Keeping Eveline (Alliez Security Book 2) by Nicole Flockton

Author:Nicole Flockton [Flockton, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Eveline wanted to leave the room. She wanted to walk away and go somewhere where no one knew her and she didn’t have anyone after her.

Because that was her current unwanted reality. Not for one minute did she believe Randall Maxwell was the one responsible for her attack and the trashing of her apartment.

Neither did anyone in the room.

She’d been watching them as Kyle had given them a rundown and they might not have said it out loud, but it was plain they questioned the validity of the police’s reasoning.

Now the Ramirez Cartel or another Cartel could be involved and were using her as the bait to draw Gerald in?

“I don’t know.” Eveline shook her head and wished she hadn’t overheard that conversation. “Gerald walked away so I’m not sure what was said after that. If it is a cartel that’s got me in their sights, why? I’ve had nothing to do with them.”

“But you uncovered what Gerald and Triple Z were doing. It’s possible that some of the people employed to do the roughing up could have connections to a cartel and don’t want their people caught up in this. They want Gerald to take the fall, so they’re sending a message by hurting you.” This came from the one called Angel. His dark hair and close-cropped beard had him looking more like a model than a security specialist.

A warm hand landed on her shoulder and squeezed it. She didn’t need to look up to know Kyle standing behind her. The fine hairs on her arms were standing, and a warmth seeped into her veins from where his hand rested.

“We’ll get to the bottom of this. I’m pretty confident that the Ramirez Cartel isn’t involved along with any other one. But there’s a possibility that it could be a gang—which would make more sense to me. We need to look into every possibility and then tick them off the list.”

Were Kyle’s words supposed to comfort her?

They did a little, but not entirely. “What do you need me to do?” Eveline asked, hoping to steer the conversation in a different direction.

“What do you mean?” This came from Cass, the black-haired woman who peered at Eveline over her glasses.

“I mean, is there anything I can do to help you research? Look into the people who are on the list.”

“What about your job?” Kyle said. Unfortunately, he’d removed his hand from her shoulder and had returned to the head of the table. She wanted that comforting touch back.

Her job.

After everything that’d happened over the last week and suspecting that perhaps Gerald, or his business associates, were responsible for what’d happened to her, that was the last place she wanted to be.

Prior to everything, she’d been thinking about changing her jobs because of the atmosphere of Triple Z. Now was her chance to make that happen. It might take her a while to find another job, but Eveline had some savings and there could be fallout from her breaking her lease—because there was no way she was going back to her apartment.

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