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All of the information on her was the basic stuff, she came from a good family, was one of the top kids in her class and married Ty right out of high school. It read like the perfect life but I knew there was no such thing.

Everyone had secrets that they tried to hide. It was finding out where they were that was the hard part. When I came across their marriage certificate, I had to cover it with another piece of paper, I couldn’t bear to look at it.

Was it childish? Probably. It was better than burning it though, which is what I really wanted to do.

I carried on reading her file, noting all of the charities that she had worked for since Ty had left her. She’d been all around the world helping these charities and I kind of hated her for that.

The more I read, the more I started to doubt myself. Maybe I had imagined the look in her eyes?

Maybe it was jealously.

My thoughts were whirling in my head, and it didn’t ease up any by the time Ty came back.

“Kay?” he asked, coming to stand next to me. “What are you doing?”

I tilted my head right back and looked at him upside down. “Just looking through these. Seeing if I can find something that we might have missed.”

He nodded and held his hand out to me. “Ready for the meeting?”

I turned around, pushing all the papers back a little and making sure that I didn’t step on any of them. Placing my hand in his so he could help me up.

He wrapped his arms around me, a soft smile on his face. His brown eyes swirled with so many emotions that I couldn’t pick one, he looked torn, like something was really bothering him.

“Ty?” I lifted my hand to his face, the scruff rough on the pads of my fingers. “You okay?”

Dipping down, he pressed his lips to mine. His tongue swiped along my bottom lip and I opened up, leaning closer as his tongue caressed mine. His arms tightened around me as he deepened the kiss, our chests bouncing off each other as our breathing deepened.

Pulling away, he leaned his forehead against mine. “Yeah, I’m good now.” Chuckling, I pulled back and tapped him on the chest.

Grabbing my hand, he led me into the main part of the warehouse and pulled my chair out for me.

Once we were sat down, he told us everything that he had heard, none of it meaning much apart from Daley’s phone call when Serena had left the room.

“Why has he got protection?” Kitty frowned. “He must think something is about to go down.”

Ty nodded and blew out a big breath.

“We need to look into Daley more. I want him watched every hour of the day.” Looking to Luke and Kitty, he said, “You two are on night duty. I want to know everything that goes on with him, phone calls, where he goes. Everything.”

“When do you want us to start?” Luke asked.

“Tonight.” They nodded at him in reply.

“Me and Kay will take the day shift.” Ty looked at me, asking me with his eyes if that was okay.

“How long will the shifts be?” I asked. However, as much as I wanted to do a full shift, I still needed to think of Eli.

I wanted to be a part of the team and I wanted to be doing the same thing as everyone else, but I still had to think about Eli. Sure, things were much better now that we lived at the compound but that didn’t mean I was going to be any less of a mom. I still wanted us to have time, just me and him. It was too easy to have one of the guys watch over him.

I had to make sure that I didn’t get too caught up in work or Ty.

“Ah, shit.” He hung his head, tapping his fingers on the table, realizing what I meant without having to say anything.

“Does it need to be two at a time?” Kitty asked. “If we’re just watching and waiting, then we could split it into four shifts.”

“No, Kay can’t be on her own-”

“Good idea,” I said, interrupting Ty before he said what I thought he was about to. There was no way that he was going to make special precautions just for me.