“No, I’m good, but thank you, Sherrie.”He handed her his empty glass and continued to watch Andrea.He moved around the bar, so he didn’t look like a creeper staring at her all night.The men who’d cornered her had left and hadn’t come back.
Jack moved through the bar and found the manager’s office.The guy was helping behind the bar, so Jack knew he had a small window of time to check out the security footage.
Jack logged onto the computer—it wasn’t hard, the guy had his password written on a notepad in his desk—and found the surveillance system.It monitored all corners of the bar, around the outside of the building, and looked out into the parking lot.
Jack backed up the footage to where the guys showed up and watched.He watched them park.He zoomed in trying to read the license plate, but it was just far enough away that it couldn’t be read.They walk across the lot with determined strides and exited a few minutes later.They seemed to be arguing amongst themselves before one of them called someone.
Jack wished these surveillances had audio to know who this guy was talking to.They all piled into the car, and he watched it back up and leave.He put in his flash drive and downloaded the video to analyze later.
He should call Barry.He was better at all the computer stuff.Jack was decent but nowhere near Barry’s skill level.
Jack left the room the way he’d found it and slipped back into the bar, no one the wiser.He stayed a few more hours, but as the crowd started to thin out, he knew it was time to go.He’d be easy to spot if he stayed to closing.
With one last lingering glance, Jack slipped out with a group of couples all slug over each other giggling and darted off toward his car.Come tomorrow he needed to get some answers.He couldn’t keep believing the best of Andrea.He had to start getting aggressive and figure out what she was hiding.
Chapter 26
Jack snapped awake when he heard his phone going off far too early in the morning.Normally, he was already up, but he had stayed at the bar late and had stayed up even later going over the footage again and again until his vision crossed.He’d finally had to pack it in when the sun started coming up.He sent a copy of the footage to Barry and requested his help before crawling into bed.
Now it felt like he had barely shut his eyes before the ringing of his phone woke him.He glared at the device, but his features relaxed when he saw it was Andrea calling him.
“Well, this is a pleasant surprise,” he answered.
“Did I wake you?”Andrea sounded far too awake for barely past eight in the morning and just getting off a night shift.
“No, I’ve been up for a while.”It was a lie, but he preferred talking to her more than just dreaming about her.
“What are you doing?”
“Lying in bed thinking about you.”Now that wasn’t a lie.His cock was semi erect from the dream she had woken him from.
“Yeah, am I doing anything exciting?”
He was all for phone sex but not when the woman in question was only across the street.“Always, but why are you up so early?I thought you got off work in the early morning.”He had seen her get home, but it was best not mention that.She’d gotten upset when he’d said he would go to the bar to see her and called him a stalker.
“I did, but for some reason my body won’t sleep.”
“I can help with that,” he purred.His cock jumped in agreement.
“That’s what I was hoping you’d say.”
What?Andrea had never been so verbal about wanting him like this before.He’d only been teasing her.But a guy could get used to this.“Is that a fact?Well, I don’t want to leave you wanting.”
“Your house or mine?”
“Yours.”After scoping out her bedroom last night, he wanted to break in that bed.
“I’ll unlock the door,” she whispered then hung up.
She didn’t have to tell him twice.He wasn’t going to question why she was giggling and telling him she wanted his dick just a few hours after she’d gotten off work.
Jack pushed up from the bed, tossed a shirt over his head, and put on a pair of board shorts before slipping his feet into sandals.He paused long enough to brush his teeth and was out the door in under five minutes.He didn’t care about combing his hair, it was going to get messed up anyway.
Andrea was already waiting for him at her door.“Took you long enough.I thought I was going to have to send a search party.”Andrea greeted him in just a baggy shirt that reached mid-thigh.
“Are you wearing panties?”
“Come in and find out.”Andrea stepped back inside and disappeared, leaving him standing there panting like a dog after a hard run.
