Prologue

Gabriel Prescott had just finished setting up another security system when his phone went off. He looked down at it. One of his other accounts had gone down. He packed up his stuff and went to go find the owner of the house.

"Hey, Jack the system's ready to go. Here's the code to get in." Gabriel handed him a piece of paper. "Destroy that after you memorize it. I can only secure the house against people that don't have the code."

"Thanks, Gabe."

"See if you still say that after I mail you the bill."

Jack smiled at him. "I'm sure that it'll be worth it."

Gabriel waved good-bye as he walked out the front door. He made his way to his car and started up the engine. He yanked his cell phone off of his belt and dialed back to the office.

"What's happening?"

"It appears that Miss. Lindsay White is having a problem with her security and she would like someone to look at it. Said something about it acting up. Figured you'd like to do that yourself seeing as she's a one of the high paying clients." Josh stated in his no nonsense tone.

"Thanks give me the address and I'll stop by on my home."

"Yes sir. It's over on Dunworth the old mansion at the end of the block; you'll remember it when you see it. I'll leave the potential client files on your desk so you can look them over tomorrow."

"All right thanks Josh."

"That's what you pay me for, sir."

Josh is a young kid that had just gotten out of college and therefore 'sirs' every one. Gabriel had tried to get him to stop but since the kid was so efficient in keeping the office running when he wasn't there he let it go.

As he drove over to Dunworth he thought about his investigation in to his father's disappearance. So far he wasn't much further than when he had started, he did have the ledger that Devlin Fitzwilliam had been given. But other than that he still had no idea why Manly had destroyed his own company. He still didn't know why Manly had stolen the money out of his company or where he went with it afterwards. He still hadn't been able to trace Manly and that definitely stuck in his craw. Both Manly and the money had disappeared.

The only thing that he had been able to get some leeway on was Manly's sons. While he was now on a somewhat friendly association with Nathan Manly the only legitimate, he had met other illegitimate Manly sons like himself. He was surprised at the different array of half brothers that he had found by searching for Manly. The Italian Count Roberto Bartolini, the southern outcast Devlin Fitzwilliam, and the Bank tycoon Mac MacNaught.

Gabriel realized that his car had been stopped he looked up and found himself at his destination. He looked up at the massive house that he knew only contained one occupant. The house was a two-story place with a huge wraparound porch on the first floor. He pulled in to the driveway and parked in front of the door. He got in the drizzly rainy and quickly made his way to the door. Before he could hit the doorbell the door flew open.

"Who the hell are you?" A short curvy little woman asked him. This woman had to be 5'5", a good eight inches shorter then Gabriel. He looked down at her studying her. She was standing in the doorway with her hands on her hips glaring up at him.

"Well?" She said impatiently.

"Gabriel Prescott I'm in charge of Prescott Securities. You called to say there was a glitch in your system.

Lindsay stood there looking at the blond God that was standing in front of her.

"Oh good, the green on light keeps switching back to off I was hoping you could fix it. But I think it is time for an upgrade anyways, I didn't think that you'd come tonight, but hey I'm not doing anything. Unless you are?"

"This is my last stop for today."

"Oh good. So you'll look at it then?"

"Yes."

"Terrific, go ahead and do whatever needs to be done." Lindsay left him to look at the security box next to the door.

Gabriel looked at the security panel that was installed near the door. Fixing the light was easy he put in a new one the old one was probably just burning out. He had to go back out to the car to get the upgrade equipment, it wouldn't take long to upgrade. He hooked up her security to his computer and started the download process. He looked around the hall and into the living room. She had some pretty classy stuff; it was no wonder that she was worried about keeping them hers.

"You need anything?" Gabriel started; he hadn't heard her at all.

"Nope I should have everything I need. I just need to tweak a couple of things. There isn't much to do to this to make it up to date; it seems you update it regularly." Which was weird, sure his own security system was up to date but hers barely had anything to update.

"Yes, I try to keep up with it."

Lindsay made her way in to the living room to see what he had been looking at. Lindsay had made her living as a thief before her retirement in to normaldom and boy was it boring. It lacked the thrill that stealing had given her, having to do things by the rules wasn't all it had cracked up to be.

She tried to keep her two lives completely separate. She looked back over to where Prescott was upgrading her security damn he was fine.

"Mr. Prescott?"

"Umm?" Gabriel was almost finished with his upgrades.

"Are you married? Seeing anybody?" Lindsay watched as Gabriel's head whipped around.

"No." Gabriel went back to his work trying to ignore the short little lady that looked like she was all legs.

"How about a date?"

"You want to go on a date?"

"Sure, when?"

"I can't. I don't date clients."

"Aww that's too bad, we could have had a lot of fun."

"It's all finished. The bill will be in the mail." Gabriel was packing up his gear getting ready to go. This wasn't the first time that a client had hit on him but it was the first one that he wanted to break his moral rules for.

"I'll bring the check in personally then; maybe I'll see you when I drop by with it."

"Most unlikely." Gabriel nodded his head in good-bye and opened the door. Lindsay watched him get into his car and pull out of her driveway. She went back into the house rearming the system. It wouldn't do to have some thief try to steal her stolen items.

Lindsay went over to her security and looked in over and began to plan. If she was going to get with Prescott she was going to have to get his attention first. The only way to do that would be through his work; she was going to have to come out of retirement. This is going to be fun. Looking over her security she immediately began to see the holes in it; if there were holes in her own then there would definitely be the same holes in his other security systems. Just to make sure she hadn't gotten too rusty she would have to do a test run on her own.

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