted me on the chest as she walked out of the room.

“Thank her later? For what?”

“I don’t know. Just go take care of it, or she’s going to drive me nuts.”

“Alice drives you nuts anyway. The two of you need to sleep together already.”

“I have no desire to sleep with Alice.”

I barked out a laugh. “Yeah, okay, boss. Keep telling yourself that,” I muttered as I left his office.

I grabbed Mike, told him what I knew, which wasn’t much, and then stopped at Alice’s desk. “So, what is going on?”

“I have a friend who needs help. She thinks someone might be sabotaging her business, and she wants cameras installed to watch the employees.”

“Why doesn’t she just hire a security company to do that?”

Alice gave me her signature, aren’t you just so cute and dumb look. “We are a security company. She needs this done quietly, without anyone else knowing.”

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