Page 15 of Never and Always
Now he was in this catatonic state where no one would be able to reach him until he was ready to let themin.
The last time Glenn was like this was when he’d broken up with Jenna, his long-term girlfriend of six years. He caught her cheating on him. Glenn had stayed like this for months and shut everyoneout.
Nick knew this was a little different, but Glenn’s behavior was thesame.
“I’m going to investigate this,” Nick said, breaking the tense silence that filled theroom.
He’d just been sitting here with him, trying to figure out what to say and how to make thingsbetter.
The situation was bad and anyone could understand the anger Glenn felt. The guy had just lost hisinheritance.
“What’s the point? You and I both know that money is gone. We won’t get it back.” Glenn looked over athim.
Well, at least he wastalking.
“That doesn’t stop us from trying. I can look into it and see what I canfind.”
Nick was hoping that this Alan guy wasn’t as clever as the criminals he’d encountered in the past. One of the first cases Sawyer put him on was to help him track a bunch of cyber criminals. They’d used sophisticated devices to make it difficult to find any trace ofthem.
“I don’t know, Nick. I’m still trying to get my head around the fact that I thought I had a million dollars I specifically didn’t want to touch because I wanted to give it to the children I hope to have in the future, and now some piece of shit has it. Just like that.” Glenn tossed the remote control on the floor and threw himself back into the cushions behind him on thesofa.
“I’msorry.”
“Everyone’s sorry, but nothing can be done.” The expression of worry deepened on his face and he sat forward again. “What if this guy gets his hands on everythingelse?”
“It’s a possibility. That’s why I want toinvestigate.”
The door opened slightly, drawing their attention over to it, and Mia came in. She had her hair down and it flowed about her, curling slightly at the ends where it touched her elbows. It sparkled in the bright morning sunlight, emphasizing herbeauty.
She brought her dainty hands together and rested them in the center of her cleavage, which he couldn’t help but notice in the camisole top she wore. She looked from him to Glenn and kept her focus onGlenn.
“Morning guys, I…” Her voice faltered and her hands started shaking. “Is there anything I cando?”
Glenn looked like he would breathe fire at her. “Don’t you think you’ve done enough? I mean, come on.” He smirked with heavysarcasm.
“I want to fix this,” she said in a smallvoice.
“Then leave it alone. Leave it all alone, and go back to Florida,” Glenncried.
The horrified look on Mia’s face got to Nick and made him feel bad forher.
“Glenn, I don’t have anything left in Florida. Everything is gone. I have nothingleft.”
“Wow, well you should have thought of that before you gave your opportunist accountant access toeverything.”
“Glenn, this was a mistake. I trusted him. I knew him for years and he just took advantage ofme.”
Nick felt his fist clench. He couldn’t imagine anyone using her and it angered him that some guyhad.
“I don’t care about that. You should have exercised more caution. This is really fucked up, Mia. The guy stole two milliondollars.”
“Yes, and my business. I have nothing because of him.” Tears spilled down hercheeks.
The anger and tension was too raw to talk to either of them and their arguments were just gettingworse.
“Find somewhere else to go, Mia,” Glenn declared, shocking themboth.
Nick looked at him as if he was mad. “Glenn,” heattempted.
