her out of the shower and dry her off. “Anything you want, the sky's the limit.”
“I need to check on Grams.” Her eyebrows pull together and I lean forward, kissing her.
“I made a few calls last night and this morning. She’s totally safe and I’m going to get to the bottom of this.” I hold her face and look into her eyes. “Do you trust me?”
She nods without hesitation. “Of course I do. I think that’s why I know this will all be okay.”
“Shit, that’s awful,” Renee says after I recount what happened last night.
“I know. I can’t figure out how they tapped into our building’s security system.” I shake my head. There’s been no new update from Jarico. “It’s so similar to what happened to Erin that it makes me sick to my stomach. I think someone might be trying to harass her.”
“Yeah, this feels like some sort of crime of passion.” Renee crosses her arms like she’s chilled. “Hopefully they’ll get in touch with an update soon.” She’s trying to be positive and I appreciate that. “Let’s talk about the proposal.”
I’m immediately thrown back to that moment in bed together when I put the ring on her finger. “Umm, I’m not sure we’d call that a proposal as much as a demand.”
“That makes perfect sense,” she chuckles, looking out the window. “Maybe that’s what I should have done with Dani a long time ago.” Her laughter turns into a sigh as she looks down at her lap. “She’s going to leave me when she finds out you proposed to Erin.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Because it’s been too long and she probably thinks I don’t want to go through with it.”
“Do you?”
Her head snaps up and she scowls at me. “You know I do.”
I lean forward on my desk and prop my elbows on it. “Then stop thinking about every reason she shouldn’t be with you and make it so that she can’t leave.”
She looks away and after a long moment she nods. “Okay, so back to business.” She changes the subject as we discuss the case in Milan and then what else we’ve got on the board.
We talk a long time about who is taking what and how many new cases we’re going to take on. We also talk again about hiring a partner to help out with the workload and we agree it’s finally time.
“I’m going to call Mateo and see if he’s interested,” Renee says, making notes.
“Do you think he’d leave the island?” She shrugs. “He’d be the perfect fit.
“I know.” She’s smug as she flips the page and looks at her notes. “Now, up next on the agenda is staffing.”
I groan because I hate that we’re still dealing with this shit. I swear when we hire this new partner I’m letting them handle all of it. “Have we still not found someone to cover for Samantha while she’s on maternity leave?”
“No, we’ve got that. It’s the guy the staffing agency sent us for Oscar's position in IT. He quit while you were gone.”
“What happened?”
“I don’t know. The supervisor Garry called me from home last week and said something about catching him looking at files he wasn’t supposed to be in.”
“Why would he do that?” He’s in IT but he shouldn’t have had access to everything right away.
“He said when he talked to him about it he said it was a mistake.” She shrugs as she looks at her notes. “I’ve got down here that he reported an incident to HR last week as well when he saw the guy go into some kind of emotional rage.” She reads a little more and makes a hmm sound.
“What?” The hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
“It’s just weird because we were both in the office that day and I don’t remember it. I think it was the day Erin and Betty came to have lunch with you.”
I lean back in my chair as I try to connect the dots. Something is definitely off, and when it comes to things like this I trust my gut.
“Send me the information on him. I want to pass it on to Jarico just in case.”
“Sure, no problem,” Renee agrees, making a note. “I don’t ever recall meeting him in person, but I can ask Garry for anything he might remember.”
I nod as I stand up and send a quick text to Erin. My hackles are rising and I have this urge to make sure she’s okay.
“Do you, Devin? His