Detective on Call by Regan Black

Author:Regan Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-06-08T17:59:45+00:00

Chapter 8

Pippa opened the new laptop and followed the directions provided by CI’s resident tech expert, Ashanti Silver. She’d created a step-by-step list so Pippa could find her way to the Capital X site and loan application portal on the dark web.

Emmanuel was hovering, as promised. It wasn’t easy to ignore him, and she wasn’t even sure she wanted to try. The sizzle she felt when he was close was addictive. If she was reading the signals correctly, he felt something more than a passing cooperative interest.

Not that they could do a thing about it when she was neck deep in two cases, one of which he was far too entangled with.

“Wow, that’s not what I expected at all,” he said.

He was leaning close enough that she could smell the crisp scent of his cologne. He must have gone home at some point during the day, because the fragrance had been faint this morning and was much fresher now. She had no business being tempted or enticed by that smell.

“It looks as slick and clean as any other legitimate bank.”

“Which is probably why they get away with what they’re doing,” she pointed out. She scrolled through the site, taking a look at products and account options. “If I didn’t know how they operated, I’d think this was a great answer for a loan, especially to get a business off the ground.”

“You’re smart enough that you’d come to your senses when you saw the terms,” he said.

His compliment warmed her. “True.” She sat back, staring at the screen and giving herself some needed distance. From the man more than the assignment.

“Second thoughts?”

“A few,” she admitted. And all of them were about him. She really hadn’t expected to like Emmanuel after what he’d said in court, and she didn’t know quite how to proceed since he’d shown himself to be a person of high integrity. “It’s hard to imagine a person being so underinformed or so desperate that they’d agree to such exorbitant interest rates,” she said.

“Not to mention the repayment schedule.” Emmanuel stood up and pushed a hand through his wavy hair. She thought he could probably use a trim, then decided that was something Anna Wentworth would say. Pippa found him ridiculously attractive just as he was. The hairstyle wouldn’t make any difference. She really needed to find a boyfriend or dive back in to the dating-app scene.

She shivered. During her last attempt, she’d lost patience with the whole messy system. She didn’t mind casual hookups, but at this point in her life she was looking for something different. Something more substantial. The men those apps wanted to match her with didn’t meet that criteria. Even when she changed her preferences, looking for someone a little older, she’d never been matched with anyone half as intriguing as Emmanuel.

Sliding away from her dangerous thoughts, she focused on the task at hand. There were big buttons on the loan screen for preset loan amounts. She chose the $25K button, the amount Kiely had determined her alias needed and would easily qualify for.

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