Page 115 of The Sniper
“So, the diamonds haven’t been recovered?”I ask.
“Commodities like diamonds don’t sit around.They will have had buyers that took them within hours.”
I won’t ever get the necklace my father bought me back, and that’s the saddest thing about this.
No, losing Jayden is.
Did I ever have him, though?It doesn’t feel like it.
“Well, I guess we owe Messy Bob an apology.”I finish my donut and tip back the last of my coffee.“That’s a joke, but it is good to know it wasn’t a crazy fan.”
“Don’t get complacent, Tiff.”
I don’t plan to be.I’m keeping BHS on as my private security, and they’ve said it might not be Noah.
He’s been wonderful, though.
A few days after the shooting, I phoned Rebecca, and we talked about me having a break and coming to visit her in London.
During our discussion, I told her all about Jayden.
“Honey, you’re out of his league, and he likely knows it.”Rebecca said.
“I don’t care about that sort of thing.I don’t need a man to provide for me.In a month I’ll be able to repay Dad, and the house is mine.”
“That’s amazing, but how will that make your hot alpha bodyguard feel?Those types of men are very proud.”
I chewed my lip.
Was that his problem?
If it was, and a week on he hadn’t contacted me, I had my answer.Which meant I should take Mom’s advice and see someone else.
Sam Moore.
She’d been trying to set me up with him for years.Our mothers were good friends, and while he was a very good-looking man, I hadn’t wanted to date him as I knew the two of them would be so excited and push hard for a marriage between us.
Sam is in show business, and while not yet hugely famous, he was on the precipice.
I wasn’t sure I wanted that life; all the media attention again, the red carpets, and invasion of privacy.
That probably sounds cynical, given what I did, but I was able to control it.
I wasn’t a movie star, which was a whole other universe compared to what I did.
I know—I lived it as a child.
Sam had messaged asking me out to dinner, and I was sitting on the response.As I watched Noah and Sadie flirt...more Sadie, to be fair...I decided I should go.
It would at least help me move on from Jayden.
It was just dinner, after all.
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SAM PICKS ME up inhis Ferrari around seven and drives us to one of the hottest spots in Los Angeles.
Salt.
