Blind Trust by Sandra Orchard

Author:Sandra Orchard [Orchard, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC022040, FIC042060, Counterfeiters—Fiction, Family secrets—Fiction, Commercial crimes—Fiction
ISBN: 9781441245069
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2014-04-22T04:00:00+00:00

He wasn’t going to show. Tom glanced at his car’s dashboard clock. Kate had already been inside the research station for forty-five minutes, and for all Beck knew, she wouldn’t emerge again until quitting time. It’d been a long shot expecting him to show up here, but they couldn’t spare the manpower to stake out Beck’s apartment any longer. And Tom would rather spend his day off watching Kate’s back than sitting outside an apartment building half an hour away.

He pushed back his seat and pulled out her father’s arrest file. The scrap of paper with a number for Z. Cortez sat atop the rest. The area code matched DC’s, but reverse lookup on the internet hadn’t yielded an address. For all he knew the number was no longer in service or belonged to someone else now. But what if it didn’t? What if the person who picked up the phone on the other end was the woman who betrayed his partner? What did he do then?

The woman had disappeared without a trace after the bombing. What were the chances this scrap of paper would lead to her? She would’ve been a teenager at the time of Kate’s father’s arrest.

Tom turned his phone in his hand. Yeah, what was he thinking? There was no way a twenty-year-old arrest was connected to Ian’s killer. Zoe probably wasn’t even the woman’s name.

So why not call? Nothing to lose. None of their other leads were panning out.

The phone rang. Once. Twice.

He suddenly felt like a caged animal. If this turned out to be the same woman who got his partner killed . . .

He crushed the paper with her number scrawled on it, wishing it was her neck and hating the ugly emotions burgeoning in his chest, choking off all sense of—

“Hello,” a female voice said. Not Zoe’s. The woman had a British accent.

“I’m calling for Zoe Cortez. She there?”

An odd scuffle sound interrupted the woman’s response. “Ah, no, she’s not in at the moment. May I take a message?”

If this was his partner’s Zoe, there was no way she’d respond to his message. More likely she’d skip town the instant she found out he was onto her, which if she had caller ID, might be what that scuffle sound had been.

“No, that’s okay. I’ll call back. Thanks.” He clicked off the phone with a groan. Lord, I need your help. Lead me to this guy so I can protect Kate.

The rear door of the research center opened and Kate strolled out.

What was she doing? He’d told her to call him if she had to go anywhere. As he reached for the door handle to remind her as much, his cell phone rang. Kate held a phone to her ear. Okay, so he couldn’t yell at her yet. He settled back in his seat and watched her through his windshield.

When she bypassed her yellow Bug and opened the door of a white Honda, he clicked on his phone and started his engine. “Where you going, Kate?”

“Hey.

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