“I’d steal more if you’d let me.”It turned his stomach flirting with a woman who wasn’t Andrea.He’d always been able to flirt with any woman, it didn’t matter.Now he only wanted to flirt with Andrea.
“Don’t tempt me, or I’ll take you up on that.”She giggled incessantly.If she was trying to convince him she was Andrea, she was failing now.Andrea didn’t giggle.“Now, besides a kiss, what are you doing here?”
Well, he had planned on surprising Andrea with his gift and getting a confession out of her.Maybe when she saw the boutique logo, she’d recognize the gig was up.“I told you I’d be by after my work thing.It took longer than I thought, but to make up for it, I brought you this.”He held up the gift bag, showing the boutique emblem on it.
“Oh.”Fake Andrea looked back into the house as if waiting for the real Andrea to come out any moment.“That is so sweet of you.Thank you,” Fake Andrea gushed and took the bag.
“Does that mean I’m forgiven?”He watched her carefully for her reaction.
“Completely,” she answered without blinking.
“Can I come in and watch you open it?”He wanted to be out of eyesight when he took down the real enemy.There were too many nosy neighbors.
Fake Andrea looked panicked again.“Sorry, now isn’t a good time.Work emergency.I actually need to call them back, but thank you for the gift.”
“Of course.Sorry to bother you, darling.”
“Not a problem.Under normal circumstances, you can knock on my door anytime.Gift or not.”
“Don’t tempt me, or I’ll take you up on that.”He fired her earlier words back at her.“Night.”Jack walked away, feeling Fake Andrea’s eyes on him the whole time until he went back into his house.
As soon as he closed the door, he called Nick.“We have a problem.”
“What?”
“I’ve been watching the wrong woman.”
“Impossible.We had visual confirmation.It’s her.”
“No, Andrea Burns has a twin sister.That’s our real target.”
“Fuck,” Nick hissed.Jack concurred.Two weeks of surveillance wasted.Though to be fair, he hadn’t done that much surveillance lately.However, he had spent the past two weeks getting close to the wrong woman.“How?Doesn’t matter anymore.Does she suspect you know?”
“Negative.”
“Good, can you get close to this one?”
“Not without compromising myself.They are staying at the same location.I already spent two weeks getting close to the other one.I don’t want to get in between two sisters.”
“I don’t blame you,” Nick muttered before speaking up.“She must be on the run.Keep an eye on the house and be on the lookout for any activity.”Jack peeked through his blinds to look at Andrea’s house.Her blinds were shut, but he could see shadows moving.Two people were in the house.Andrea and her sister.Shit, he should have expected something like this.When things weren’t adding up to make Andrea the suspect, he should have guessed there was another person.
There had been so many red flags.No pictures in the house.Avoiding conversations about her family.Andrea must be getting a laugh out of him for pulling one over on him.He wouldn’t put it past her; Andrea knew about the base attacks and was protecting her sister.
“What about the building?”
“I couldn’t find anything on it.No one flagging the system.It could have been a ruse to throw people off if they found it.”But why put that many cameras and unlisted numbers for it to be a dead end?
“Put your focus on the house.This is our first big break; we can’t lose her.”
“I won’t let her get away, sir.”He didn’t care if it upset Andrea.He was going to bring her sister to justice.
Chapter 31
“Who was at the door?”Andrea asked, coming down the hall from her room.She’d had to call her work and tell them she wasn’t coming in tonight.Burt hadn’t been happy with her calling off last minute, but she couldn’t leave her sister alone on her first night.
She still wasn’t convinced her sister was the innocent victim she was playing at, so she’d rather keep an eye on her than come home at two in the morning and find her things were missing or that the person after Holly had showed up.
Now that she thought about it, and after seeing her sister, Andrea wondered now if the men from last night hadn’t been propositioning her while mistaking her for Holly.When they’d said they had a job for her, she thought they’d mistaken her for some kind of stripper or hooker.But now she was thinking they were trying to hire her for a job.
