Free Loving Night: Dream Catcher Series ~ Book 2 by Brynette L. Turner Page B

information coming from the surveillance feeds that Chris set
up.” With so many electronics already in a confined area, the extra wireless
signal will most likely go undetected.
    “Good idea. Keep in touch.” As was
Roy’s habit, he ended the call the moment he determined the conversation was
over.
    Three days later, Chaz was sitting
at the monitors, taking notes while Sydney took a break. He saw what he had
been dreading. Damien Granger was giving Paul Watkins a personal tour of all
floors in the converted office building. Obviously, Watkins was the person
Granger wanted to impress. Had he been ordered by his bosses in the Travis
family to accommodate Watkins or was this going to be another of Watkins’ hostile
takeover efforts? Vanessa had said Granger had a lot going on in Louisville;
was he intending to turn over the brothel to Watkins all along? Either way, the
man was a long way from Chicago. How could he oversee a business so far from
his territory? And why was he suddenly interested in prostitution when none of
the FBI offices had connected him with it previously?
    The last thing Chaz wanted was to
once again be in a position where the decision must be made whether to deepen
the investigation to add Watkins as a target. He didn’t want to get wrapped up
in a more complex case. He only wanted to document the establishing of the
brothel, close it down, file federal charges, and go home to his wife.
    He sighed and stared at the
monitors. He still wasn’t sure about Austin’s reliability. It would be
interesting to see how he explained this meeting between the two crime bosses.
    That next morning, Chaz spoke with
Stephanie before she left for work. They talked about the pregnancy and a
project she was working on. He needed that moment of normal to ground him.
     
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    Phailin listened carefully to her
friend, observing what she said and the way her body and spirit engaged in the
discussion. Karen had been right in saying that Stephanie’s auras had changed. Even
since their recent dinner together, the green field surrounding her had,
indeed, become more dominant, but only slightly. The blues and violets were
still strong. Yet, instead of being mostly spiritual, she was fairly evenly
divided in her personality traits. Like her husband, whose most prominent aura
color was green, the beautiful brunette was now more inclined toward creating
order and maintaining harmony.
    “What does that mean for my
relationship with Chaz?” Stephanie asked over the rim of her cup of tea.
    “It means you are more than just
his spiritual rock. Rather than contrasting to balance him, you are now
strongly aligned with his best traits. You probably think more like him than
you ever have, and in that commonality is the new way of finding strength.” She
pushed aside the remaining tortellini on her plate in favor of the sautéed
broccoli.
    Stephanie was silent for a long
time before asking whether or not that meant her gift was being dominated by Chaz’s
aura, because she certainly didn’t feel that way. Phailin laughed.
    “I don’t think it’s possible for
him to dominate you. In fact, to hurt you would mean destroying himself. He is
so devoted that wherever there is a choice, he will always choose you. To the
world, he appears in total control of all areas of his life. The reality is
that his love for you influences everything he does. The fact that your aura is
becoming more like his makes for an even clearer connection. This is why his
best friend resents you; Sylvia thinks that you’ve made Chaz weak when the
truth is that making you happy has brought him a level of completeness that she
can’t comprehend. In that way, you have always been the stronger of the two.”
    “You mean spiritually, right?”
    “Isn’t all true strength built on
our connection to our spiritual identity and acceptance of destiny?”  She
reached across the table to rest her hand on top of the other woman’s. “Chaz is
growing more