Finished by Claire Kent

Author:Claire Kent [Kent, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Goodreads: 23355716
Publisher: Noelle Adams
Published: 2014-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

Eight

“I don’t care if it’s not what you had in mind,” Julia said, raising her voice to make sure Mike knew she was serious. “If you’re going, I’m going.”

“It’s too dangerous,” Mike replied, looking more impatient than affected by her glaring insistence. They were both in the kitchen of their apartment, and Mike handed her a spatula so she could flip the quesadilla she was making before she even thought about needing one.

She paused to maneuver the quesadilla over carefully in the frying pan before she said, “If it’s so dangerous, why are you going?”

“I can take care of myself.” He stared into the refrigerator and eventually pulled out two bottles of beer. He opened one and gave it to her before he opened one for himself.

“That’s stupid. Just because you’re a man and you’re suffering from delusions of archaic machismo, it’s all right for you to break into a strange house but not me?”

He gave his head a quick shake and didn’t reply. She knew him well enough to know he was heartily displeased with her at the moment.

But this was too important for her to just let go, even though his obvious disapproval made her gut twist. “You’re an engineer, not a detective. You’re not any more trained for that kind of thing than I am.”

“I never said I was trained. Just that you aren’t going with me.”

“Damn it, Mike,” she growled, so annoyed she almost dropped the quesadilla as she slid it out of the pan. “You make me insane. Why exactly can’t I go with you?”

“Because I don’t want you to go.” His voice was low, slightly rough, but not at all out of control. As if he’d just made a perfectly reasonable point in an argument.

She sputtered at him for a minute, almost distracted from her cooling culinary success. When she recovered her ability to speak, she said, “I’m just as invested in this as you. And if it’s dangerous for me, then it’s dangerous for you too.”

“That doesn’t matter to me.”

“Well, it matters to me! And I’m sure as hell not going to let you go acting like some sort of cowboy by yourself and get yourself hurt.”

“So says the woman who snuck around that house in the dark, pretending to be a spy.” Before she could object to this exaggeration, he added, “Besides, I thought you didn’t think Drayton was a danger.”

“I don’t.” She cut the quesadilla into fourths, sawing at the tortillas with unnecessary violence. “But breaking into a house is breaking the law, and I don’t want you to do it alone.”

Last week, after Mike’s research, he had a hired a private investigator to look into Drayton. The P.I. had come up with pitiful little information thus far, but he had discovered that Drayton was actually the owner of the house Helen and Julia had found.

He’d never told them he owned a house. Just another secret he was keeping.

Mike had gotten it into his head that looking around the house would be the best way to find out what they needed to know about Drayton.

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