Choosing Rachel: A Second Chance Romance by M.B. Smith

Author:M.B. Smith [Smith, M.B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Two hours later, Rachel opens the door to the office I’ve been waiting in since everyone left an hour ago. Just like I predicted, she’s wearing a matching set of silk pajamas, and bright pink fuzzy socks that Lyla gave her for Mother’s Day. She also carries two cups—one a mug with a tea bag hanging from the side, and the other is my newly refilled whiskey glass.

I thank her as I take it. “Anything from the women?”

“As far as I can tell, they don’t know anything,” she says as she settles into the chaise. “At least, I’m sure that Ava and Emily don’t. They haven’t been around long enough that they’d be trusted with anything. Donna’s been with Briggs for over a decade, so she’s the only one who might be involved, but I doubt it.”

“Why?”

She weighs her head from side to side. “I don’t know, I just—I like her.”

I point to one of the pictures hanging on the timeline that still decorates the wall. “And I liked Nate until I had to put a bullet in his head. Liking someone isn’t an indication of whether they’re a traitor.”

She rolls her eyes and pulls her legs beneath her.

“I only spent a few hours with her. Most of it was listening to Ava, and Emily relay the most recent season of The Bachelor. So, excuse me if the brief conversations we had didn’t give me the impression she was a thief.”

It was a long shot, but we had to be thorough. The real test is for the capos, starting with how they reacted to the news that I didn’t find anything in my search. Unfortunately—but unsurprisingly—the reactions weren’t telling. For instance, Briggs hates that I took this project in the first place, so his indignation was expected. Harris looked pleased, but that could easily be because Briggs and I weren’t at each other’s throats, and Knox didn’t show a reaction at all—no big surprise there.

The second part of the test is starting any second now.

Like I’ve manifested it myself, the chime I’ve been waiting to hear finally sounds from the computer.

“Is that it?” Rachel asks, coming to stand at my side.

“One of them,” I say, and we look to where the screen confirms that one of the flash drives has been inserted and opened.

“What if they don’t look through it tonight?”

“They will,” I assure her. One thing all capos have in common is that we’re workaholics. Combine that with the urgency of finding where Mason got his funding from, and it’s guaranteed that each capo will go through the files as soon as they can.

“Can you see who opened it?”

“Knox,” I answer.

The next chime comes in, and we lean in closer to look.

“Harris.”

One more chime, that’s all we need.

“How do the flash drives show you this?”

“They have a virus on them. It’s minimally invasive, nothing they should be able to trace, but it’ll tell us when they’re accessing the files. The only aspect of the virus that’ll actually affect their

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