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open the door.  It was a protocol we put in place just in case people who don’t need to know are in his office.
    After about five minutes, the door opened.  DL looked annoyed.  “Sorry, Janice was in here complaining someone was stealing her food from the break room fridge.”
    I couldn’t even imagine running a company like this.  “Sounds like an issue above my pay grade.”
    “Did you find anything out?”
    I handed him the police report.  “On the same night you guys were dealing with Diamonds, there was an alarm that went off at Pacific National.  Nothing was stolen and the cops said it was probably bad wiring.”
    Even though I summed it up for him, he still read on, slowly.  “I’m guessing you think Clubs had something to do with this.”
    “A computer genius and an engineer?  Yeah, he could pull this off with no problems.”
    DL closed the file and handed it back.  “I think we have some expense checks that need to be cashed.  Go to Financing, get them, and head over to Pacific National.  See if you can figure some of this out.”
    I dropped into one of his chairs.  “Whoa whoa whoa!  I’m the behind the scenes guy in this team, not the investigator!”
    “You’re the only person I trust with this.  As the CEO of a multimillion dollar company, people would think it’s weird I show up to drop off checks and make small talk.”
    Damnit!  I hated when he used logic and even more when it worked.  “Fine, but don’t I need to take someone else with me since we’re talking about money?”
    He hadn’t thought of that.  “Take Adams with you.  Since the two of you hooked up last night, let’s make things incredibly awkward.”
    He was on fire with burns today.  “You’re an asshole, you know that?”
    “I’ve been called worse by better.”
    I grumbled to myself all the way from his office, to Finance, and then down to legal.  When I explained what DL had tasked me to do with Heather, she was all about coming.
    “Are you kidding?  I’m hung-over and Janice is being a royal bitch today.  She’s all wound up because someone ate her egg, bacon, and cheese bagel this morning.”
    Heather’s breath smelled just like egg, bacon, and cheese.  “I don’t think it’ll take a rocket scientist to figure that out.”
    “Shut up and let’s go.”
    As we drove, we discovered that we shared a lot of the same interests.  She liked classic rock, horror movies, and ice hockey.  Sitting there talking, I couldn’t help but notice even dressed down in jeans and toned down make-up, she was a knockout.
    And then at a red light, I couldn’t stop myself.  “Heather, you’re beautiful.”
    “Oh my God!”
    My face turned from pallid white to burning red.  “Oh damnit, I shouldn’t have said that!  I’m sorry!”
    For the second time today, sober, she kissed me.  Right there as we were sitting in traffic.  The kiss was only broken when the car behind us laid on their horn.  I raised my hand in apology and hit the accelerator.
    “Jericho, that was the sweetest thing anyone’s ever said to me.”
    That surprised me.  “Really?”
    “I get Heather, you’re so hot or I’d totally hit that!  But no guy’s ever just called me beautiful and meant it just like you did.”
    “I’m just telling you the truth.”
    She put her hand on my leg.  “I’m not going to lie, last night was just supposed to be fun with someone I trusted.  However, you keep this up and you’ll be keeping me around a lot longer.”
    I gave a nervous half laugh.  “I wouldn’t mind that at all.”
    “Good, now let’s get these checks cashed!  I’m getting hungry and I feel like Mr. Wonderton can pay for our lunch after we finish this!”
    Oh man, DL was going to kill me, but it’d be totally worth it…

Chapter 6 –
Friday Midmorning; Pacific National Bank
     
    I gave the teller the checks to deposit.  She said it’d take a few minutes, so while we were waiting I opened up with some small