A Chip and a Chair by Cordelia Kingsbridge

Author:Cordelia Kingsbridge [Kingsbridge, Cordelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2019-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

Dominic didn’t like the word bitch. He rarely used it in reference to a woman, especially one as young as Bianca Olsen.

But after a morning immersed in her various social media feeds, there was no getting around it: Bianca was a spoiled, racist little bitch.

The rising ubiquity of social media was a blessing to bounty hunters and PIs everywhere; it was truly astonishing how much personal information people were willing to reveal on the internet. Dominic could credit more than one collar to an ill-advised Facebook check-in, Snapchat geofilter, or nostalgic Instagram post.

Bianca had a presence on every social media platform known to mankind, each updated with such regularity and thoroughness that managing them must have been a full-time job. That made Dominic’s task much easier, and as a PI, he was grateful for the wealth of open-source intelligence.

As a human being, it made him want to drink bleach. There were only so many xenophobic rants about immigrants and breathtakingly ignorant comments on poverty that a guy could be expected to endure.

Bianca and her entire family, sans her missing grandfather, were on vacation in Lake Tahoe-they’d left the day before the explosion at the Mirage, which wasn’t suspicious at all. Assured by her comprehensive documentation of the trip that nobody was home in Las Vegas, Dominic broke into the Olsens’ Summerlin house and turned it over room by room. With no need to rush, his search was meticulous, and would leave no evidence of his passing.

He continued monitoring Bianca’s social media while he worked. Isaiah, McBride’s tech guru, had whipped up a cool app for the firm that collated and tracked an individual’s social media activity with minimum effort on the investigator’s part. Dominic had never appreciated it more, even if he was interrupted every few minutes by a notification about a new Instagram post of Bianca’s latte or whatever.

So far, his search hadn’t been as productive as he’d hoped. The house was spotless, not to mention organized in a near-obsessive way he’d only seen in magazines before, so he was pretty confident that he wasn’t missing anything. There simply weren’t any indications of where Hatfield had gone.

He’d reached the home office of Vanessa Olsen, née Hatfield, and was investigating the contents of her desk when his phone dinged.

Bianca had updated her Facebook with a selfie of her in a bikini, relaxing by the pool at the family’s rented house in Lake Tahoe. In the mere seconds it took Dominic to absorb the picture, likes were already pouring in from her literal thousands of followers. Then a comment popped up from a woman named Hailey, whom Dominic knew from his background work was one of Bianca’s closest friends.

Can’t believe that slut Roxy came with you!!

Bianca responded a moment later. I kno rite?!? Grandpa should have sent her somewhere else. Look at her rolls in that bikini!!! That was followed by the barfing-face emoji.

Frowning, Dominic studied the picture more closely. There was another woman in the background of the shot, a stunning redhead partially out of frame.

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