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then deleted. I need you to find if anything suspicious
is happening within these four walls. Look through the bookings or request logs
and see if you find anything that looks dodgy, then I need you to set up
firewalls, new passwords and any other security on my internal tech stuff.”
    “That’s all fine but I need something to work with Mason,
anything you can tell me that will help my search and what it is I’m even
looking for.”
     
    I debated how much to tell him. Lucas’s wife and my best
friend, Layla, was close to Ava and if this got back to her, my marriage was
over.
    “You don’t need to know anymore. Just anything that pops
out as unusual or something repetitive that doesn’t seem right.”
    He sighed heavily and rolled his eyes but nodded, “Fine,
but cos’ I don’t exactly know what to look for it could take a while.”
    I nodded, “That’s fine, Nate knows I have you here and
he’s good with it. For some reason he says he has a new tech guy going in for a
few weeks so he doesn’t need you.”
    Lucas frowned and pursed his lips, “That must be why
Kade’s in then.”
    “What?”
    He frowned at me. “Didn’t Ava tell you? Kade’s in, that’s
why she’s resigned.”
    What the fuck!
     
    I didn’t give him chance to say anymore, I was out of the
door and climbing into my car within the minute.
    My wife had some serious explaining to do.

Chapter 4
Ava
          “Perfect” Owen smiled proudly at me as Courtney clapped from where she
was propped up at the bar in The Black Panther, hiccupping with a smile after
taste testing my many attempts at various cocktails. “You see, Ava, you got the
hang of it. You’ll mostly be waiting tables but it will help if you can serve
as well.”
    I nodded happily and smiled as William approached us with
an equally wide smile. “Ava, sweetheart, you do know the uniform is compulsory don’t
you?”
    I nodded and grinned with excitement as William held up a
Black Panther uniform in my size. “And Mason will be okay with you wearing
this?” he asked sceptically. He knew my husband inside out.
    I shrugged, “I need the job William, so…”
    He grimaced but nodded. “I’ll let you tell him then” he laughed
and I smirked at his cunning. “Can you start tonight?”
    Mason’s demand bounced around the obedient parts of my
brain but the defiant part smiled in glee, my excitement at my new job pushing
me to accept. “Sure, what time?”
    “6?”
    I nodded happily as I took the uniform from William and
studied it. Mason would freak if he saw me in this. I looked at Courtney, “Can
I come to yours from here?”
    She nodded and clapped her hands. “We haven’t done an
afternoon together for ages.”
    I grinned in return. She was right. I missed my best
friend and our time together but it wasn’t always that easy to find time
together when we both had families.
     
    I needed to sort out childcare on a regular basis and a
thought popped into my head.
    “Kerrie” I greeted Mason’s sister when she answered her
phone.
    “Hey, sweetie” she smiled down the phone.
    “How do you fancy a job? Fulltime.”
    She was silent in her confusion so I filled her in on my
new job and she accepted immediately. “God, I would love to. You know I enjoy
spending time with them.”
    “Can you start today?” I asked hesitantly but she accepted
and told me she would pick Katie and George up from school.
    Perfect.
     
    ***
     
    “Something funny is going off with our men” Courtney said
as she narrowed her eyes in thought and I frowned.
    “What do you mean?”
    “Haven’t you noticed how they’re whispering and hiding
stuff? Mason called an emergency meeting this morning and everybody went
running.”
    My mind wandered back to his scolding when I walked into
his office without knocking.
    “Come to think of it, he did disappear this morning
without telling me and he proper shouted at me for entering his office during a
meeting. He doesn’t usually bother. I