Page 157 of Tenderfoot

“Another no from him, and since we got his phone and laptop and had a good look through both, we’re inclined to believe him.”

At least Kevin wasn’t that level of A-hole.

And now we knew (or once I told all the girls that would be a we) who had Kevin’s phone and laptop.

“The two bad dudes Cap and Gabe got on Saturday?” I pushed.

“Sorry, baby,” he murmured. “As your prize for being my hot, slutty cheerleader and making her man come hard, you got confirmation you women are on the right track. But that’s all you get.”

I…

He…

What?!

“You-you confirmed that be-because I…we…because of what just happened?” I spluttered.

His beautiful face split into a huge grin. “No. I woulda done it anyway. But now that my good girl is back, I like reminding her how bad she can be. She gets all uptight. It’s cute.”

Ugh!

I rolled my eyes, and while taking a sip of my coffee, I grabbed my phone.

I then choked on my coffee when I saw I had two missed calls from Dad already that morning.

“What?” Javi asked sharply.

“Dad phoned,” I told him.

“He leave a voicemail?”

There wasn’t a notification for it, but I opened my phone and checked, just in case.

I shook my head.

“Where you at with that?” Javi asked.

This was an excellent question.

“I…well, I kinda would like to know what he has to say,” I told him.

“You ready for that right now?”

I bit my lip because I wasn’t sure.

“Babe,” he called.

I focused on him.

“Brody called me yesterday,” he said.

“Brody?” I asked.

“Our computer genius in Denver.”

I didn’t know why he was telling me this, so I nodded for him to go on.

“He gets alerts about certain things to do with cases, or just to keep the men covered.”

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