Marrying Mr Kennedy

VII

I sit in bed that night, Leon's phone in my hand as I look at the file that Hunnigan hadn't long sent Leon.
The picture was of a familiar man, a man me and Leon had both met.
Edward, the doctor. Although it turns out Edward isn't his real name.
His name is Anton Doyle, his wife Stephanie Doyle.

Leon comes out of the bathroom and into the bedroom in slacks and no shirt and I end up doing a double take as I realise and I watch him run the towel over his wet hair, his abs and muscles all on show for me and his skin still slightly wet from his shower.
Oh wow.
I take advantage of him not being able to see me and try to save as much of him to memory as I could before looking away as he removes the towel.

"Anything?" He asks as I try to focus on the blur of words on the screen
"Erm, no. Not really. He wasn't lying about being a doctor, he just forgot to mention he's no longer a doctor. He got dismissed last year but it doesn't say why. Are we going to look into that?" I ask hoping to do more investigating.
Investigating was my speciality after all and was the main reason why I was chosen by Leon to go undercover with him.
"I'm sure Ingrid can find out for us" he admits as he, unfortunately, goes for a shirt from our Chester draws.
"Ingrid?" I ask
"Hunnigan" he answers as I watch his back as he puts his shirt on
"First name bases huh?"
He turns to face me as he's pulling his shirt down and I wiggle my eyebrows
"She doesn't date coworkers" he admits
"Her loss, someone else's gain" I shrug and he smiles and climbs into bed and I pass the man his phone.
"Let me look into this tomorrow. I'm here to work and so far I've drank wine and made a fool of myself through my earpiece, I wouldn't call that work" I admit making Leon scoff a laugh
"I'd call that the best kind of work! What do you have in mind?" he says as he lies down too and turns his lamp off
"All I'll have to do is look up the department that Anton Doyle worked in and find his old boss' number and convince the guy I work at another hospital somewhere and that I interviewed an Anton Doyle and that he is his reference. The man will tell me he's unreliable and when I ask why I'm sure he'll tell me" I explain
"And you're positive that will work?"
"I can be quite convincing" I assure the man
Leon laughs "I don't doubt that"

"Bradley Cooper MDE, can I help you?"
"Hi, yes! My name is Natalie from Inova Alexandria hospital. I've just interviewed a man of the name Anton Doyle and he had you as his reference, is that correct?" I ask the man from my part-time sofa in my part-time home as my part-time husband sits beside me.

We enjoyed a breakfast at a cafe that morning and managed to not get followed so so far today hadn't really been that interesting. Was it weird I just wanted to get kidnapped already or at least find the madman behind all these deaths?
"Anton Doyle?" The man over the phone asks me
"Yes" I answer
"And he put me down as a reference?"
"Yes!"
The doctor scoffs before speaking
"Well, he needn't of bothered. Anton Doyle will get no good comments from me!"
"And why is that?" I ask
"Why, the mans a thief! He had been stealing from us for years, equipment, samples, data, you name it! The only reason it wasn't publicised was because he was a well respected and hard working chief pathologist"

"Stealing?" Hunnigan asks
"For years" I clarify over my earpiece as Leon changes upstairs, ready for our jog soon around our local park.
"If that doesn't shout guilty I don't know what does," Leon says through his earpiece
"The fact he and his wife lied about their names screams guilty!" I admit
"But we have no proof tying them to the missing couples" Hunnigan oh so kindly reminds us.
"Well they're definitely guilty of something," I say
"I haven't seen any suspicious activity from them the last three days. They seem to spend a lot of time at their home and his wife runs all the errands. I have men watching them" Hunnigan admits which somewhat disappoints me. I liked to be out there in the field, not sitting in a house playing bait. Bait was boring
"Well, keep us updated and we'll let you know if we get kidnapped" Leon muses
"Try going out more" Is Hunnigan's advice causing me to smile
"We're about to go jogging" I admit
"Jogging?" She laughs
"Try something romantic, like the cinema!"
I quite like the idea of her suggestion
"Sounds good!" I chirp happily