Mac headed to the kitchen to get her coffee and lunch.Barry was hot on her heels.“Can I at least walk you to the dock?”
She should say no.Her team would ask questions about Barry she couldn’t answer, but she enjoyed spending time with him.“Very well.”
Barry planted a quick kiss on her forehead and headed for the door holding it open for her.Mac followed behind him, and they walked hand in hand toward the docks.
“So, what are you going to do with the intel you find?”
“Hopefully find a clue as to what Miles is doing.Why he’s building on this side of the island.Maybe information on his meeting partner from the other night.”
“You think the secretary has all of that on her phone?”Mac didn’t want to say the woman’s name.Just thinking about her made Mac see red.Though she knew she had nothing to be jealous of.Barry had chosen her, not that woman.
“I won’t know until I go through it, but secretaries have more information than most people give them credit for.There might be documents saved on her phone or in her apps.Almost everything is digital now, so tracking documents is even easier.”
Huh, she’d never really thought about that.“So, if you wanted to, you could scan my phone and get all of my shark data?”
“If you share the same information with your phone as you do your computer, yes.”
That was scary.Not that she’d ever worried someone would steal her information.It was more for comparison data and adding new sharks.
“If you want, I can put a block on your phone so no one ever could,” Barry offered.
At the risk of repeating herself asking if he could do that, she shook her head.“It’s never been a concern before.I’m good.”
They reached the dock, and Mac’s team was already loading gear.Monte was the first to notice them as he stood on the dock and handed things over the side of the boat to a deck hand named Carl who had been with them a few seasons.
“Morning, Mac,” Monte greeted with a wide grin.
He was in his third year of school and already had a knack for this line of work.Mac enjoyed every season when he came out.He had a thirst for knowledge and an eagerness to get his hands dirty.Even if it meant chum duty.
“Morning, Monte.This is Barry, a friend of mine.”She didn’t know how else to introduce him.My lover and private investigator?
Monte didn’t even blink at the intro.“Nice to meet you, Monte.”He held his hand out for Barry to shake, which happened to be his prosthetic.
Barry took it and shook.It amazed Mac how realistic it looked.She forgot it was a prosthetic most times until she saw where it reached his real shoulder.
“Morning, boss.”Julie came to the side of the boat, a hand over her eyebrows to shield her from the sun’s glare.
“Julie.This is Barry.”
“Hi.”Julie shook his hand as well.“Are you coming out with us?”
“No, he’s not,” Mac answered for him.“He’s just seeing us off.”
“Well, we have a few minutes until we have to leave if you want a tour,” Julie invited.
Mac raised a questionable eyebrow at that.If Mac didn’t know and trust Julie, she would say the girl was flirting with Barry.The truth was, Julie was just overly friendly.Just another reason Mac didn’t want her team involved in the investigation.
“I’d love to,” Barry answered Julie while looking at Mac with a wide grin as if to say ‘ha-ha, I got on your boat anyway.’
“Julie, you can do the tour.I have some things I need to discuss with Burt for the plans for today.”
Barry stepped over the railing without aid, and Julie started showing him around.Mac stepped on and headed for the quarterdeck.Burt was already in there with a clipboard and running a system check.
“Burt.”
Burt glanced up at her.“Moin, bes,” he greeted then went back to scribbling something on paper.
“How are things looking?”
