Boss Man by Crowne K.C

Author:Crowne, K.C.
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Nick

I hung up the phone and scrubbed my hands over my face. I was frustrated more than I could say, and I didn’t know what to do. I felt like I had hit another dead end, and I was getting more pissed off as each day passed.

Things had taken such a turn, and I didn’t feel like we were any closer to catching this guy than we had been from the first day he called me. I had recently changed my number after getting too many calls to keep up with, and I knew I was going to have to tell Liz about it soon.

They were all much the same. He would call me and tell me something threatening, telling me that he knew what Liz was doing, asking how she liked the flowers or telling me it would be a bad idea to let her out of my sight.

Each call I received was a little more threatening than the last, and I wasn’t sure what I could do about it. There was a part of me that wanted to go to the cops, but I knew that they really couldn’t do anything about threatening phone calls. They’d tell me to change my number, which I did, and that they could only do something if there were an attack or physical threat.

I felt impotent. I also thought about going to the investors and asking them to let me out of the deal. If I could explain to them what was going on, maybe they would back off, and Liz and I could schedule a breakup in the press, and she would be free to live anonymously again.

But I knew that wouldn’t work either. If they found out the threat stemmed from an incident with Liz at a bar out without me, they would call it her screw up, and I’d be fried. They were old men, still accustomed to blaming the length of a woman’s skirt for the bad behavior of the male species. And, I was pretty sure they were hoping I’d fail so they could cut and run. No, I had to figure this out myself.

I hired a PI, and he was on the case. But he wasn’t able to trace any of the calls. Whoever it was on the other end of the line clearly knew what they were doing, and they knew how to stay hidden while still antagonizing me from afar. I was going to lose my shit if we didn’t make some headway soon.

When my phone rang again, I answered, relieved to know it was him and not another threat.

“How is it going?” I asked. “Any leads?”

“I’m working on that like I told you,” he said. “Any more phone calls.”

“Not since I changed my number. Figured since you couldn’t trace them on my old line anyway, what the hell, might as well switch it up,” I said, not trying to hide the irritation in my tone.

“You know I’m throwing everything I got at this, Nick,” he said.

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