Breakaway by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: anthologies
Goodreads: 20805592
Publisher: Bolero Books, LLC
Published: 2014-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

"I need to talk to you alone," Finlay said to me.

"He doesn't have any secrets from me," Rory said.

Given how long she'd spent with my computer, that was probably true.

"Rory, go outside and investigate his car or something."

Connor Finlay actually looked alarmed for a moment there.

"This guy knew my brother. He and I have stuff to discuss."

I'd never mentioned Sean to Rory, but I had no doubt she knew about his death. She knew everything else, and there were plenty of pictures of my brother on my computer. She gave me a long look, then nodded. Scowling at Finlay, she put on her jacket and boots and left by the front door.

He looked at me. He was holding a plastic water bottle in his hands—the same one, I think, that Rory had drunk from—and juggling it back and forth. "Where did you find her?"

"Long story."

"Given that your girlfriends have a tendency to go missing—"

"Fuck you, Finlay. Say what you came to say and get out."

"Take it easy. I'll deny I ever said this, and the little I know will disappear forever if you ever say a word about what I'm about to tell you."

"How the fuck do you know anything at all?"

"Because, like your smartass friend out there, I've been poking around in your ex's case."

My ex. Funny, but I'd never thought of Hadley that way. We'd never broken up, after all. She was just gone.

"Why? What's it got to do with you?" A sudden suspicion assailed me. I'd been fairly sure that Hadley was being honest with me about her other hookups. She had never mentioned Finlay, but his rough treatment of Rory made me suspicious. Hadley would have been excited by that sort of thing. "Was she seeing you?" Unconsciously I stepped into his space, and we were nose to nose again. Finlay was anvil tough and he'd already proved that I probably couldn't take him, but I didn't care. He didn't back down, but he didn't up the ante any, either.

"No. I never even met the girl. I was investigating something entirely different when I got a whiff of something rotten. I could be wrong. I need more time to figure this thing out."

"Who do you work for, exactly?" I'd realized I had no notion where this guy's loyalties were likely to be. Like me, he came from the poor side of town, but I'd heard that he hung out a lot with Alec Cranmore.

I hadn't admitted it to Rory last night, but to me, guys like Cranmore were the enemy. Spoiled rich dudes. It wasn't as if Cranmore had made every penny of his wealth on his own; he'd been born into it. I wasn't too impressed with someone who made his first billion in his twenties after he'd inherited hundreds of millions when his daddy had frozen to death on a windblown Himalayan cliff.

"I have my own firm," Finley said. "I take care of computer security for a wide range of clients."

"Including Cranmore, right?"

"Including all Alec's enterprises, yeah.

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