Bad Bachelor by Stefanie London

Author:Stefanie London
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2017-12-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“I don’t believe in regrets. Dating Reed taught me a lot of things, even if it took a while for the pain to subside. Now I know how to avoid men like him.”

—AnyaMark

Reed eased himself into a booth, cringing as his quads protested the movement. Last night, after dinner with Sofia and Gabriel, he’d punished his body at the gym in the hopes it might quiet the worry. But no amount of physical activity seemed to get his head in the right space.

It was that damn woman.

He couldn’t seem to get through a night without replaying what it was like to peel away the clothes from her skin. To kiss her deep and hard. To show her she didn’t need to settle for some boring, middle-management type.

“Can I get you something to eat?”

He hadn’t even realized the server had come to take his order. “Just coffee.”

“How do you like it?” The server winked at him saucily, her bright-blue eyes and cherry-stained lips something that should have appealed. Would have appealed if he wasn’t so damn occupied with a certain prickly librarian.

“Black,” he said. “One sugar. And whatever my friend wants.”

He gestured to Peter, who was ambling toward the table slow and steady. The man was good at his job, but he never seemed to move with any sense of urgency. Reed’s mentor had told him once there was a fine line to how a man walked—too fast and people assumed you didn’t have things under control. Too slow and people assumed you didn’t care.

But Reed had found people who walked slowly toward a meeting were usually stalling because they had bad news.

“Coffee. Two creams and two sugars for me.” Peter grunted as he slid into the booth. “And a bagel with cream cheese.”

When the server had gone, Reed turned to Peter. “Okay, you said you needed a week to fully look into this. I’ve been exceptionally patient, but I’m hoping to hell you have something for me.”

Peter wriggled his nose, causing his giant mustache to bob up and down. “Depends on your definition of something. The people behind Bad Bachelors have made an effort to cloak their identities. I had my tech guy look at the site and they’re locked down tight. Whoever built it knew how to cover their tracks better than a bunch of Russian hackers.”

Not surprising. Reed would have bet his last ten bucks he wasn’t the only one after answers either. The folks at Bad Bachelors would be racking up enemies. Fast. But he wouldn’t allow them to stay hidden if he could help it. If they wanted to expose him, then they could expect a taste of their own medicine.

“That’s why I’m paying you to go digging,” Reed said. “What have you got so far?”

Peter pulled out a small notebook from his satchel and flipped it open to a page with some scrawled notes. Old school. “I started with the company that created the app, Bad Bachelors Inc. It’s referenced on their website and in several articles about the app.

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