Family Bonds- Ava and Seth (Amore Island Book 5), Natalie Ann [world of reading TXT] 📗

And Griffin did say he’s had someone watching me for a bit. Guess my father asked him without my knowledge.”

“And you’re pissed about that?” he asked but was glad her family was doing something. Of course, that meant they knew everything Ava and he were doing and he wasn’t sure he liked that.

“Not really. I understand it’s out of love. It’s not like it was nonstop and more just the first month back in Plymouth. When I moved here they had someone watching me for a few weeks and there was nothing. If I was at your place or work, the person wasn’t watching. It’s not like you think.”

“I’m not sure what to think,” he said.

“I wasn’t either, but the bottom line is the guy worked for Griffin and Griffin said there was nothing out of the ordinary. Not at all.”

“Maybe they should have been watching your house and they would have seen this,” he said, getting worked up again.

“Enough, Seth. I understand your frustration. I’m feeling it too. I don’t want to get any more scared and nervous than I am. I can’t focus and do my job if I am. I feel like I’ve done a good job of compartmentalizing everything in my life and then I come home on Sunday to see that. And you’re ticked I didn’t call you that night, but by the time everyone left and I got to my brother’s it was past ten. Too late to call. Monday I was swamped with work but called you when I could.”

He knew that and had to accept it. “I know. I just worry.”

“And you don’t need something else to worry about in your life. I’ll be fine. Trust me.”

25

Lost Any Privacy

“How did it go with Seth?” Carson asked her when she got home hours later.

She’d been running errands all day, then picked up food and was going to start on dinner for her brothers. She didn’t think Carson would be home already. “What are you doing here?” It was barely five.

“I got out at four because I’m on call, but came in about twenty minutes ago myself.”

Since he was in shorts and a T-shirt she figured he’d showered already. They all did when they got home from work. Another quirk about getting all the germs off of them from being in the medical field.

“It was fine. He’s not happy and wants me to stay with him. I told him no, that I wouldn’t put him or Adele at risk.”

Carson frowned at her. “What risk are you talking about? What aren’t you telling us? Dad said there is no one watching or following you. The fact someone was in your house is pissing us all off.”

“First off, there is no risk. Not that anyone is telling me or Dad. So don’t get me going there. I’m still not happy he had me watched and I knew nothing about it. Second of all, we are assuming the same person did the identity theft and we’ve got no reason to think that. Griffin called when I was at lunch with Seth and said he can’t get a hit on the prints and it’s only partial smudges but small enough to be a woman or small man.”

“Are they still looking?” he asked.

“I’m assuming that. Griffin is setting the system up on Friday. Drew is letting him in, then they will show me how to use it when I get out of work. I don’t think what they are putting in is needed. But it’s Drew’s money. Seth said he had a system in his house too for me to go there.”

“You didn’t know that?” he asked.

“I never paid attention. I go in the front door and didn’t see it there. My guess is it’s by the garage where he might enter instead. I’ve never noticed any cameras either.”

“Then it’s a good system if you can’t,” Carson said.

“Whatever. This whole thing is driving me insane. I don’t need to be watched either. Aren’t we watched enough being in the Bond family? Things seemed to be going so well with Seth and now he’s annoyed because I didn’t call him right away and he wants me there. I’ve got you and Hudson and Dad watching everything and talking to people behind my back. They say identity theft is a victimless crime, but they are wrong. I’ve lost any privacy I had,” she said starting to sniffle a little. “And now you all think this person has been in my house when it could just be a nosy person on the island.” At least that was what she was trying to convince herself of.

“Hey, sorry. We are only watching out for you. This isn’t your fault and we know it.”

“Hailey made me feel naive for not locking things down and allowing this to happen. Do you?”

“No. I didn’t before but do now. So don’t feel silly. There are things in this world that many of us never think of. This is one of them. No one thinks it’s going to happen to them or on Amore Island. Sure, we’ve all had our credit cards canceled because someone tried to use them, but that is different than what happened to you.”

“I don’t know how or where it could have occurred. I’m so careful about my social security number and all that information. I never put it on the computer or anywhere. I don’t carry it with me; it was always locked up in the safe at home. It doesn’t make sense to me how someone got it unless there was a hack into another credit card company or something that had my information. But you’d think we would know about that.”

“They are supposed to notify you of any breach. Any place is, but it doesn’t always happen timely. Maybe it’s nothing more than that,” he said.

“I don’t know. I’m trying not to focus on it too much because it upsets me. Things will get better, I know it. I’m not