Protecting Rebel (Red Stone Security Series Book 21) by Katie Reus

Author:Katie Reus [Reus, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KR Press, LLC
Published: 2023-08-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Weston stood with Juan by the food and drinks table as Rebel sat across from yet another interviewer. This one was a local blogger and it was clear that Rebel knew and liked the woman asking her questions.

“She actually likes this one,” Juan murmured next to him. “She’s so nice to everyone but her smiles change slightly with people she doesn’t care for.”

“Yeah.” He’d picked up on that too, but he’d seen Rebel’s different faces over the years so it wasn’t much of a surprise. The masks she wore with people to put on a happy face. She sure as hell hadn’t been doing that with him in the SUV.

Maybe texting was easier for her to communicate. Whatever the hell had happened to shift things between them, he just wished they were back at her place or his place right now with no interruptions for hours. Days.

Hell, weeks.

He didn’t want to get ahead of himself, but it was hard not to. And he had to resist the urge to pull out his phone again, to look at the messages. Not to mention he needed to stop thinking about them, because he had to be in control, now of all times. Rebel was his to protect.

He looked back at her, drank her in as she smiled at the woman talking to her. They’d arrived a little over an hour ago and Paige had been in a panic that Rebel wouldn’t have time to get her makeup done and a bunch of other things. Of course there had been enough time, though.

He wasn’t sure what they’d needed to do at all because Rebel was perfect as she was, but apparently she would ‘look shiny’ on camera without the proper makeup. There was a lot about her business he didn’t know, and some he wasn’t sure he’d ever understand, but at least the security he could handle. “I’ll be back,” he murmured to Juan when his phone buzzed in his pocket.

He stepped out of the room to find Nash standing guard and a short line of people waiting for their turn to do an interview. The setup for the interviews was simple and easy to keep her secure. No one went in the room that they didn’t approve, period. Luckily Paige was in charge of vetting and had kept the list of people relatively short.

Not wanting to be overheard, he strode down the hallway in the opposite direction and answered. “Weston here.”

“Hey,” Detective Duarte said upon greeting. “I got the report back about last night and our forensics think it was intentional. The way the wires snapped, it was clear they’d been weakened previously. But they could have gone at any time during the show, so the actual timing wasn’t perfected. It just happened to be near the end.”

“Jesus,” he muttered. “She’s gotten a lot of threats over the years.”

“Yeah, we know. Right now I’m running a facial recognition program over the video recordings from last night to see if we can match any faces with any of the letter senders.

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