At this point in the story we go back to the point where it all began, before he met and fell in love with Fallon
Jesse had been furious when Cara had given him the assignment. "My training is far to complex for such a mundane assignment, it is a complete waste of my time. Tell the client to hire a private investigator. Our skills are entirely too specialized and I'm not getting involved in some guys paranoia over his cheating girlfriend."
"Ordinarily that is exactly what I would have told them, but we are talking about Randall Tremaine's daughter here. Randall himself vouched for this client and you know he only recommends you. So your stuck with it buddy boy." Cara looked really smug. She was always pleased to be able to annoy him since he had rejected her so thoroughly, even humiliated her. She had such a love/hate relationship with him. Jesse felt absolutely nothing for her. Not hate, not friendship, not any emotion at all. He had hated her at first after she came into his room in the middle of the night when he was only 14 years old, but now she was simply insignificant to him.
Cara was 10 years older than Jesse and had wanted him for herself the first time she saw him when he was only 8 years old. She had been the one to convince her father that Jesse should be brought into their home and trained to perhaps take over leadership some day. She had early on seen how intelligent he was her father only realizing his genius later. Of course she wanted him for his looks, as most of the women over the years had, his intelligence was just another plus for her.
"Great, I'm supposed to watch some spoiled rich debutant to make sure she isn't cheating on her fiancé. What am I, a flunky around here? I'm going to your father and tell him I'm not doing this one."
He stormed out of Cara's office and pushed into Todd Holloway's. "Am I or am I not slated to take over this operation when you retire? If not I'm out of here, you can bet at least half of the compound will follow me if I decide to go. What right does Cara have giving me the most bullshit assignment we have ever gotten?"
"Simmer down Jesse, of course you will take over. I would not consider anyone else; you are the best we have, even better than me for that matter. But you have to understand that Randall Tremaine is one of our top paying clients and we need to keep him happy. He simply refuses to use anyone else except you. You have done such excellent work for him in the past that you have created your own monster. He is very protective of his daughter and he is adamant about her marrying this Cole Yeager. Cole's family is very influential and can really help further his bid for president. He believes you are the only one who can find out for sure if she has any involvement with this guy who lives in her house.
"So if I understand right, I'm supposed to be watching Randall's daughter and some guy that is living in her home to make sure they are not sleeping together. Now I know I'm good, but how in hell am I going to find out anything if these two are already living in the same house. I mean am I going to sneak in at night to keep a watch over them without them knowing I'm there? Is this Cole a complete idiot by allowing the man he suspects of cheating with his girlfriend to live under the same roof with her? What does he really expect of us?"
"It's not entirely like that. Fallon Tremaine inherited this very large home and a fortune from her grandmother. She is probably worth more than her father. Word is she's some kind of philanthropist. She graduated from nursing school but has always volunteered her services rather than taken a paying position as a nurse. She volunteers at some health clinic several days a week and invites some of the patients to live in her home until they can get on their feet and pay for their own housing. Leland was having some financial problems about a year ago; he is a struggling musician. He stumbled into the clinic and Fallon took him under her wing. He has been living in her house ever since. The two of them are very close, and Cole is afraid that she has more feelings for him than she should. He wants you to find out how far their relationship has gone. He is pretty certain there is something going on. He is just not sure what. That is what he is hiring us for."
"As long as you're the one giving me the assignment, not Cara, but it is going to be rather difficult to figure out which room he goes into each night. But don't worry, I'll figure something out. The sooner I can get this assignment over with the better."
"Well, actually you are going to be living in the same house yourself. The guest house is vacant right now and Cole is going to introduce you as his writer friend who needs a place to stay while he is writing an article about life in Seattle. You can use any of the men you think might be necessary to fill in the blank spaces in your surveillance. Cole is going to suggest that Fallon rent the guest house to you until you are finished with your research. That should get you the information you need pretty quick. Cole is paying us a rather large sum for this assignment and Randall Tremaine is behind it 100%. As usual you will receive a nice bonus from Randall on this one.