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A Drastic Change?

Chapter 6

"Hiding Something"

Ranger's POV

I sat intently staring into the frame that I kept on my office desk. It's simple silver borders held a photo of Stephanie with a large smile and eyes shinning brightly on her face. She was in rangeman uniform with one arm resting down by her side while the other at her hip. I remember the moment of the picture was taken. She was watching Tank and me spar with one another (which I obviously won) and I was glad the security camera in the gym got a good angle of her, so I could place the moment in a picture.

Dinner with the client went good business wise, but my babe, something was wrong. It wasn't like her to act like the way she did. She sat there quietly and ate. She ate salad and not a sugar filled dessert but only of fruits, too! Not word unless spoken to and she avoided all eye contact with me, but I caught her glancing up at me a couple of times but just briefly.

My office door opened and Tank stepped in. With a glance at the photo, I placed it back down and walked around my desk and leaned against the desk's edge facing him. It was close to three in the morning.

"Still up man?" he said calmly, opening the deep conversation he wanted on a good friendly leveled voice and not jumping right into the conversation in case I wasn't ready to talk. He is my best friend and so close for years. He was like family, he knew me too well.

"Yea. Just got back in?" I asked in the same leveled tone.

"Yes," we sat silent for a couple of minutes. We both wanted to talk about Steph but waited for the other to do so first.

"Ok man, listen, Steph's back but not the way we expected," Tank said after the long silence, "You know that I went to see Lula after dinner. That's why you're still up at this time. You wanted to know if I found anything out from her." Damn! He's right…grrr… I hate that!

"Maybe," I said with my blank face in place and looked up at him expectantly.

He looked away and rubbed his neck. Bad news, shit… "I don't know what to tell you man," he stared at the floor intently in silence for a couple of seconds, "I think Lula knows something, but," silent pause again, will he please stop pausing and tell me! "she tries to avoid telling me anything about Bombshell. She looks away and starts talking about something else. Blabbering away on anything, even about paper, PAPER! Ranger, she went blabbing on about paper after about the sixth time I tried seeing if she would slip out what she knows about Bomber. Lula can't lie to me, she knows that, but she's hiding something for her. It's weird. Nothing feels right about Bombshell coming back home."

He finally looked back at me and I knew that he hated to tell me any sort of bad news. Hmm, it was strange, Lula, one of the biggest mouths in Trenton actually is keeping a secret and even worse, keeping it from Tank, her 'Teddy Bear.'

"So, she definitely knows something. If she knows something, Steph must have told her and Connie together, but if Lula is keeping it secret, mostly likely Connie is too," I said my thoughts out loud to him. He nodded along as I continued, "if they both know, perhaps they would talk about it together but… without anyone else around," I said as if light bulbs went on in my head.

"Ah! Why didn't I think of that? Girls gossip all the time, especially friends," Tank agreed as if reading my mind. We needed a couple of bugs now.

Connie's POV

I watched as Lula came in around ten minutes to ten o'clock. Fifty minutes late, as usual so I would complain but I didn't feel like it today.

"Problems Connie!" Lula said once she entered the office.

"What is it?" I asked as I went back to filing my nails, her problems were weird, so who knows what it is now.

"I couldn't lie to Tankie about Steph but…"

"OH MY GOD! LULA! Please don't tell me you told him?!" I shrieked. We signed contracts! She could be sued and in deep shit and debt!

"No! I didn't tell him, I changed the subject every single time and that was difficult, I talked about paper and shit to avoid spilling about it! But he could tell I was hiding something! He will hate me now! And we were going so great together!" Lula sighed frustrated.

"Your Tankie? Hating you?" I raised my eyebrow at her in question with my voice filled with silly doubtfulness. I chuckled, Lula has him wrapped around her fingers and vice versa.

"Yessss, god! What do I do?!"

"Of course, you won't tell him or anybody else as we agreed got it!" I snapped. I wasn't in the mood to break contracts and sudden bankruptcy.

"M'kay… lips sealed," she said as the door opened and 'speaking of the devil' walked in with Ranger.

Tank's POV

"Lips sealed," I heard my honey say as we walked in. Hmm, they were already talking about whatever the secret is…

"Hey Honey," I said as I kissed her on the cheek quickly as I was with Ranger. As a reached over, I placed a tiny bug in her purse.

"Hey Tankie!" she beamed at me with a large smile.

"Any skips Connie?" Ranger asked and leaned slightly onto the desk.

"Just these two," she said and handed two files to him. He nodded a bit. He looked at me and I knew we had to leave.

We walked out after saying byes and Lula asking if we were still on for tonight.

Ranger had put a bug behind Connie's computer as I put one in Lula's purse as a back up if Lula would go with Bombshell somewhere.

About fifteen minutes after we left, Bombshell walked into the office with donuts and coffee for herself and the girls. We sat into the usual black SUV a block down and began to listened to their conversations.

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