Entangled by Carmen Green

Author:Carmen Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Renee had no trouble making an appointment to meet with Bill Reynolds the following morning. They’d paid through the nose for round-trip tickets from Birmingham to Los Angeles, scheduled to depart the following morning. From the scant information he’d been able to find, Reynolds seemed to be your typical, middle-class employee. He had one speeding ticket last year and no criminal record.

Without Reynolds’s bank records, Chris had no way of knowing what he did with the money. If this were a case, he would have gotten that information.

The amount of information Renee had gathered had him shaking his head in wonder. Most of the information was a matter of public record, but the average person wouldn’t know where to find it.

“How did you learn to do all this?” he asked when the information just kept coming.

“I worked as an intern for an information brokerage firm. The company did everything from running background checks on potential employees to competitive analysis. My mentor was one of the best in the company. I almost accepted a position there when I finished library school, but I decided to get my Ph.D. instead.”

“So, that’s how you found all the information on Marc.” He smiled. If she were with the bureau, she’d be hell on wheels and he’d probably have to fight off agents left and right to get to her. She fascinated him.

She gave him a puzzled look. “I told you that yesterday.” At that moment her computer beeped. “Alex sent me an e-mail,” she said, then gasped in disbelief.

“What?”

“Look at this.” She turned the laptop around. “She used a purple font and it’s from her work e-mail account,” she said, stunned.

Chris didn’t know what amused him more: the girly-girl purple font Alex used in her e-mail or Renee’s shocked reaction. “Her family does own the company,” he offered.

She looked at him as if he’d lost his mind. “A family-owned business is still a business. Who’s going to take her seriously if she sends e-mails that look like this?”

“Maybe she doesn’t want to be taken seriously.” Alex had been called the black Paris Hilton for her party-girl lifestyle.

“Oh, trust me. She wants to be taken seriously.” Renee picked up her cell phone and seconds later had Alex on the line.

While Renee talked to Alex about correct business correspondence, he read the e-mail message. Alex knew nothing about the necklace, but would ask a friend of a friend who was really into estate jewelry if she’d seen a necklace like that lately.

He doubted her friend of a friend would have seen the necklace. Most of Alex’s crowd was constantly in celebrity magazines. It would not be good for them to be photographed wearing stolen jewelry. For the past year, Alex had kept a low profile, no doubt due to Marc’s influence. He’d learned how to dodge the press from Danielle.

He watched her pace from one end of the office to the next. She seemed to know a lot about Alex’s company. “Alex, stop second-guessing yourself.” Renee put her hand on her hip.

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