Targeted by Harris Lori L

Author:Harris, Lori L. [Harris, Lori L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-01-19T00:25:35+00:00

Chapter Nine

Alec turned on the desk lamp and sat down. Katie was in the other room painting, which gave him a few moments to look over what the investigator had couriered up from Miami.

Shadows remained tucked into the tall corners of the large room, but light poured onto the two manila envelopes he’d placed on his desk earlier, purposely leaving them until now.

He liked working at night. He found it easier to concentrate in the dense quiet. When he’d been with the FBI and had been called in by a local PD to provide a profile, he would sometimes take a copy of the case file, including photos, back to his hotel room. He’d put in a wake-up call for 3:00 a.m. Often the lost sleep paid off.

He slid out the jacketed report detailing Carlos’s background and his movements before he’d fallen out of sight.

Taking a sip of red wine, Alec lifted the front cover. The enclosed photos were fairly generic and showed Carlos entering the gallery, then eating lunch with another man, the man’s back to the camera, Carlos coming out of the grocery store. All normal activities. He was obviously of Hispanic descent, had the dark, good looks, the lean body. It wasn’t surprising that Katie had found him attractive.

He found his thoughts shifting to this morning and the look in Katie’s eyes when she’d believed Carlos had just walked into the restaurant. She’d been damned frightened. Was there something she hadn’t told him about Carlos?

He took another sip of wine. The report seemed fairly basic and showed Carlos as pretty much an average citizen—at least as far as Miami’s law enforcement was concerned. Just a few speeding and parking tickets and one assault charge three years ago shortly after he’d moved to Miami, the victim a male bar patron.

Before that move, Carlos had owned an art gallery in San Francisco where he hadn’t been such a model citizen. He’d collected battery charges on a fairly regular basis, the victims always women. He’d either had a good lawyer or managed to buy his way out of doing any jail time.

As in Miami, he’d managed to have it all. Successful gallery, house overlooking the bay and a well-known artist to support both. Evidently, Katie wasn’t the first woman Carlos had used.

Alec held up the photo of Carlos’s most recent digs. The shot, taken from the water side, featured a large yacht as well as a three-story modern house. The good life. Was that what Katie had been looking for?

Alec fiddled with the stem of the wineglass. He couldn’t seem to keep his mind on the report and off the woman.

Getting involved now was out of the question, and later might not be possible, either. He doubted Katie would stay in Deep Water. It wasn’t as if she had any ties to the town. He, on the other hand, was staying. The progress on rebuilding a relationship with his brother was slow going, but he was committed to mending the rift.

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