CHAPTER EIGHT
“Grant called you again?” Penelope turned from her desk the next day.
“He was watching me again too.” Alexis searched her computer files, checking police records to see if Divina Develin was clean. “Just sitting on the street like he owns it.”
“He does, remember?”
“He’s gone too far this time.” Alexis popped a mint in her mouth. “He’s trying to distract me so I’ll have my mind on him and not on Nolan.”
Penelope put her reading glasses on and looked through her drawer. “He has the hots for you.”
Alexis dry heaved. “I’m about to throw up all over this desk and you’re going to clean it up.”
“He wants you.”
“Yeah, to keep me distracted.” Alexis sat back, rolling her eyes. “Why would Grant Copeland want me?”
“You’re a beautiful, sexy woman.” Penelope pulled papers from th
