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“Well what if I asked someone who is to get if for me?”
“Like who?” Where was she going with this ?
“Chandra. She’s a cop. Can’t she get it?”
“It doesn’t work that way sweetheart.” Shit! He didn’t mean to call her that. Keep it professional Jason! “No one can just legally grab evidence without probable cause. Considering that fact that her death was not ruled a homicide there isn’t any. Your father would even have to contact the D.A.’s office and have them make a formal request for it but that probably wouldn’t do any good either. I’m afraid you’re up a creek here Amour.”
“Yeah, my father said he’d already tried and failed back then. He told me just to let it go.”
“There you have it. Maybe you should take him up on his advice. You’re in way over your head here.”
“No. I’ve come this far, I have to finish what I started. I understand if you’ve got your doubts and you’ve decided to change your mind about helping me but I have to keep going. There has to be a way to get that information and I intend to find it.”
He took in a deep breath and then slowly exhaled. He could see that she was relentless and was clearly not going to give up on this. He leaned closer to her and spoke in a low voice so that no one could hear him. “There is a way you can get what you need.”
“How?”
“You may be on to something with Chandra.”
“But I thought you said she wasn’t able to.”
He raised an eyebrow. “No I said she couldn’t l egally get it without probable cause. We could ask her anyway.”
“Do you think she would do it? She would be majorly risking her job. I don’t want anyone to get into trouble. If I do, so be it but I don’t want to ruin anyone else’s life behind this.”
“Well, she can always say no and we won’t pressure her if she does but if I get Mack to ask her, she’ll definitely do it. She’s so ridiculously in love with him she’ll do anything he asks if she thinks it will get her closer to being with him.”
“Isn’t she already with him?” she asked.
“Not really. They sleep together, he takes her out from time to time but that’s about it. He cares about her as a friend but he’s nowhere near as serious about her as she is about him. Believe me; she’d do anything to change that.”
She bit her bottom lip and then released it. “Ok, let’s do it.”
CHAPTER 6
The plan to get Mack to ask Chandra to help them out was a successful one. He’d agreed to it and so had she. After two weeks of making calls, searching the internet and one unproductive day in Los Angeles, Amour had to admit to herself that she had thoughts of granting her father’s wish and giving up. But now, there was a plan, be it an illegal one, but a plan all the same. Anxiety hit her like a ton of bricks as she and Jason headed to the diner where Chandra and Mack had said to meet them. The French toast she ate for breakfast started to rumble in her stomach making her instantly queasy.
“Are you okay?” Jason asked.
“What?” She barely comprehended what he’d said. Her mind was in a million places right now.
“You’re holding your stomach and you don’t look so well. Are you sick?”
“No, I’m just a little nervous. This is the kind of help I’d hoped for going into this but now that I’ve gotten it, I’m just a little anxious that’s all.”
“We can forget the whole thing if you want; that’s perfectly fine Amour. Believe me, as a bodyguard as well as a private investigator, I provide people with a lot of information that they wish they hadn’t found out. Sometimes wanting to know certain things sound good until you’ve actually accomplished that. Then you realize that you were better off not knowing.”
Her stomach muscles clenched. Did she really want to know? Ninety percent of her said yes but the other ten percent of her was unsure. What if her mother was actually murdered? How would she handle that? More
“Like who?” Where was she going with this ?
“Chandra. She’s a cop. Can’t she get it?”
“It doesn’t work that way sweetheart.” Shit! He didn’t mean to call her that. Keep it professional Jason! “No one can just legally grab evidence without probable cause. Considering that fact that her death was not ruled a homicide there isn’t any. Your father would even have to contact the D.A.’s office and have them make a formal request for it but that probably wouldn’t do any good either. I’m afraid you’re up a creek here Amour.”
“Yeah, my father said he’d already tried and failed back then. He told me just to let it go.”
“There you have it. Maybe you should take him up on his advice. You’re in way over your head here.”
“No. I’ve come this far, I have to finish what I started. I understand if you’ve got your doubts and you’ve decided to change your mind about helping me but I have to keep going. There has to be a way to get that information and I intend to find it.”
He took in a deep breath and then slowly exhaled. He could see that she was relentless and was clearly not going to give up on this. He leaned closer to her and spoke in a low voice so that no one could hear him. “There is a way you can get what you need.”
“How?”
“You may be on to something with Chandra.”
“But I thought you said she wasn’t able to.”
He raised an eyebrow. “No I said she couldn’t l egally get it without probable cause. We could ask her anyway.”
“Do you think she would do it? She would be majorly risking her job. I don’t want anyone to get into trouble. If I do, so be it but I don’t want to ruin anyone else’s life behind this.”
“Well, she can always say no and we won’t pressure her if she does but if I get Mack to ask her, she’ll definitely do it. She’s so ridiculously in love with him she’ll do anything he asks if she thinks it will get her closer to being with him.”
“Isn’t she already with him?” she asked.
“Not really. They sleep together, he takes her out from time to time but that’s about it. He cares about her as a friend but he’s nowhere near as serious about her as she is about him. Believe me; she’d do anything to change that.”
She bit her bottom lip and then released it. “Ok, let’s do it.”
CHAPTER 6
The plan to get Mack to ask Chandra to help them out was a successful one. He’d agreed to it and so had she. After two weeks of making calls, searching the internet and one unproductive day in Los Angeles, Amour had to admit to herself that she had thoughts of granting her father’s wish and giving up. But now, there was a plan, be it an illegal one, but a plan all the same. Anxiety hit her like a ton of bricks as she and Jason headed to the diner where Chandra and Mack had said to meet them. The French toast she ate for breakfast started to rumble in her stomach making her instantly queasy.
“Are you okay?” Jason asked.
“What?” She barely comprehended what he’d said. Her mind was in a million places right now.
“You’re holding your stomach and you don’t look so well. Are you sick?”
“No, I’m just a little nervous. This is the kind of help I’d hoped for going into this but now that I’ve gotten it, I’m just a little anxious that’s all.”
“We can forget the whole thing if you want; that’s perfectly fine Amour. Believe me, as a bodyguard as well as a private investigator, I provide people with a lot of information that they wish they hadn’t found out. Sometimes wanting to know certain things sound good until you’ve actually accomplished that. Then you realize that you were better off not knowing.”
Her stomach muscles clenched. Did she really want to know? Ninety percent of her said yes but the other ten percent of her was unsure. What if her mother was actually murdered? How would she handle that? More
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