Belonging to Her Mountain by Marla Monroe

Author:Marla Monroe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2018-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Tammy brushed back a strand of hair that had worked its way free of her ponytail. She’d been on her feet since six a.m. and still had four hours left. The breakfast crowd had lasted until nearly eleven, and then the lunch crowd showed up and she was rushing around once more. Her current job as a secretary hadn’t prepared her to be on her feet for ten hours. She was going to need to invest in better shoes.

She’d talked to the guys the night before. They planned to pick her up at six and take her to eat. While she desperately wanted to see them, she was exhausted and wasn’t sure that it was a good idea. She would have to be at work at six the next morning.

She hurried over to a new customer and asked what she could get him to drink. He looked like a businessman more than one of the regular kinds of people she would expect to see at a truck stop.

“Coffee and maybe a piece of whatever pie you have,” he said.

“We’ve got apple and peach left,” she said.

“I’ll go with apple.”

Tammy brought his pie out with a cup of coffee. She started to turn to leave, but he reached out and snagged her wrist.

“You work for Bigsby and Sessions, right?” he asked.

“Um, well, for now. I won’t be working there after next Friday,” she said.

“Why are you quitting?” he asked.

“Um, I don’t really want to talk about it. Who are you?” she asked, narrowing her eyes.

“I’m Special Agent Bruce Wilson. I’d like to talk to you after your shift about your bosses,” he said, flashing his badge with his photo on it.

“What about them?” she asked.

“Have you noticed anything different about them lately? The way they act?”

“Look, I have to work. I can’t talk to you right now,” she said, looking around at her customers. “I need this job.”

Tammy hurried away and grabbed a coffee carafe to refill mugs and make sure her other customers didn’t need anything else. The agent remained in the diner until her quitting time. She could feel his eyes on her everywhere she went as she worked. It was unnerving and a little creepy.

When she hung up her apron and clocked out, she found him standing outside the truck stop, waiting on her.

“Let’s talk in my car,” he said.

“Look, I don’t know you from Adam’s housecat. I’m not sitting in your car. What do you want to know?” she demanded.

“Have your bosses shown any change in how they act? Spending more? After-hours meetings? That sort of thing.”

“Mr. Bigsby has been acting odd for a few months now. He’s definitely spending more money, but Mr. Sessions rarely works these days. He’s getting ready to retire and only takes care of his current clients,” she said.

“Have you noticed that Bigsby has new clients that aren’t his normal type of clients?” he asked.

“He normally has me leave early on Fridays. I’ve thought he probably was meeting with someone after I left, but I’ve never been able to confirm that.

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