Dear Stranger (Paper Cuts #3) by Winter Renshaw

Author:Winter Renshaw [Renshaw, Winter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

24

Friday afternoon, something happens that never has before.

Tenley Bayliss knocks on my office door with a giant smile on her face. “Guess what?”

I’ve been smiling all day, as has most of the office, simply because it’s the start of the weekend. But knowing how dedicated Bayliss is to the job, the rest of the office’s Friday is her Monday. So I’m at a loss. Unless… “Something came through on the case?”

She nods. “Sandra thinks she found something.”

That is worthy of a smile. “I thought it was going to take months.”

“Apparently, it’s something pretty big too. I just got the file. It’s in the conference room. You want to have a look with me?”

I’d been dragging, counting down the minutes to quitting time. This changes things. “Absolutely.” Instantly, I spring up and follow her down the hall.

She shows me the files. Apparently, all the way back to when they were first married, there were quite a few personal transactions attributed to the restaurant and a number of huge withdrawals totaling over one million dollars that were moved out of the restaurant and sent overseas. It definitely smacks of something illicit.

“You think he knew he wanted to leave her, and so he was shielding his assets from her? Even years ago?” I ask her.

“That’s what it looks like,” she says with a shrug.

It might be Friday, but this is too good to wait the weekend on. This time when we decide to stay late and work on the case, I’m actually okay with it.

Of course, Tenley is, too. But it’s different. She’s lit up. Excited. Exhilarated. She’s driven, focused, concentrating so hard on the files in front of her, she barely looks at me. She’s also wearing these thick, nerd glasses with round frames.

And it’s as sexy as hell.

She once called me a distraction, but now I’m the distracted one. There’s an electricity in the air, and most of the time, all I can do is sit back and watch her work. Every time she looks up, I expect her to say something snide, like, Are you going to help? Instead, she bites her lower lip, which I think might be the hottest thing I’ve ever seen.

If this were one of my fantasies, she’d get up on the table, rip that clip from her hair and the glasses from her face, and cat-crawl over to me with a wicked look in her eyes.

After a few hours, sometime after midnight, she closes the folder and taps it with her pen. “That’s it. I think we’ve got him.”

I’m not sure. Not because I don’t believe in Tenley; actually, quite the opposite. I’ve just been so mesmerized by her that I couldn’t even tell you what was in those files. “I trust you.”

“You do?”

I shrug. “Sure.”

She pulls her glasses off and sighs, and that fantasy of mine edges a bit into reality. She just needs to take out that clip, shake her hair a bit…

It makes me think of my sweet Stranger. I have to wonder why she thought I would care what she looked like.

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