Holiday Home: A Harem Fantasy (Book Three) by Jenna Albright

Author:Jenna Albright [Albright, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

The Informant

As December 28th rolled around, he had a place to be at noon. Today had kept hold of yesterday’s relative warmth, and some of the snow was finally beginning to melt. Not quickly enough that the neighborhood would look any different once he got back from his outing, though, but it was a start. He didn’t intend to be gone for long, not knowing what awaited him once he returned to the house beside his.

“We’ll have lunch, and then we can digest while we watch a movie. And then maybe I’ll do something for you we haven’t done yet, just so we can tick its box.”

Tess’s sultry whisper had urged haste upon him in a way neither whip nor fire could have. When he’d made it back to her late last night, she’d smiled and welcomed him with a warm hug. Still holding him in her arms, she’d asked one very simple question.

“How many times?”

And he’d answered truthfully. She hadn’t requested any further details. Instead, she’d grabbed his hand and taken him back to her bedroom, where they’d ensured that her lead over Avril remained at the same place it’d been when he’d left her home earlier that day.

She might have elongated her lead, but his exhaustion finally caught up to him at the end of their second round together. So, patting him softly, aware that he’d be all hers tomorrow, she’d let things sit at just two.

Her lead was destined to grow today; she just needed to wait a little longer.

Driving quicker than he should have, he made it to Mercer’s Gentleman Shoppe a handful of minutes before midday. On his last visit, he’d let Anna take charge as she helped him find a suitable outfit for Avril’s approaching New Year’s Eve party. At her stubborn behest, citing a considerable family discount she could use, he’d allowed her to get it for him as a gift. It ought to be ready for him; he just needed one final fitting to ensure the quality was up to the tailor’s standards before taking it home.

The tailor he saw standing on the other side of the whitewashed building’s massive windows was the same one he’d encountered the other day. As Liam entered the store, passing under the golden imprinted letters naming the store and its year of creation, 1874, the man glanced in his direction.

Liam knew someone had tipped Trent off about his and Anna’s plans to go ice skating the other day, and there were only two viable suspects. One had been another customer who’d arrived a little after him and Anna. A friend of the family or a work associate with her father, he and Anna had briefly chatted. Afterward, he’d been close enough to eavesdrop on him and Anna as they made their ice-skating plans.

But then, so had been the man who now smiled politely as Liam entered the store.

The middle-aged tailor waited for Liam rather than coming to meet him midway. He was neatly dressed, reedy, and had a pencil mustache.

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