Indiscreet Ladies of Green Ivy Way by Kress Alyssa

Author:Kress, Alyssa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, suspense, adventure, action, romantic, contemporary, humorous, heartwarming, fulllength
Publisher: Alyssa Kress

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

"I — But what is it doing here?" Olivia asked, sitting on the window seat in her pretty silk robe and looking more and more confused.

Gideon knew exactly what the flash drive was doing there, in the houseplant Anja had given Olivia. It was another one of her damned clues. Perhaps even the last, and most significant, one. He had to think quickly. He needed to get the flash drive away from Olivia, and he needed to do it without alerting her that anything deep was going on.

"Perhaps it fell in there," Gideon tried, "when she was potting the plant."

"I don't know much about potting plants." Olivia opened the ziploc and removed the flash drive. "But I don't think it got in there by accident."

Gideon shrugged. He was getting hot beneath his shirt as he mentally scrambled for a way out of this. "I could take it to the office, pop it in one of my machines and see what's on it if you like."

He died a thousand deaths as he waited for her to think about this plan. She did so with great care, turning the flash drive over and over in her hands. "That would be all right," she said at last, "as long as I could come with you and see for myself." She halted, and folded the flash drive completely in one fist. "I've been worried about Anja."

"You have?" Gideon hoped like hell he sounded innocently ignorant. "Why?"

"I haven't heard from her in nearly a week," Olivia told him. "She changed her phone number and hasn't told me what it is and also hasn't answered any of my recent emails."

Privately, Gideon boggled. Olivia had heard from Anja less than a week ago? Anja had been in touch with his wife? He didn't know if he was more enraged by this piece of information, or riddled with guilt. Anja dared involve his wife in this escapade by calling her on the phone?

On the other hand, he should have bugged Olivia's telephone. Whether she was his wife or not, he should have been ready to intercept and trace Olivia's phone calls — with Anja!

Still — all wasn't lost. He now knew Anja must have left of her own free will since she was making phone calls to her friends. But it had been almost a week since that phone call. Was Anja still free, uncompromised?

Hollister was on her trail, and there were others, people far more dangerous than the pharmaceutical man. All of them would salivate over the chance to get their hands on Anja's vector. Had anything happened to her during the past week?

His gaze went back to the flash drive. "No problem," he told Olivia. "You can come into the office with me tomorrow morning." He'd alert staff to the get the 'front' office ready. "We can see what's on your neighbor's flash drive together." Showing Olivia what was on the flash drive would be all right since she wouldn't understand what she was seeing. Then Gideon could switch the flash drive with a mate to it before handing it back to her.

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