Awakened by Kate Douglas

Author:Kate Douglas
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781466871212
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2016-06-27T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Theo stood in the doorway watching Ted as he got his first glimpse of his new office. Marc had given Theo carte blanche with the set-up, and Theo hadn’t taken any shortcuts. It still smelled of paint and sawdust, but the crew had worked through the past two nights and they’d done a wonderful job.

The room had originally been intended for storage, yet they’d never stored a thing inside.

Now the walls had been painted a deep gray-blue with non-glare overhead lighting. Blinds covered a window with the same view as Marc’s office of Yerba Buena Island, but the computer equipment appeared to be what had Ted’s eyes glazing over. Theo had chosen a curved wall that now held two thirty-inch computer screens—also curved—across the upper half, and three twenty-inch screens across the lower.

There was a color laser printer, copy machine, desktop computer with a six terabyte hard drive, and all the high-tech toys any one man could want. A laptop was set off to one side, synced to the main system so that Ted could take everything with him when he did fieldwork. The office even had its own gun safe.

Ted turned and stared over his shoulder at Theo. “This is all for me?”

“It is. Those top two screens will give you the same views Ben has in his office—the different screens on the grid are security cams at all of our properties, including the winery in Dry Creek Valley. Use the mouse, click on the screen and in many cases you can get audio, but only if the person on that end enables it. Marc doesn’t want anyone to think he’s spying on them. This is all about safety.”

“Wait a minute. This is real time? That’s the winery? Aren’t those sheriff’s vehicles in front of the house? How can I pull this in closer?”

Theo was there in a heartbeat, grabbed the mouse, and tapped a couple of onscreen icons before bringing the winery image full screen. “Shit. That’s Marc, and it looks like he’s covered in blood. I’m going to call Mandy.” As he reached for his phone, Ted pulled the image up closer.

“Looks like Mandy’s holding a cloth to his back, but he’s still bleeding. Where the hell’s an ambulance? Try Marc’s phone, Theo. He’s talking, doesn’t look like he’s hurting too badly, but hell. This is not good.”

* * *

Marc’s phone chimed. “Mandy? Babe, can you get that out of my left pocket.”

Holding the blood-soaked paper towels to his back with her right hand, she reached in with her left, found his cell phone in the pocket of his running shorts, and handed it to him.

He glanced at the screen and immediately answered. “It’s Theo. Hey, man. Good timing.” He clicked it on speaker.

“Marc! I was just showing Ted his new state-of-the-art office and explaining how the security cameras covered all your places of business, and we look at the one for Intimate and see your skinny ass, half naked and covered in what looks like blood.

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