Page 88 of Get A Fix

“Yeah. Me and Shaw are getting everything from law enforcement on your Elliot Voss/Kit Riggs situation, and Owen has been sending information. He and Nash are flying to LA to meet with Preeya Shah, but the Wi-Fi has been weird on the plane, so I’m playing middleman. Owen can get me, but he can’t get you.”

My heart stopped for a moment, terrified of why Owen and Nash felt the need to turn Jared’s private jet not for home, not toward Chicago, but Los Angeles.

“Okay,” I managed to get out after a moment. “Tell me.”

“Do you wanna know about Shah or Riggs?”

I knew what I should have said, but I couldn’t. “Shah.”

Sharp exhale from him. “Okay, so Owen talked to Preeya Shah, and according to him, she is both absolutely charming and terribly scary, and we all know how much he likes that combination.”

That was Jared Colter in a nutshell. “Yes, we do,” I agreed, and suddenly, even without hearing more, I felt better, the vise around my heart loosening.

“It turns out there’s nothing for Owen to get into with finding any photographic or video evidence of this guy Furniss spying on Mr. Lennox.”

“Why?”

“Because as soon as Mr. Lennox called to tell her what happened, she took it upon herself to go talk to Mr. Furniss.”

“And by talk, you mean…?”

“Threaten him and gain access to every part of his life.”

Jesus. “How?”

“She asked him nicely.”

“Oh, the hell she did.”

“I don’t know. I looked her up, and she’s, like, five feet three. A teeny-tiny woman. She’s beautiful, delicate, and doesn’t look like she could scare anyone.”

“But?”

“But I haven’t met her in person, so I don’t know if she’s menacing face-to-face. All I know is what Owen told me and that Furniss gave her access to everything. His cloud, all his files, digital and paper, and even his safety-deposit box at the bank and his secret safety-deposit box that he keeps under his aunt’s name.”

“Why would he do that?”

“Have a secret box, or give her access to it?”

“The access, of course.”

“Probably because she asked.”

“That’s crazy.”

“I guess he knows her and didn’t want her mad at him, and more importantly, didn’t want her to come back for a second visit.”

“Huh.”

“That’s what I said.”

“What else?”

“She tossed his place, checked his email, his messaging apps, borrowed his laptop, went through everything there, and then had her tech guy—who just so happens to be a friend of Owen’s—go through the laptop again just to make sure she didn’t miss anything.”

I liked Preeya Shah so very much. Easy to see from her tenacity and how thorough she was that she cared deeply for Ash.

“And? Did she find anything?”