Cyber Illusions by Nikki Duncan

Author:Nikki Duncan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: hacker, kids, magic, abandonment, illusionist, Fiction, Romance, secret baby, Suspense, FBI, runaway
ISBN: 9781619223196
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2014-11-18T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Taryn watched the byplay between Tyler and Daniel and found herself surprised when Daniel was the more antagonistic of the two. He’d never been anything but agreeable, and Tyler had more confrontational moments than kind ones. The switch was curious.

Steadiness and predictability, like Daniel’s, were everything she’d ever thought she wanted, so why were Tyler’s mood swings so appealing? Why was he the one, who even when pissing her off, intrigued her? Why was he the one who aroused her with a look?

By the time Daniel had watched the video and Tyler reclaimed his laptop, Taryn’s mom had arrived and let herself into the house.

“Tyler, you remember my mom, Liz.”

“Good to see you again.” With a curious look between Tyler and Daniel, her mom passed a folded paper to Taryn. “It’s the best I could do in so little time.”

Taryn flipped the paper open. Beside nearly half the dates she’d given her mom was an artist’s name and a painting title. “Daniel, were you able to get that list from the White Collar division?”

“They’re supposed to send it.”

“You looking for the list of pieces stolen?” Tyler asked as he stood from his chair and motioned for her mom to sit.

“And how they correspond with my itinerary.”

Tyler carried his laptop around the desk so he was standing beside Taryn. After a few keystrokes the list of stolen pieces, along with a picture of them, was on the screen. “Now show me yours.”

She laid the list from her mom on top of his keyboard and then looked at the two together. They were an exact match.

“How did you get this?” Tyler asked Mom as he went to the closet and pulled out another chair. Sitting beside Taryn, close enough that the salty smell of his swim reached her, she recalled the salty taste of his kiss.

“Mom has contacts.”

Pointing to three paintings on the list, her heart swelled with sadness knowing it wouldn’t have been easy for her mom to see that. She suddenly hated the thief. “She has connections in the art world.”

“If T wanted anything I did,” Mom spoke quietly but her pain was still evident, “she’d have first crack at it with no need for theft. Her taste is more modern, though.”

“You painted the piece over her bed.”

Her mom raised a brow, which Taryn knew to be suspicion that more was going on between them than an investigation and the kids. Daniel perked up at the familiarity of the statement too.

“I did,” her mom said, leaving her ideas unspoken. “As far as my contacts can find, none of the art has been offered for sale. My contacts would know.”

With Daniel looking on, more as a witness than a needed helper, she and Tyler went through the list and compared every one to her calendar. Each time, going back four years, she accessed her archived calendar and printed the detailed report for him, showing where she was at the time of each theft.

There were some occasions when she didn’t have an alibi other than being in her room, but she was regularly covered.

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