Colby Agency 29 - Colby Rebuilt by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Harlequin Romance, Intrigue
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

At 8:00 a.m. sharp the knock came at Shane’s door.

Simon Ruhl had arrived with a dossier on Jason Mackey and a bag of essential items from Mary Jane’s home.

“Coffee?” Shane asked as he accepted the file.

“No, thanks.” Ruhl set the overnight bag on the floor and glanced around the living room. “How is Ms. Brooks this morning?”

Shane glanced toward the hall. “Still asleep. Yesterday wasn’t exactly a normal day in her life.” Not by any stretch of the imagination. Mary Jane Brooks was a quiet, conservative school teacher who took care of the ill and needy. A regular Florence Nightingale. The kind of woman who represented wholesome living and selfless giving. And still, she’d kept him from sleeping last night. Not a single thing about the ideas that churned in his brain had been wholesome or selfless. Mostly they’d been about getting so deep inside her that their bodies would be like one.

Ruhl gestured to the bag at his feet. “Nicole assembled the essentials as well as changes of clothes and the cell phone charger she found on the kitchen counter at Ms. Brooks’s home.”

Nicole was Ian Michaels’s wife and a fellow Colby Agency investigator.

“Sounds like everything we’ll need.”

“Ben has tied a link to her cell number. Any calls that come in will be traced and recorded on our end without interruption to her. Ben has a friend who can do a voice analysis in the event she receives another call she believes to be from her sister.”

“Excellent.” Shane gestured to the sofa before heading that way. “She’s convinced the voice was Rebecca’s,” he said as he sat down and opened the file on Jason Mackey.

“It could very well have been her sister’s voice,” Ruhl agreed. “We both know that with today’s technology most anything is possible, especially if one has access to recordings of a person’s voice.”

That was the thing. Shane leveled his gaze on Ruhl. “We also know that every interview conducted with her Bureau contacts and with the marshals who would oversee her transfer into Witness Security would have been recorded.” Shane would be the first to admit that he would like nothing better than to pin this on his former partner, the bastard. But even he realized that was a long shot. Just because the guy was a complete jerk didn’t mean he was a killer or dirty.

“Conference calls, meetings, any number of activities at Horizon Software may have been recorded as well,” Ruhl offered. “This may be someone from that side of this ugly game. If she left behind something that could incriminate them, they would certainly want to find it.”

“But why wait all this time?” Shane returned, playing devil’s advocate. “Why not months ago? Horizon Software snubbed its nose at the feds after she disappeared. From what I’ve read, the CEO has carried on as if the whole investigation never happened. Now, suddenly, with the announcement that her remains have been identified, her only living relative is being shot at and receiving warnings from beyond the grave.

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