ARRESTED - A Stepbrother Cop Romance by Stephanie Brother

Author:Stephanie Brother [Brother, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

17

CORY

CCTV footage from campus plays across a monitor at the police station. After examining Allyson's room, Simons and I requisitioned the footage from the security office. The longer it took for them to hand it over the more anger simmered inside me.

Anger at myself.

I should have been the one to drive her back to the dorm. I would have stayed with her as long as she let me. If I'd been involved from the start like I wanted maybe Allyson wouldn't be missing.

Anger at my superiors for preventing me from doing what I knew in my heart was right.

Despite my sergeant's insistence that I'm too close to the case I now sit with Detective Jameson going through the CCTV footage. I pause, fast forward, rewind and pause again. I know the security footage is going to give us the clue we need to find Allyson, just like I know without a doubt that Drew took her. My hatred for the guy threatens to take over but I push down my anger so I can concentrate on what matters. Clues to what happened to Allyson.

Hours of footage later, fast forwarded to about the time Allyson returned to the dorm with Rachel, something snags my attention. I almost miss it because there's nothing particularly out of the ordinary about it. I watch as Rachel leaves the building, pausing at the bottom of the steps to look back to the lobby. A man wearing a cap hovers nearby with his head down, his back to Rachel. She pays him no attention as she walks from the lobby and down the sidewalk, back to a parking lot I assume.

The man walks past the lobby door and off camera. I keep watching the door not knowing how soon Allyson was taken after Rachel left.

Shortly after, a dark blue pickup truck pulls up in front of the dorm. That alone doesn't put my instincts on alert but when the guy gets out of the truck wearing a thick dark coat and a cap that hides part of his face, I pay a lot more attention. The same guy from before but this time he walks up toward the doors. He pauses, looking at his phone until someone exits the building. Just before the door can close behind them he snakes out his hand to stop the lock from catching and ducks inside.

I swear under my breath. "That's him. It's got to be him."

"A likely suspect, but let's see what happens before we jump to conclusions," Jameson says.

It wasn't a huge jump. Suspicious behavior like that doesn’t lead to nothing. What possible reason could the guy have for loitering in front of Allyson's dorm, waiting for Rachel to drive away? The guy would know Allyson was alone.

We continue to watch the footage. A few minutes later the man exits the building, gets back in his truck and drives away. I slam my hands down on the desk in frustration. The sting of the impact barely registers. If that’s Drew, where the hell is Allyson? A twinge of uncertainty gnaws at the back of my brain.

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