Total pages in book: 91
Estimated words: 83800 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 419(@200wpm)___ 335(@250wpm)___ 279(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 83800 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 419(@200wpm)___ 335(@250wpm)___ 279(@300wpm)
"See you soon, Morgan," I tell her as I release her hand and take a step back.
She blinks up at me. As much as I love the attention, it tells me that she probably hasn't had men put in but the most minimal effort to date her. By her own accounts, she has been involved more in casual sex than anything else, and we both know that I'm not even the slightest bit interested in something like that.
If my lips on her palm cause such a reaction, I can't wait to see where else I can touch and press my lips that will make her squirm.
"O-okay," she whispers, but her feet seem locked in place as she watches me.
"Morgan?"
I lift my eyes to the door, finding Kaylee standing there watching us.
We aren't doing anything outwardly unacceptable, but it makes me wonder what thoughts Morgan had running through her head for her to spin around and rush toward her friend.
There's still a grin on my face a minute later when Heathen enters the conference room.
"You look like the cat who ate the canary," he says, but he has a wide smile on his face as well.
It seems that marriage and waking up with his wife in his bed every morning suits him.
"So do you," I say as I sit back at my desk.
"Believe me," he says. "No canary eating in my life. I have different preferences."
"Are you here because you actually need something, or are you bored and just want to bother me?"
The man presses a hand to his chest, a look of mock shock on his face.
"That hurts my feelings."
I shake my head and chuckle. "You're ridiculous."
"I actually do need you to run a quick check on these license plates, and I have a couple of addresses I need info on," he says, walking closer and handing me a folded piece of paper.
"This is for that escort service?" I ask as I unfold the paper.
"Yeah. I'm trying to establish how long some of these players have been in town."
"You want a printout of all this?"
"That'd be great," he says, but instead of leaving and letting me work, he pulls out a chair and sits.
"You want this right now?" I ask, knowing that everyone thinks everything is an emergency and that I should do it right now, but we also have to pace ourselves.
Doing that was something that Kincaid harped on when we were still learning the ropes in New Mexico. We can't always be going a hundred miles an hour. We have to pace ourselves or risk getting burned out. Burnout means we'll miss something, and with what we do, it could be a life-or-death situation for someone.
"What else do you have to do?" he asks, and I can tell it's a genuine question. He's not just trying to be an asshole.
I can think of a hundred things I could be doing with Morgan and my mouth alone, actually, but I don't say that out loud. I can't monopolize her time, no matter how much I'd like to drag her to my room, sit her down on my bed, and tell her my entire life story with the hope that she'd do the same and share with me everything that has ever happened in her life. I know a lot of stuff from my research, but there's also so much I don't know that I'd love to learn from her lips alone.
Jesus, I haven't even kissed the woman, and I feel a little obsessed. I don't usually invest so much emotionally into anyone because things never seem to work out for me.
I key in some of the information. What Heathen is asking for is pretty basic stuff, but there's always a trail to follow. Finding out who owns a house is simple. Following the trail off of that is the fun part.
What form of payment did they use? Was it a card or line of credit? Is one bank account linked to another bank account?
What else have they purchased with that form of payment?
Following financial trails will disclose a lot of habits about someone.
Following the trail off a vehicle purchase is just as revealing, and it would take some very drastic steps in order to prevent someone like me from finding out nearly everything about a person based on one single purchase.
I work through the list, adding all the information to a new document to print out for him and flagging things I think I should revisit. I'm a very thorough researcher, and I want the guys on my team to have any and all information that I can find. I'd rather give each of them way too much than not give them enough. They can decide what they need and don't need. Sometimes, the information I provide doesn't mean much to me but means something to them, so I do my best not to leave anything out.