phone. It’s turned off, actually. Agent Shaw put some encryption device on it, but I was too worried to even turn it on.”
“One sec.” Agent Castle pulled out his phone and sent a quick text. A second later he was nodding his head. “You’re safe to turn it on. No one can see if you’ve read an email or received a text. There’s no way the phone can be hacked. It’s this new program developed by some wonder kid.”
Trent felt Skye’s knee began to bounce nervously. “Are you sure?”
“Absolutely.”
Skye reached into her back pocket and pulled out her phone. She powered it up and the text messages were like a strobe light as they flooded her phone. Each one made Skye’s stomach knot a little tighter.
“Geez,” Savannah said with a little laugh. “I now don’t feel bad about how much I text.”
It helped to lighten the mood as Karri turned on her phone and began to stare at the tsunami of emails coming into her account and her own text messages. “My mom has been trying to get in touch with me. I’d better call her and let her know we’re okay. Is that safe to do, Agent Castle?”
“Yes. You can use your phone as you normally do without worry of it being traced.”
“Thank you,” Karri said with a little smile that Skye recognized as Karri’s flirtatious smile. Interesting.
“I’d better go with you. You know your mom will have twenty questions for us,” Skye pushed back from the table and instantly missed the warmth of Trent’s touch.
“Stay close. I’m going to talk to Sheriff Fox about security for you.”
“Security?” Skye asked, stopping. “I’ll meet you outside, Karri.”
“I want someone with you at all times.” Agent Castle didn’t look as if he’d budge on that and Skye didn’t know how she felt about it. In L.A., yes, she wanted that. But here she wanted to be normal. It had been the most perfectly normal day and she’d loved every second.
“I’ll be with her,” Trent told Agent Castle with a no-argument tone.
Agent Castle looked between them and then to Sheriff Fox who shrugged. “Trent’s capable. But,” Sheriff Fox paused to get their attention, “any time Trent is busy or unable to be with Miss Jessamine, either Deputy King or I are to be called and will stay with her until Trent’s able to take over.”
Skye moved to talk but Sheriff Fox slowly shook his head to stop her. “Further, either Deputy King or I will be stopping by numerous times a day to check in.”
“I’d go farther than that and ask that Miss Jessamine attach GPS sensors to her purse and phone that will allow me, Agent Shaw, and Sheriff Fox know where you are at all times.”
Skye sucked in an angry breath. No narrowed-eyed look from the men was going to keep her quiet now. “Now wait a minute. That’s a little much. You know where I will be and who I am with at all times. Do you really need to track me? And isn’t that what Agent Shaw took off my phone? Won’t that just allow someone bad to find me?”
“May I offer a solution that may ease your mind?”
Skye looked over as a man leaned forward from the corner. He was wearing a suit even her agent couldn’t afford. His face was sexy in the hard cut of his jaw, but his eyes were just as hard and that made him appear to be a man who wasn’t to be messed with.
“Who are you and why should I listen to you?” Skye demanded. She was surprised when his full lips tilted up into a hint of a smile.
“So, you do have some backbone.”
“Ryker,” Trent snapped and the man shrugged as if the reprimand meant nothing to him. “This is my cousin Ryker Faulkner.”
“And, again, why should I listen to you?” Skye asked again, not impressed with his alpha act. She’d been around sleazy, manipulative casting directors and producers. She managed them and she’d manage this man too.
“Because one of my companies is a specialty tech company that works hard to not be known by the general public,” he said easily as he laced his fingers together and looked over at her as if she should know what that means.
Skye raised an eyebrow as if saying, yeah, so? and was pleased to see the faint smile return to Ryker’s lips.
“So that little brand-new program Agent Shaw put on your phone developed by some young wonder kid? That’s from my