Kiss the Witch Goodbye: A Nick Gibson Novel by Lisa Olsen

Author:Lisa Olsen [Olsen, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-17T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

She’d asked him to try her again later, but Nick decided to go down to Argent Flame and talk to Annaliese in person instead of trading texts. Rather than going in the front door, he parked behind her car and went to the kitchen door in the back. Finding the key under the mat, he used it to let himself in and contemplated not replacing it. How many times had he warned her about leaving a key outside for anyone to find?

He was still debating it when he found Jax May sitting at her kitchen table, working his way through a monster sized sandwich.

“Hey,” Jax greeted him with an easy grin, and Nick did his best to return it. It had to be a good sign that the guy could face him with a smile. Surely if he’d tried to put the moves on Annaliese the night before, he’d have the common decency to avoid his gaze, wouldn’t he? Or was it a smile of triumph?

Deciding he was reading too much into it, Nick pushed those doubts away, using the opportunity to ask Jax a few follow up questions. “Hey. I’m glad you’re here. Listen, I was wondering, why did you dismiss the security guys that night instead of them accompanying you to back to the hotel?”

“I didn’t.” The denial sprang quickly to his lips and Nick couldn’t help but wonder why he’d bother.

“They both said you did.”

Jax fixed him with a stony stare. “Maybe I did,” he allowed at last. “I don’t remember. I was headed straight for the hotel, it wasn’t that big of a deal.”

“Still, that’s what you hire them for, to protect you, right? It seems strange you’d let them go before you were tucked in for the night.”

“They don’t always stick around all night and it was getting late. Anyway I’m not supposed to answer any other questions without my lawyer present.”

That was an interesting development. “No? What happened to not needing a lawyer because you didn’t do anything wrong?”

“Gideon insisted,” he shrugged. “So yeah, any more questions should probably go through him. Gideon has his number and stuff if you need it.”

Nick found it strange that the man hadn’t even bothered to get the contact information for his own lawyer, but promptly forgot to care when Annaliese wandered into the room, stopping short once she caught sight of him. “Hey,” he said with a tentative smile.

“Hey,” she replied, an awkward silence stretching between them.

“I’d better get back upstairs before anyone sees me,” Jax said, picking up his sandwich plate and heading for the stairs. “This sandwich rocks, Apples,” he added, stopping to wink at Annaliese. “Nice to see you again, Nick.”

“Likewise.”

The silence descended again, with nothing but the shop’s sound system playing a movie soundtrack he couldn’t place.

“Listen, about last night,” he started to say, but she cut him off.

“It’s alright, Nick. You don’t owe me anything.”

“But I wanted to…”

“Look, it’s fine,” she insisted somewhat louder, and Nick zipped his lip. “I did want to talk to you though.

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