Forever by Deveraux Jude

Author:Deveraux, Jude [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Chick-Lit, Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780739429129
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2002-09-29T23:00:00+00:00

When Darci awoke at five A.M. the next morning, there was a light coming in through the half-open bedroom door. Was Adam already awake? she wondered. Turning, she looked at his bed and saw that it had never been slept in.

Rolling out of bed, she went into the living room, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. The curtains were still drawn, and Adam was still bent over his laptop computer, studying the screen.

“Did you know that it’s morning?” she asked, yawning as she sat down beside him.

Adam didn’t answer, but nodded toward a pile of papers on the coffee table. There was now a small printer on the coffee table, and it was attached to Adam’s laptop by a heavy cable.

“Where’d you get that?” she asked.

“Borrowed from 3B,” he said without looking up. “Read the papers.”

Yawning again, Darci picked them up.

At first she didn’t know what she was looking at, as there were just lists of names and addresses. At the top of the first page was the name Taylor Raeburne, and at the bottom was the name of a company with the word spy in it. The title page was followed by sheets and sheets of information about people.

It was when she realized what she was seeing that she sat upright and began to read with interest. Adam had done a search on Taylor Raeburne, using the data from the Web site, and Darci was shocked to see how much information had been obtained. Mr. Raeburne’s places of residence for the last twenty years were on the papers. His neighbors were listed, giving their addresses, their telephone numbers, and their occupations. There were three pages of people who “might possibly be related to or involved with Taylor Raeburne.”

After the pages of addresses, her mouth dropped open further to see pages about the financial status of Taylor Raeburne.

Appalled, Darci put the papers back on the coffee table, leaving the last several pages unread. “That is an invasion of privacy,” she said.

“There is no longer any privacy in the U.S.,” Adam said, still not looking up from the screen. “All I had to do was give them my credit card number, wait six hours, and all that was e-mailed to me.”

“I don’t like that,” Darci said tightly. “A person’s business should be his own.”

“You didn’t seem to mind looking into my private affairs,” Adam said. “So do you want to know about your father or not?”

“My . . ?” Darci said, not yet awake enough to have thought of this new idea.

“Yes, your—” Adam broke off because he had finally turned to look at her. “I told you not to wear that black thing. I told you—”

She had on a very pretty black silk nightgown that she’d bought when she purchased the other clothes. It was a perfectly respectable nightgown and tiny robe, merely a spaghetti-strapped sliplike garment with a sheer lace jacket that covered her arms. It wasn’t short or too revealing or—

Raising his arm, Adam pointed toward the doorway.

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