“You have more than one?”
He pursed his lips but said nothing for a moment. She knew he was trying to get hold of his temper.
“Anything going on here?”
“Naw. They should have sufficient security in place by the end of the week. Jakob wants us to do the background checks since the last one showed up naked in his dressing room.”
“Jesus. I hadn’t heard that.”
He chuckled. “The best part was that Lani was the one who found her. I don’t think that woman will be doing anything like that ever again.”
Lani Kingston-Wulf was Hawaiian born and tough. She could just imagine how the woman reacted.
They watched the scene being filmed, which she barely paid attention to. Instead, she kept an eye on the people surrounding the actors as they worked through their scene. And, of course, she was thinking about Green’s murder. The man wasn’t anyone who was in the know about things going on. Yes, he was an agent, but she knew the only reason he had the job was that he was a legacy. His uncle had been a section chief.
Ian tapped her arm and motioned with his head to a small area away from the filming. She followed him.
“What’s up?”
“What do you mean?”
“You’re thinking about something else.”
“I can do my job, Ian.”
“I wasn’t saying you couldn’t. I just know something else is going on. I know you had to multitask in your former career because you actually had two jobs.”
Now that she was outed, everyone knew that her job with her family’s business was a cover. It didn’t mean that she didn’t have work to do, tedious office work that often made her want to scream. Eden still had to do it.
“Well, it has nothing to do with this job, so don’t worry about it.”
He studied her for a moment. He was one of those kinds of guys who had women turning their heads as they walked past him. The movie star looks caught their attention, but this look now would scare the hell out of any woman who thought he would be a fun guy.
“Stop looking at me like I’m a suspect.”
His mouth twitched. They worked together well because they understood that digging around in their pasts wasn’t something their partner should do.
Maybe that was changing. If so, she would need a new partner, and she hated that. She and Ian had the same work ethic.
“It has to do with this guy having your phone number. Did you know him well?”
She shrugged. “Not that well. I mean, we knew each other because we worked in the same region, but not that well.”
“So not a former lover?”
She snorted, then sobered. “No. I was involved with one man the four years I worked in the Middle East for obvious reasons.”
Ian nodded, understanding filling his eyes. It was easier when you were undercover and not the public face of your family’s business. Or at least, she thought it might be. She had never lived that way. Ever.
“I know that it isn’t easy to deal with being in the limelight either at large or just in the organization.”
Ian had also grown up the way she had. Her father was a legend in MI-6. Both of them had dealt with expectations from their parents and the organization as a whole. It was a lot to deal with, but at least she had El. Until his father had found out that Autumn was actually his daughter, Ian had grown up with no siblings.
She nodded. “Anyway, I didn’t know him that well. He had the same monitoring agent, of course.”
“Does he have anything to do with that O’Malley who was murdered?”
For a second, she felt her breath freeze in her lungs. “Hmm? O’Malley?”
