Nico (The Mavericks Book 8) by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, romance
ISBN: 9781773362939
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-06-29T18:30:00+00:00

“It won’t help you,” Charlotte said in exasperation. “Absolutely none of those people would have put bugs in my house.”

“Maybe not,” Nico said, “but somebody close to them might have.”

That stopped her in her tracks.

He glanced over at her and smiled. “You going to crash?” But he could see the restless energy eating away at her. She was tired, restless, and needed something to do that she could jump into. “Why don’t you make some coffee,” he suggested. “For us. I still don’t think you need any caffeine.”

Her quick frown in his direction made his grin widen.

“No, you don’t have to feed us and give us coffee,” he said, “but we do work better that way.’

She raised both hands in frustration, stormed over to the counter, and readied the coffeepot to brew, as he returned to his work.

Nico was much more concerned about this assistant of hers, this Maggie. The fact that Charlotte’s previous assistant had died in a hit-and-run was suspicious as hell. It also had opened up a vacancy. This Maggie person was conveniently on hand to fill it. Yet it could be just luck and timing, if she’d truly needed a job.

“What’s her address?” he called out. Charlotte didn’t even pretend to not know who he was talking about. She spouted it off, and he realized it was just a few blocks away. “So does she walk to work?”

“Usually, yes,” she said. “Lots of times she works from home and then comes here for meetings—or sometimes she comes here, and we do a bunch of work for the afternoon. Then she picks up stuff that she can take home again and returns there.” Charlotte walked to the table and pulled out a chair and flopped down beside him. “It’s an arrangement that works out really well for both of us.”

“I can’t imagine having an assistant in my house,” Keane said.

“I wasn’t a big fan of it at first,” she said. “It works much better this way, when she’s here for part of the time and then back at her place for the rest of the time. I still want privacy and peace just to be alone.”

“There is something very odd about having another person in your space, when it’s not a spouse or family member,” Nico said.

“Not really. Plus, it’s work,” she said with a laugh. “And I’m trying to do my own writing, and it’s hard to do that if she’s here, interrupting me every five minutes.”

“Do you need an assistant?”

“If I reduce a lot of my overseas visits and attending rallies and being a speaker,” she said, “I would need much less help.”

“And would that bother her?” Keane asked.

She looked at him in surprise. “I don’t know. I never thought about it.”

“Well, maybe you should though,” he said in exasperation. “What you’re saying now is that you’re contemplating removing this person’s way of making a living.”

She stared at him. “So now I have to be responsible for her life too?”

Keane shrugged. “No, but, if you

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