Dead Ringers by Camilla Chafer

Author:Camilla Chafer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Camilla Chafer

Chapter Thirteen

"We really need to see your security tapes," I told Kelvin.

He stood in the parking lot scratching his head, still staring at the open hood of Sammy's car. "Who the hell would sabotage her car?" he asked.

I snapped my fingers, pulling his attention to me. It wasn't polite but quick. Kelvin dropped his hand but the confused expression remained. "That's what the security footage might tell us. I noticed there were cameras in the bar. Is there one out here?" I looked around, searching for one outside and saw the red blinking light above the door we recently exited. That answered my question but turning from the camera to the car, I wondered if its trajectory covered this corner of the parking lot. Would it be too much to hope that the camera caught an image of the car's saboteur? Possibly even Sammy's kidnapper? As that thought crossed my mind, I couldn't help thinking it was too much of a coincidence for the two events not to be linked. And what did Colette Jones say about her sister's car? That it was abandoned on the side of a road?

"Well, yeah," said Kelvin, waving towards the camera I already spotted. "Though, truthfully, it's always malfunctioning and the owner doesn't want to spend the money to replace it since only the employees park back here. It wasn't working at all when I left for my vacation."

"But the light is blinking," said Mike.

Kelvin shrugged. "I don't know jack-diddly about electronics, man."

"Can you remember if it was working on Sammy's last night here?" I asked.

"I don't know. Maybe."

"Just show us the footage," said Mike. "You do keep it?"

"Sure, the owner says we have to keep it in case of theft or bar fights. There was this one dude who smashed a glass in another dude's face last year and the injured guy claimed one of the bartenders did it. He got a lawyer and filed a complaint against us. He even got his buddies to be witnesses. Without that footage, he might have won his case. My boss showed it to his lawyer and bam! No lawsuit! Turns out the so-called victim had been trying that scam all over the state."

"That's fascinating," I said. "Show us the footage and while we're on the way, you can tell us why no one showed it to the police officer that came around asking about Sammy."

"He never asked," said Kelvin with a shrug. "He was in the bar five minutes at most when he got a call on his radio and left."

I glanced at Mike and rolled my eyes.

"You know, I don't know if I should…" Kelvin stuck his hands in his pockets and glanced at Sammy's car again.

"We're her friends. If something happened to her, we need to know so we can tell the police," I told him. "I'm sure you want to help her too."

"Okay." Kelvin nodded. "It's in the back office but you gotta swear I never took you back there."

"We won't tell the owner," I told him.

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