Page 59 of Kiss Marry Kill
Annie, who was normally a serious, hard-assed, kickass woman, squealed. Annie was the opposite of a squealer. Jax had never heard a noise that girly come out of her mouth.
A moment later he was alone with Megan in his new makeshift office, tossing out the boxes and cleaning up the mess he’d made. “I’m going to start searching through the cameras.”
Megan hopped on the desk, her legs swinging up and down. “I was on my way to find you when you called me.” She handed him her phone. “Another call.”
Stopping his movement, he looked up. ”What?”
“I had a weird feeling a minute or so before the call. First I heard something coming from the balcony, then I sort of felt like someone was watching me.”
“Jesus, Megan, why didn’t you say something immediately?”
“I’m telling you now,” she huffed, full of sass. “Anyway, I really don’t think it was anything. I’m just being paranoid, you know, jumping at shadows, and I didn’t actually see anything when I went outside.”
“What exactly did you hear?”
“Something, maybe pebbles, hitting the glass doors. But they’re mowing the lawn outside, it was probably nothing. And the phone was just more of the same. Breathing and then hanging up.”
“Next time, you don’t go out to look for the danger. You call me.”
“Who’s going to scale twenty feet? And the maintenance guys would’ve noticed something unusual. I knew it wasn’t anything. Just a feeling. But since you’ve set all this up,” she pointed to the computer system, “I figured it was worth a check. Put your equipment to good use.” She grinned, tapping the top of the monitor.
Shaking his head, irritated that she was being careless, he sat down and clicked on the appropriate application, and then scrolled through her phone for the time-stamp of the call “So the call happened at one eighteen, and the noise was from your room, so it would be the east side,” he said. He clicked on the correct camera and pressed play. They watched for a few minutes, forwarding and slowing down from between noon and two, just in case. When nothing appeared, he did the same thing with the other cameras nearby.
“I guess I’m just jittery. It was nothing,” she said, relieved.
He eyed her carefully, she was still scared, obviously. “Talk to me. What’s going on?”
She shook her head. “Nothing, just glad it was nothing,” she said, plastering a fake smile on her face.
“Megan, come on. Tell me.”
Blowing out a breath she leaned against the table. “I keep thinking of that moment when I heard the window break, and then his feet as he walked into the closet. I was sure I was dead. I was bracing myself. I can’t get that out of my head.”
“It was a scary thing, Megan. Nothing wrong with feeling scared and jumpy from it. Until we catch this guy, you’re going to be looking over your shoulder constantly, that’s normal. I wish I could make it go away for you.” He pulled her by the waist onto his lap. “I wish I could take that fear and make it disappear.”
“I’ll be fine. I’m sorry to make you worry and go through all this.”
“It’s my job and it’s your safety. So never be sorry.”
“I think I’m going to go shower. Maybe we can order dinner or something?”
“I thought you had something planned for tonight.”
Looking distracted, she stared at him in confusion, then remembered. “Oh yeah, I did. But another time, maybe.” She started to walk away, but he took her forearm.
“I don’t like whatever is happening right now. We’re going out. Either I’m taking you to dinner or we’re going to go wherever it was you wanted to go.”
“It’s not safe, Jax.”
“I thought you said that as long as you were with me you would be safe. Did something change?”
“No, nothing changed. But in the Bahamas we were far away from the crazy stalker. Anywhere we go here in town, he could be following us or eating right next to us. Watching us.”
Jax didn’t like this. She should let him do the worrying. Yes, she needed to be vigilant, but she didn’t have to stay holed up inside her house, terrified.
“Go shower. When you’re done, we’re going out.”
“But Jax—”
