Above 'N' Beyond by Tee O'Fallon

Author:Tee O'Fallon [O'Fallon, Tee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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ISBN: 9781649373090
Google: iYjYEAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 199139554
Publisher: Entangled: Amara
Published: 2023-10-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Sounds of pots and pans banging around in the kitchen filtered into the private banquet room. Bella glanced at the door, gripping the rail of the ladder tighter. The door was locked, and only she, Paola, and Tony had a key to this room.

On the off chance one of them came in while she was up on the ladder, she’d tucked a packet of replacement bulbs in her pocket, ready to lie her butt off and claim she was changing out some of the dead bulbs in the light strands.

Discreetly getting these cameras in place, so she could test them out well in advance of whatever special meeting Paola had planned for next week, had proven more difficult than she’d thought. Now, with the dinner seating only thirty minutes off, the Bistro’s staff was busy setting tables, filling salt shakers, and doing any number of things necessary for a restaurant to function.

She adjusted the ladder, moving it as close as possible to the corner of the room. The building was old, built in the mid-1800s with high ceilings and original stamped-tin tiles.

Part of her still couldn’t believe she was doing this—spying on her own family. James Bond she wasn’t, but two of the puppy cams were already in position, plugged into the corner outlets and carefully concealed by potted silk ferns.

She pinched the bridge of her nose. This might very well be her one and only opportunity to gather information she could use to bargain with, but she still didn’t know if she actually had the courage to go through with it.

Leverage. That’s all this was. A bargaining chip.

She rolled her eyes to the ceiling. Who was she kidding? This is blackmail. Pure and simple. If there was ever going to be a way for her to force Paola’s hand, that’s what it would take.

Don’t chicken out now.

After blowing out a loud breath, she wrapped the cord of the last camera around her hand so she wouldn’t drop it, then climbed up the ladder. The ceiling was so high she could barely reach the electrical outlet in the corner above the ledge.

Near the top wrung, she unwrapped the cord, then plugged in the camera. A bright blue light confirmed the cam had power. She pulled a roll of black electrical tape from her pocket, tore off a tiny square, then pressed it over the light, the same way she’d done with the other two puppy cams. Before shifting the ferns in place to conceal the camera, she tugged her brand-new cell phone from her back pocket and cued up the app to verify the lens angle.

As soon as the store had opened that morning, she’d traded in her ancient cell phone and gotten one with an upgraded operating system. Then she’d logged into her account and followed the directions Jimmy had given her to sync the new phone to the cameras.

Thank you, Jimmy.

Still poised on the ladder, she touched two fingers to her lips and shivered. Kissing Jimmy again shouldn’t have happened, but it had.

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