Black & White & Dead All Over: A Lost Hat, Texas, Mystery (The Lost Hat, Texas, Mystery Series Book 1) by Anna Castle

Author:Anna Castle [Castle, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anna Castle
Published: 2015-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Greg frowned sternly as I waltzed into his office. He shook his finger at me. “You failed to meet my deadline, Penny. I thought we were clear about the rules.”

“Did my best, boss.” I spread my hands wide in a mock-apology. “I’m still working on it, actually. Tillie’s helping.”

A wary look stole across his face. “Really? Did you tell her why you’re doing it?”

“Not in so many words. She’s a helpful gal.”

“Hmm.” He watched me walk in and plant my butt in the client-slash-victim chair. I sat up straight with my hands in my lap, trying to pretend to be all humble and worried. I evidently failed miserably, because his eyes narrowed and his pouchy lips pursed. “You seem awfully chipper today.”

“I feel chipper. My first social event in Lost Hat was a great success. And I got to see my boyfriend: always a happy occasion.”

“I noticed him at the wake. Did you tell him about your photos?” He seemed to brace himself a little for my response.

“He was only here for eleven hours, Greg. This may astonish you, but we actually did not spend all of our time talking about you.” Which was true. Not an answer to his question, but true as a matter of fact.

He smiled, a tight little smirk of satisfaction. “I didn’t think you would dare.”

“The thing is, Greg, if I did tell him — or, I should say, when — you are going to be in such deep shit.”

“You’re the one that’ll be in the shit. In my observation, people get pretty angry about things like betrayal of trust and thoughtless, reckless—”

“Thoughtless, reckless, yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. And you’re right: Ty would probably be pretty mad at me. But if you put that picture out there on the web, guess who else he’d be mad at?”

Greg’s Adam’s apple jogged up and down. His eyes turned hard and piggy behind the glint of his glasses.

I chuckled as I watched him work it through. “You didn’t think about that, did you? You aren’t just messing with me. You’re messing with Tyler Hawkins, the rich, respected, high-tech security mogul. Didn’t it occur to you that he might, oh, I don’t know, hunt down the source of that mangled photograph, figure out how I got into this fix in the first place, and do something about it? You got a tiger by the tail here, Greg.”

Panic flashed in his eyes. He slumped back in his chair as the tip of his tongue emerged and started working his lower lip. His eyes darted nervously around the room. I could practically see smoke spiraling out of his ears as his brain went into overdrive, cranking over his shrinking options. I worried that I’d gone too far. Bad Penny! Never able to resist poking that bear. But what could he do? The proof of his crimes was scattered all over town, on all the hard drives and smartphones of all the people he’d been abusing. He couldn’t scrub every piece of computing equipment clean before Ty found enough evidence to charge him.

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