“Don’t worry. Sona’s safe,” Bill said, answering her question before she could ask it. “Remember, it’s a penthouse with lots of built-in security already which we’ve enhanced. We also have paid bodyguards onsite.”
Ahri heaved out a breath, not sure she was comforted by that.
“Would you like to know what we’ve found about your late husband?”
“What?” she asked, her pulse quickening.
“My team found it curious that as soon as one of them initiated a search about Zed Meisner’s business accounts, we started getting an unusually high number of hacker hits out of Mexico. We have a private investigator doing some footwork for us in Phoenix.”
“I don’t understand the significance of Mexico,” she said.
“There’s the possibility that he was working with some accounts for a company or companies that are fronts for a drug cartel.”
Ahri blinked, her mind in a frozen state of disbelief for a few seconds. “This is a bad action movie, right? I’m in a theater, and I can get up and go home.”
“I’m sorry.” Bill spread his hands in front of him.
She stared at a picture on the wall, not seeing it as her thoughts swirled in different directions. What had Zed been involved with? It’d be nice to be able to tell Bill there was no way her husband would have willingly worked for a drug cartel. The truth was that she didn’t know. He’d been a stranger for so long that she wondered if she’d ever really known him.
“It’s still preliminary,” Bill said.
“Why haven’t you told me any of this before?” Ahri couldn’t help feeling a little irritated.
“Because we don’t have anything conclusive.”
“All right.” She let out a breath, having to accept his reasoning. “Please let me know if you learn anymore.”
“Absolutely.”
Bill picked up his sandwich again. Having lost her appetite, Ahri headed for her last training with Cass.
Rafe metthe guys for a quick lunch at the PC Café, grateful Ahri wouldn’t be there for this first game as an official member of their team. It would give him a chance to casually see what Kayn knew about where Ahri’s date was taking her.
“I’m thinking about taking the family out to dinner tonight,” he said to Kayn as the game loaded.
“Where to? Ahri’s going for pizza.” Kayn started tapping the keyboard as the battle began.
“The kids are over their stomach bug and love pizza,” Rafe said.
Pizza. He had to play the boss here at the office, but nothing said they couldn’t run into each other accidentally. On purpose. He grinned. Nothing would please him more than to see how her date turned out.
“Do you know where your sister’s going?” Rafe asked.
“Huh?” Kayn shot him a sidelong glance. “Oh, I think she said Capones.”
Ahri droveto the restaurant and found Ken waiting for her at the door. His expression lit up when he saw her. It was the best kind of compliment and just what she needed after that depressing talk with Bill.
“You look really nice,” Ken said and signaled the hostess who seated them at a large table.
Ahri glanced around the room, surprised that all the smaller ones were taken up by college-aged couples.
“In the meeting I didn’t hear what you do at REKD,” Ken said after they’d placed their orders.
“Admin support.”
“Ah, a clerk.”
“Executive assistant.” Ahri decided that while it might be niceif he didn’t realize she worked for Rafe, he was bound to find out eventually anyway.
