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“Corporate espionage? Seems like small potatoes for him.”
“I certainly don’t want to spread that rumor without substantive proof,” Margo said. She took off her glasses and stared him in the eye. “We both know what happens to good people when they’re accused of doing something illegal.”
His stomach flipped. Yeah, they did.
“Okay. But if he’s guilty—”
“I don’t know what’s going on,” Margo said as she slid her glasses back up her nose. Tess turned onto the street. Jack waved at her, and she honked once.
“I hear a but.”
“But nothing. We don’t leak any of this unless we have one hundred and ten percent proof that Logan Monroe is stealing proprietary information. It’ll destroy his reputation.”
“Agreed. Where do we start?”
“We?” Margo waved toward Tess. “I don’t think my big sister is going to want me involved, and I sure as hell am not taking orders from either of you.”
“We, as in partnership.”
“I don’t know.”
“Margo—”
“I don’t know,” she repeated. “Let me think about it. Dammit, Jack, I don’t know how this will work, but I’ll figure it out.”
“We can figure it out.” He wanted to work with Margo. He had since the beginning, when they first conceived the idea of a family business. But he understood why she couldn’t be part of it, at least right now. Still, he saw an in, and he would take it. Wedge his foot into the crack until Margo opened the door and came back.
“Let’s go to the house and see what everyone knows.” She smiled at him as she opened the back door of the truck. “Maybe this will work,” she said, her tone definitely lighter. “You’ll get more out of the police than me. And we’ll go from there. Okay?”
Jack wasn’t certain that Margo wouldn’t take the information and bolt, but she was his sister, and he—mostly—trusted her.
“Okay,” he said, sliding into the passenger seat. “Don’t make me regret it.”
Tess turned and said to Margo, “You ran off after two men alone. You didn’t know Jack was following you. Didn’t have backup. They could have been armed, waiting to ambush you, and—”
“Hey, sis. How’ve you been?”
Tess whipped back around and glared at her in the rearview mirror, then did a quick one-eighty on the dead-end road and headed toward the rental in silence.
Truce, Jack thought. He hoped it lasted more than a day.
He doubted it would last an hour.
Seven
Margo Angelhart
On the short drive back to Monroe’s house, I convinced Jack to talk to the police alone. I had a good relationship with the cops, but Jack had been a cop, and they’d be more open with him.
Tess and I ended up alone in Jack’s truck. I leaned back and closed my eyes.
Tess shifted in her seat, her glare heating my skin. I lasted a minute before I took off my sunglasses and stared back at her. “What?”
“I saw you with the camera. Sex pics? Really?”
“Sex pays,” I said. “Real well.” When Tess scowled, I added, “Prude.”
“Oh, please. So, you have the money shot? Going to get your bonus?”
