Free The Madison Files (Vol. 4 - Case Closed) by Emma Brown

Trent decided that it wouldn’t be safe for Madison to stay alone at her house. Now with the proof that Liam was involved and her past with him, she seemed vulnerable, even if she was at as much of a loss as the rest of them. Knowing now that Liam hadn’t been all he seemed to be made Trent think the man was capable of anything.
     
    And the last person he wanted to see hurt was Madison. He’d already admitted to liking her and hoped all of his implications showed it was more than just a friend-to-friend or, still even deep, partner-to-partner relationship they were forming. Then there was the promise they could try for more once Liam was caught, once Madison fully got her closure, and he knew they would end up getting him in the end.
     
    But he’d offered to stay at her place for the night, and as many night as needed until they caught the man. He didn’t think it would take long, but they had to find what his cover was now and how to get to it. He’d explained it all to her in his proposition to stay over, and to his relief, she’d agreed without hesitation.
     
    He made sure she slept, but he himself stayed up. He’d borrowed one of the company computers and used what limited resources he could without having the company network. It wasn’t much that he found, but it was enough to get him started on a few leads. There was a law firm with a Liam Amsel listed, but the site wasn’t accessible to the public. He figured they could start there, ask to see the man. If it was the Liam they were after, however, he had a rather good out by working for a law firm.
     
    It amused him as he saw the break of light flood through the uncovered windows of the guest bedroom. He decided then that it was time to close the computer and perhaps find something to eat. Somewhere in that time, apparently, Madison awoke, as she was in the kitchen pulling out ingredients and getting ready some coffee. He smirked a little and took a seat at the peninsula. “Morning there,” he greeted. She smiled some but didn’t turn around. Instead, she poured some coffee grounds into a coffee filter. She placed them in the coffee maker.
     
    “Morning,” she responded. She finally turned to face him. “I noticed you didn’t sleep last night, or you were up earlier than the birds,” she stated. He paused, his brows raising slightly before he chuckled a bit more.
     
    “No sleep,” he answered. His amusement faded and he looked to the ingredients she’d pulled out. “I wanted to do the best I could to find information for us.” She paused before turning to face her ingredients. He could have sworn he noticed a slight tremble in her hands as she reached for the cheese, but decided it best to press on with what he had anyway. As harsh as it was, she was going to have to deal with what was to come. “He works for a law firm now, so he’ll be easy to find but hard to bring in, more so than Jasper.”
     
    It had actually been quite the other way in terms of finding Jasper. He was hard to find, a slippery snake, and even once in their grasp, he had a way out and fled, disappearing into some hidden hole. Liam, on the other hand, was right there in the open, like a British commander in the revolutionary war, parading himself out there for everyone to see with the temptation of bringing him down.
     
    But there was the difficulty that the situation brought. Unlike the colonists, they couldn’t just shoot and break the current rules of war. They had to, instead, find a way through the law to bring him in.
     
    “A lawyer?” Madison asked, obviously surprised by the answer. “Where did he get training in law?” She supposed, after she said it, that it was a stupid question. There was too much she didn’t know about him, despite having thought the only person she knew better than him was herself. It almost all made her question her knowledge of herself. Under normal circumstances, she never would have gotten caught up with a man like him.
     
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