A Brother's Honor (Grangers) - By Brenda Jackson Page 0,119
looked over the list of names he’d been working with now for more than a month. Three names were marked off. Melissa Swanson, Cal Arrington and Titus Freeman. All were participants in the selling of trade secrets. There were others who looked highly suspect, but he had a feeling there was something he was missing. Sighing deeply, he picked up the phone to call Shana.
“Hello?”
“It’s Kent. I need a rundown of those names again. Of everyone who was in your office at some point in time that first day.”
“All right. I’ll send it over to you now. Just keep in mind that this might not be everyone. Several workers were moving things around in here and hooking stuff up.”
“Okay. I’ll call you if I find anything,” Kent said, then hung up the phone.
Chapter Thirty-Two
Two days later, Shana knew she couldn’t put off telling Jace any longer. Her morning sickness wasn’t going away, and he had spent the past two nights with her. But again, she was grateful he’d left before morning. What if he decided to stay the entire night without leaving early the next morning? She ran the risk of his being there when she was sick in the mornings. If that happened, she would be forced to tell him what was wrong with her, and she preferred not having to tell him that way.
Drawing in a deep breath, she knocked on the door that connected her office to Jace’s. He opened it and smiled down at her. “Hello, beautiful.”
She couldn’t help returning his smile. “I need to talk to you about something.”
“Okay, what is it?”
She shook her head. “It’s private. Personal. I’d rather do it at my place. I just wanted to make sure you were coming over again tonight.”
He leaned in the doorway. “Yes, as long as you have a welcome mat for me, I’ll be there.”
She met his gaze. “The welcome mat is there.”
He reached out and touched her cheek. His eyes darkened with concern. “You okay?”
She nodded. “Yes, but I’ll be better once we’ve had our talk.”
Jace knew that to be true. He had been putting off telling her how he felt and decided tonight he would do it. He wasn’t sure what she needed to talk to him about, but they would discuss whatever was on her mind tonight. As well as what was on his.
“Expect me at the usual time, and I’ll bring dinner,” he said.
“No, it will be my treat this time.”
He lifted a brow. “You’re cooking?”
She chuckled. “No. I plan to stop and pick something up for us on the way home.”
“That won’t be an inconvenience for you?”
“No more than it’s an inconvenience for you whenever you do it.” He’d fed her for the past three nights. Now it was her turn.
“All right, if you’re sure it’s okay.”
“It’s okay, Jace. In fact, I want it to be a special evening.”
He definitely liked the sound of that. He leaned down and brushed a kiss across her lips. “Then I can’t wait.”
* * *
Jace glanced at his watch. It was a little after six and time for him to call it a day. He looked forward to leaving to head over to Shana’s place. He stood to slide into his jacket and lifted a brow when he thought he heard a sound outside his door. As far as he knew, everyone had left for today.
Moving to the door, he opened it and glanced out. He frowned when he saw Shelton Fields at Brandy’s desk. “Shelton, is there anything you need?”
The man jerked around nervously. From the expression on Shelton’s face, it was apparent he hadn’t known Jace was still at the office.
“No, I was just leaving. I needed to place something on Ms. Booker’s desk.”
Jace nodded as he locked his office door. “I’m about to leave, as well. We can walk out together.”
“All right.”
Jace made a mental note to read Shana’s report on Shelton Fields again first thing in the morning. The last time, there hadn’t been any red flags, nothing to give the man a second look, but now that he thought about it, Fields had been acting kind of strange lately. But then, he hadn’t been the only one. Once word had gotten out about Melissa, Arrington and Freeman, a number of the other employees were acting like they thought someone suspected them.
“We had nice weather today,” Jace said when they stepped in the elevator.
“Yes, it was.”
And that was all he said. Jace tossed around in his mind just what he