Protecting Clover by Jen Talty

Author:Jen Talty [Talty, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2019-11-12T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

“I want to take a swim.” Clover stood in the doorway of her office wearing a bikini and a mesh cover-up, doing her best to look sexy, but she wasn’t sure she’d pulled it off.

Wyatt glanced up over her laptop and coughed. “That doesn’t leave anything to the imagination.”

Ever since they left the Sans, Wyatt had been abnormally quiet. He’d barely said five words the entire ride home and only managed to grunt a few more once inside.

Deep down, she knew he wasn’t serious about washing her hair in the tub, much less taking her to bed. He’d been overprotective with her before when she’d been a teenager, so why would he be any different now that she was an adult?

“Am I allowed to go for a swim?”

“As long as I’m with you.” His fingers pounded the keyboard before he shut it closed. “Let’s go.”

She let out a puff of air. “Do we have any news about anything?” On the way past the linen closet, she snagged a couple of towels. Not once did she glance over her shoulder, but she didn’t have to. She could feel his hot breath on the back of her neck as he followed so close she thought he might climb right up inside her.

“I’ve got some information, both good and bad,” he said, pulling open the sliding door. “There is no way to prove the image is a fake from the printed version we have, other than you discussing your body. But, given the case history, the cops in Nashville will be questioning Conrad. They are working on getting a search warrant for his computer and any digital hard drives he might have.”

“That’s progress.” She tossed her cover-up over a chair. Standing at the edge of the pool, she dipped her toe into the refreshing water. Bending her knees, she pushed off the side and dove in. Warmth coated her skin. She turned and kicked toward the surface. “What else?” she asked, swimming to the side, resting her arms on the concrete.

Wyatt sat with his legs dangling in the pool, kicking them gently back and forth. He reached out and brushed her wet hair over her shoulder. “Tex found out that Conrad has had three women file restraining orders against him over the last six years. All for stalking. One woman told the police that he broke into her house and cut up her collection of stuffed animals.”

“That’s crazy.”

Wyatt nodded. “Everything points to him, and we know he’s in Nashville.” He kept his gaze on the water as he swirled it around with his feet. “But one thing doesn’t add up in my book.”

“What’s that?”

“Dave picked up the woman that dropped off the box. She was paid a few grand by a woman to deliver the package.”

“What woman? The waitress I fired?”

“That, we don’t know yet, but how would the waitress and Conrad be connected?”

“Conrad knew her pretty well. She flirted with him like crazy, but she flirted with all the customers to get good tips.

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