Never Tell a Lie by Lexy Timms

Author:Lexy Timms [Timms, Lexy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Published: 2017-11-30T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“What’s that?” Dane looked over her shoulder at the threatening note, anger already simmering inside him. “What the hell!”

His wife’s face had paled, and she rushed over to the sitting area to sit down. “I…I don’t know. It was on the floor. Do you think it’s a joke?”

He shook his head.

“Who could have written something like this?”

He headed over to the mini bar and poured out two glasses of scotch. When he walked over to the sitting area, he handed Allyson a glass and motioned for her to drink.

She emptied the glass of scotch so quickly he doubted she needed any prompting. “This is a nightmare,” she gasped out. She looked near tears, or like she was hitting a breaking point. It drove Dane mad; his wife had always been someone in control when he worked as his assistant. The past months had been too much. And now this… what were they going to do?

“I’ll call security,” he said, taking a seat across from her. He reached for his phone, got the hotel’s security chief on the line, and explained the situation.

“I’m looking through security footage from today, Mr. Prescott, and I’m not seeing anything out of the ordinary,” the security chief said. “I see your father and your lawyer heading inside with an assistant. Then I see them coming outside with you and your wife a few minutes later.”

Dane narrowed his eyes. “And that’s all?”

“Well, there’s the cleaning staff as well. Shall I investigate this further with your room’s maid, sir?” the security officer asked.

“You think the cleaning staff is capable of leaving a note like this?” Dane asked. “Could they have been paid by someone to drop off the note?” Allyson’s hands shot up and she shook her head forcefully. “No, Dane. I don’t want to get anyone on the cleaning staff in trouble. Let’s just leave it alone. Whoever it was, it wouldn’t be them.”

He hated the idea of someone threatening them, but his wife would never forgive him if someone on staff lost their job. “Please just ask. If someone looks suspicious or guilty, please let us know. Otherwise, leave it. We’ll figure this out. It’s probably just a mistake anyway.” Dane hung up and focused his attention back on Allyson.

“It’s probably nothing,” she said. Despite her words, she looked shaken.

“It doesn’t sound like nothing.”

She blew out a ragged breath. “It must be a prank. We’re around the right kind of people who would do something like this.”

“This sounds like the kind of petty, vindictive stunt Katherine Handel would make,” he muttered.

“That would explain why Nicholas was so ready to invite us to his apartment.” She rubbed her temples. “Katherine and Nicholas are probably toying with us by trying to scare us with the note. It wouldn’t surprise me if they invited us over just to see our reaction.”

He frowned. “But how could they have gotten the note into the room?”

“You know Katherine,” she said. “She knew we were coming to her office today; she could have easily paid one of the maids to slip the note inside while we were out.

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