Page 139 of Untouchable
She prayed Caleb wouldn’t see them.
She didn’t even glance in that direction as she smiled at him. “I’ll see you later then. Thanks for making room in your schedule for me.”
He gave her a warm, intimate smile. “Anytime.”
She left, her chest and belly aching with emotion. But she closed the door behind her and made sure his assistant wasn’t at her desk. Then she hurried over and opened the top drawer, grabbing the master key fob, which was still where she’d seen it placed a few weeks ago.
Under normal circumstances it was probably a perfectly safe place to keep it since security was high in the building as a whole.
These were not normal circumstances, and she closed her hand around the key as she hurried down the hall to the elevator, her heartbeat racing as she prayed that Caleb wouldn’t find her keys and come after her.
She needed an excuse to come back up here and return this key fob.
When the elevator doors slid open, she hurried on, breathing a sigh of relief. She pressed the button for the basement level and hoped that the coast would be clear.
Hardly anyone was in the building right now. There were the normal security guards stationed at the entrance, but it was the weekend, so they’d seemed bored and laid-back.
She didn’t think they’d be making rounds at three in the afternoon, and no one else should be down here.
She hoped.
When the doors opened, she took a cautious step out, but the lights were dimmed to only safety lighting, and there wasn’t a sound at all from the floor. She walked quickly and quietly, checking out each door that she passed.
She wasn’t sure which one would be the storage room.
There were a couple of offices down here, but they didn’t seem to be in use at the moment. Probably just spares if they ran out of space on the main floors. Then there was a maintenance room.
And then finally a room that was closed and locked, with no posted purpose.
She tried the key, and the door opened easily.
It was definitely the storage room. The room was filled with packed boxes and enormous file cabinets.
The drawers were labeled clearly, so she easily found the one marked PERSONNEL and started looking through the tab identifiers as quickly as she could. She found the personnel files Jack had wanted. They were enormous, which meantlooking through it and taking pictures of certain documents was impossible, so she pulled out the files and put the whole stack in her bag.
It was dangerous, but there was nothing else she could do.
She zipped her bag and then closed the cabinet drawer. She hurried to the door, peeked out at the hall, and then closed and locked the door behind her.
Not until she was back in the elevator, heading up to the top floor again, did she finally take a full breath.
She seemed to have made it. No one had stopped her. Now all she needed to do was return the key fob.
To her relief, the executive suite was still empty, and Caleb’s door was still closed when she returned.
She opened the drawer and placed the fob back where it had been, but she gave a gasp when Caleb’s door started to open.
She closed the drawer as discreetly as she could and forced her panic back down.
Caleb’s brows drew together as he saw her, obviously confused.
Flustered and terrified, she still managed a casual smile. “Sorry. I left my keys on the floor in there, so I had to come back.”
“I know.” He smiled at her and held up her keys. “I just found them.”
“And you were going to bring them down to me?” She took the keys, hoping he wouldn’t notice that her bag was a lot fuller than it had been when she’d arrived. That file was really weighing it down.
“Of course.”
