Page 49 of Played by Him

“But you’re going to tell me anyway,” I said. I opened the box and scowled. This thing was going to taste like cardboard.

“When someone comes along asking for something like every available census record for the past twenty years, it tends to get noticed.”

I slid the pizza into the oven and tried to decide if I was creeped out, annoyed, or indifferent to the fact that the FBI knew what I’d been doing today. “Did that overly-enthusiastic guy at the courthouse call you or something? Do you have them looking for me?”

I was going with annoyed, apparently.

Clay rolled his eyes. “Way too high for my pay grade. I can barely order coffee on my own. Besides the fact that I’d never do something like that to you, I don’t have even close to that sort of authority.”

I raised an eyebrow and folded my arms. “What about your partner? Does Agent Matthews have that sort of authority? Does he have Jenna and me doing his dirty work while he spies on us?”

Clay’s expression sobered. “He wouldn’t do anything to hurt Jenna. Ray’s on the up-and-up. He looks at her like a little sister.”

“Then how did you know exactly what I was doing and where I was doing it?”

He sighed. “That’s an excellent question.” He walked over to the fridge and took out a beer. “Here’s what I know. I was sitting at my desk, finishing some paperwork when Special Agent Diaz came to my desk and told me that I needed to pay you a visit. He said he got a call that you were ‘ruffling some feathers’ and you needed to leave things alone.”

Someone in authority higher than a special agent in the FBI had eyes on Jenna and me.

I really hoped it didn’t mean what I thought it meant.

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