Covet by Abbi Cook

Author:Abbi Cook [Cook, Abbi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Vine Media LLC

Chapter Fourteen

Alexei

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After giving Samson the day off, I follow Natalie to where he told me her sister lives in Georgetown. To my surprise, I see she didn’t get a new tire so she doesn’t have to drive around on a donut. I wonder if that husband of hers doesn’t care if she gets into an accident and that’s what kills her, or if possibly she didn’t tell him about her flat tire.

Glancing up at the rearview mirror as I wait for the red light to change, I smile at my reflection. “Is she keeping secrets from him? Interesting. But why?”

I’m happy when she takes the car to a shop nearby and drops it off before walking the few blocks to her sister’s house. That Adam Anchoff wouldn’t care how she died irritates me. A car crash is so fucking messy. He’d probably be fine with her getting offed that way, though.

Jackass.

A little more than an hour later, she walks out into the sun looking fresh and sweet. And an easy target.

I walk behind her for nearly a block before I make my move. Catching up with her, I say, “Please tell me you didn’t have another flat tire and didn’t call me.”

Natalie turns to look at me, and I see fear in her eyes. I’m so used to people being frightened by me in those last moments of life that it doesn’t register for a moment that I’ve startled her.

Attempting to calm her, I give her a warm smile. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you. So much for chivalry, right?”

For a few seconds, I’m not sure she won’t run away, but then her nature takes over and she can’t help but be polite. “Oh, Alexei. You did scare me there. I’m sorry if I was rude for a moment. I just didn’t expect to see you here right now.”

“It’s almost as if fate keeps throwing us together,” I say, knowing how much people love that fate shit. Like there’s an invisible hand guiding any of this we’re all going through.

“It is, isn’t it?”

Swiveling my head left and right, I pretend to look for her car. “Did you get stranded by another flat tire?”

“No,” she says, waving off that possibility before pointing down the road toward the shop where her car sits waiting for her. “I decided to have it repaired at a tire store down the road since I knew I was coming to see my sister. She lives in the red brick house on the corner back there.”

It’s amazing no one has ever taken advantage of Natalie before with how easily she offers information. I’m still nothing but a perfect stranger to her, yet she so willingly gives me details about her life a stranger shouldn’t have.

“I’ll walk with you there then.”

She accepts my offer with not a second thought, that trusting nature of hers sure I’m just being a gentleman. “Okay, thank you. So what are you doing in Georgetown? Do you work here?”

My dark grey business suit makes that question a logical one, of course.

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