Triple Protection: A Why Choose Bodyguard Romance by Christina Sterling

Author:Christina Sterling [Sterling, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christina Sterling
Published: 2024-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter twenty-nine

Alex

Alex

I'm pissed.

Mirium texted me, asking for an update on our progress in tracking down the stalker. I'm not pissed about that. I'm pissed that I don't have a better answer for her. We've made next to no progress on that front, and I hate it. The frustration rolls through me like a fever.

We've been living with Angela for months. I have to admit; I like her a lot more than I thought I would. I trust her, I admire her, and I could easily see this 'like' turning into 'love'. Which makes the fact that there's still a threat out there even more frustrating. Someone wants my woman. Mine.

We need to find this fucker now and end him.

"What have you got?" I ask Liam. Angela's in her office working and Brick, Liam and I are downstairs in the living room. We try to avoid talking about the situation around her. After her panic attack and my ill-timed confession about the VR deepfake, I'm making an effort to be more thoughtful about her emotions. It's a weird feeling.

"So, I have what I consider our top suspects." Liam offers, setting papers on the coffee table in front of us.

"We've run background checks on Marshal, Carlita and Jose and their immediate families and nothing popped, so I started looking at the accounts that DM and comment on her post most frequently and then thought about rival influencers. When I did my research on stalkers, one of the things that stood out to me is the need for control. Maybe a rival influencer hates that he can't control her." He rubs the back of his neck, unsure. "I mean, maybe. I don't know."

"No. That's a good idea. Let's cast a wide net first and then rule people out."

He gives me a tight nod in thanks.

"I called in a favor with my buddy at the NSA. They've got big data computers that searched through her comments and identified the accounts that posted lewd comments the most over the last year," he continues, separating out some of the papers into piles.

"Then these are her male competing influencers. The thing I don't like about this angle is that they'll all be at DigiCon." Shit, he's right. But Angela insists on going. It's an award ceremony she's been working towards for years.

"Even if we don't like the angle, we need to pursue it." I say.

"So how do we rule people out?" Brick asks. Fuck, that's a really good question.

"Let's run background checks on everyone. See if any of them have prior records of stalking behavior. Maybe she's not the first one. Then let's rank them as most to least likely. If, say, they're married with kids, I think they're less likely to be a stalker. Or if they're gay, etc. Or anyone who lives far enough away. I doubt someone would fly in from New York to break into her bedroom, only to fly home again."

Liam and Brick nod in agreement. It's not the breakthrough that we need, but at least it'll give them something to work on in the meantime.

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