"It matters," I explained, "because whoever sent those two guys isn't gonna give up. And trust me, there'll be hell to pay for what happened to them."
"You still haven't told me. Whatdidhappen to them?" From the look on her face, she wasn't completely sure she wanted to know.
"They'll be fine," I told her.
She gave me a skeptical look, but said nothing.
I shrugged. "I left them in the living room."
"Alive?"
"Last time I checked." I gave her a reassuring smile. "Hey, if the cops had found a couple of dead bodies, we'd have heard about it by now. Now c'mon." I led her to a nearby sofa. Once we were seated, I turned to her and said, "I've gotta ask you something."
"What?"
"When you were staying there, did you sleep naked?"
Chapter 69
"What?" She blinked over at me. "When I was house-sitting? No. I wore shorts and stuff. Why?"
"How about in the bathroom?" I asked. "Were you ever naked there?"
She gave me an odd look. "Well, Idoshower naked, in case you haven't noticed."
Oh, I noticed, alright. I just didn't want anyone else to notice. "In which bathroom?" I asked.
"Over there?" she said. "I used the guest bath. Why?"
Again, I dodged the question. "Not the master bath?"
She shook her head. "No. Never."
That house had four bathrooms. By far, the master bathroom was the nicest. "Never?" I persisted. "Not even once?"
"No. Not even once."
I didn't get it. "Why not?"
"Because, it was part of their master bedroom," she explained. "I considered it off-limits."
"They told you that?" I didn't see their logic. I mean, why would anyone put a spy-camera in a bathroom that was off-limits?
But Chloe was shaking her head. "They didn'tsaythat I couldn’t. It just seemed disrespectful, you know?"
I did know. She took that job seriously,soseriously that until today, she'd refused to let me inside the place. Funny to think, it was that same quality that kept her from being filmed on the toilet.
Chloe was studying my face. "Why are you asking?"
I didn't want to tell her, but she deserved to know. "Because I found a camera."
"What?" She sat up straighter. "You're kidding. In the bathroom?"
"In themasterbathroom," I clarified. "No other ones."
"You sure?"
I nodded. "A hundred percent."
