Page 76 of Her Hidden Smile

Lisa and I burst out laughing.

“We’ve found him,” Simon said after I answered my cell phone.

The lump in my stomach that had been churning since the night someone had tried to break into Millie’s house, started to dissipate.

“Where is he?”

“He really is an idiot. He’s been living in his aunt’s shed. Seriously, we could have just followed the ding-dong and ho-ho wrappers instead of doing any real sleuthing.”

I chuckled.

“Can you do me another favor?”

“What?”

“Harvey and I have this bet going on. Junior is always in front of his work computer when we go in to see him. Harvey thinks he’s reading Outdoor Life, I say he’s surfing porn. Anyway, you can let us know who’s right.”

“Oh, you win on that one. We checked his work and home computer. Nothing but porn. Another thing of interest is that he has downloaded every picture of Tina Sadowski that there is.”

“Tina?”

“Yep.”

“Hmm.”

“So you don’t know what that’s about?” Simon asked me.

“Not a damn clue. Where’s Junior now?”

“I’ve got him at our second office. We have a cabin further out than the one that I’m renting to you. Nice and quiet. A perfect place for people to stop and contemplate life.”

I chuckled. “Give me the coordinates. After I talk to Harvey, I’ll be there.”

Simon gave me the coordinates and I promised to see him in a couple of hours.

I was standing in Harvey’s study when he called out for his daughter. I’d worried that they weren’t going to be doing well after Harvey had to lay down the law about her would-be fiancé. It turned out that she was doing fine.

Simon and Roan did a background check at Harvey’s request and found that Tina’s boyfriend had three failed businesses behind him, his car was about ready to be repossessed, and his house was in foreclosure. Not a stellar candidate for a future son-in-law as far as Harvey was concerned. But Tina didn’t seem to care.

However, she did care when he explained that Roy’s extensive collection of Japanese sex dolls were also going to be auctioned off. He explained that some of them had been purchased for more than ten thousand dollars. At that point Tina was more than happy to scrape him off.

“You wanted to see me?” Tina said as she sauntered into her father’s study. She gave me quite the onceover, then licked her lips. Seriously, Harvey should have just let her marry Roy.

“Yeah, Renzo and I were wondering why Wylie Junior might have a bunch of your pictures downloaded onto his computer.”

“Ewww. Junior? That oaf? I can’t stand him. He followed me around for three months after Jessica’s wedding. I couldn’t pry him loose to save my life. I swear he took stalker classes.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Harvey asked.

“Because I knew you would go ballistic. I had Cousin Forrest take care of it.”

“What did he do?”

“Well, that’s the thing, Daddy. I’m not really sure. But now, every time Junior sees me in the store or on the sidewalk, he turns around and walks the other way.”

“I always did like Amalie’s boy. Got to give him a good bottle of bourbon for that.”

“Is that all you needed me for?”