Page 80 of Untouchable
“You said you wanted us to report if anything happened concerning Miss Watson.”
“Yes.” Caleb’s heart jumped painfully. “What happened? Is she okay?”
“Yes. She’s fine. But Pete witnessed something that seems… worth mentioning.”
Tim’s pause in completing the sentence was the first clue Caleb had that he was about to hear something he didn’t want to hear. “Okay. Tell me.”
“You know she was meeting with a client this afternoon. She asked Pete to wait in the lobby instead of coming up to the apartment with her.”
“What?” Caleb interrupted him. “There are multiple access points to apartment buildings. You can’t be sure she would be safe if he just waited in the lobby.”
“I understand that, sir. Pete didn’t want to wait there, but she insisted. And our understanding was that her protection wasn’t forced.”
Caleb let out a breath, knowing everything Tim said was correct. They couldn’t force protection on Kelly if she refused it no matter how much Caleb might want to.
“Okay,” he said. “So what did Pete do?”
“Since he was concerned about leaving her up there unprotected, he managed to get access to the building’s security cameras while he waited. There aren’t very many—just in the lobby and the public areas. Including a workout room on the eighth floor.”
Caleb drew his eyebrows together. “Okay. So what’s the point?”
“The point is that, after she met with the client, Miss Watson went to the eighth floor and met with someone in the workout room. Tim copied the video feed. I’m sending it to you now.”
Caleb froze, trying to work out the significance of this information. “Who did she meet with?”
“We don’t know. We’re trying to identify him, but we have nothing to go on, so I don’t think we’ll be able to figure it out. They seemed… close.”
And it was then that Caleb’s heart stopped jumping and started to sink. “Close?”
“Sex didn’t happen. But close. Yes.” Tim was obviously reluctant to give that particular answer.
Caleb cleared his throat. “Okay. Thank you. I’ll look at the video and tell you how to proceed.”
He was holding his breath when he pulled up the message Tim had just sent him, clicking open the video feed.
The video quality was poor and it was black and white, but Kelly was clearly visible coming into the room with a tall, dark-haired man.
The man was facing the camera more than Kelly was, and he was clearly into her. Caleb could tell even from the slightly fuzzy image. They talked, standing very close, and the man got closer and closer as the conversation progressed.
Caleb recognized the man immediately. The same man from the dressing room. The one Kelly had insisted was a stranger who was randomly coming on to her.
As he watched, Kelly put her hand on the guy’s arm at one point, and later he had her pressed up to the wall, his body against hers.
Caleb felt a shuddering of possessive rage as he watched this other man with his body all over Kelly.HisKelly. And something painful ripped through his chest as he saw her arms go up around his neck.
He dreaded the idea of seeing them kiss, but he couldn’t look away.
He waited, a lump lodged hard in his throat, for something worse to happen, but they left before anything did, the man’s arm around Kelly’s waist.
He stared at the final image for a long time, trying to think, trying to use his mind instead of his instinct, which was to howl in outrage and start knocking things over.
There weren’t many possibilities for why Kelly had met up with this man. She’d snuck away to meet with him twice, so they were obviously in some sort of relationship.
She had lied to him—right to his face, so convincingly that he’d completely fallen for it. Whether or not she was cheating on him with this guy, she was keeping secrets from him.
Either way, Kelly wasn’t being faithful.
He’d just turned down a luscious woman who had offered him easy sex for the taking. He hadn’t even wanted her.
