His gaze shifted left then
right. “Yeah, I’m still into computers,”
he said. “Hacking mostly.”
She
nodded. The tone of his voice told her
he was on a job.
“I
should have hired you to help me find out who set me up before I had to leave my job,
“ she said. Why hadn’t she thought of
that? Purportedly a wizard at computers, his undercover work usually had a
computer connection one way or another.
“I’d
be happy to do that, Grev. When this job
is done.” He touched her arm and leaned
in as if to kiss her cheek. “Get the
hell out of here! Now! You’re in big-time danger here, Grev.”
She
smiled at him. Didn’t give him
away. “Call me some time, handsome,” she
said and made a show of looking at her watch.
“Look, I gotta go.”
She
turned and walked away. She had no
intention of getting herself into any more trouble. She had Verbena to consider. If anything happened to Grevellia, Verbena
would have to go back to her hard-assed, nasty grandfather. No way she’d let that happen. Plus, she didn’t want to give Vince’s cover
away. His eyes had been pleading with
her to go. Whatever he was working on
had to be nasty.
Hell,
she hoped he wasn’t in trouble because of her showing up. Maybe she should have stayed and helped him? No. He’d
had every chance to tell her he needed help when he’d whispered in her
ear. He just wanted her out of there.
Grev
made it to her car quickly. She keyed
the ignition and pointed her vehicle in the direction of home. She thought about lack of dinner and figured Verbie
hadn’t eaten either. She pulled into a
Pizzeria on the way and grabbed an extra large pizza with the works.
The pizza
smelled so good. She hoped Verbie was
extra hungry because if not, they’d be eating it for days.
Turning
off the car she looked at her place and frowned. The lights weren’t on in her townhouse. She glanced at her watch. Yeah, it was late, but Verbie had only left
her to go home a short while ago. It was only a couple of streets over, she
should’ve made it home safely.
Grevellia
dropped the pizza on the kitchen table.
“Verbie! Verbie, did you go to
bed?”
It
felt like her voice echoed back when no one answered. Verbie wasn’t here. She knew it the minute she saw the house with
no lights. Holy shit! No! She shouldn’t
have let Verbie go home alone.
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