Delta Force Defender by Carol Ericson

Author:Carol Ericson [Ericson, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488033643
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-08-13T20:24:22+00:00

Chapter Ten

The floorboards creaked behind him, and Cam whipped around from Tony’s dead body, clutching his weapon.

Martha gaped back at him, her face white and her mouth wide.

“Get back. He’s dead.”

“What happened to him?”

Cam launched forward and ran down the hallway toward the back door, which they’d left propped open. He pulled it closed and locked it.

When he returned to the bar, Martha was leaning over Tony, both hands over her mouth. If she got sick all over the body, they’d have more explaining to do than he was prepared for.

“Martha, what are you doing?”

“He left us a message.”

“Tony?” He joined her at the table and then jerked back. Someone had written on the table in Tony’s blood: “Back off.”

Martha stumbled back from the table, as if obeying the order written on it. “That’s for us. He knew. He knew about this meeting, or suspected it and was watching Tony.”

Cam backtracked to the mahogany bar and peered over it at the register, gaping open. “He staged this as a burglary. Cleaned out the cash. He took care of the security cameras, too.”

“And probably deleted the rest of the footage showing his meetings with Tony.”

“We’re done here.” Cam leaned over the bar and grabbed a clean bar towel. “Did you touch anything at the table?”

“God, no.” She shoved her hands in her pockets.

“Then we need to clean off our prints in the office—on the door and the computer keyboard—and at the back door. At least our images won’t be on security footage, either.”

As he made for the office, Martha grabbed his back pocket. “You mean we’re going to just leave him here without calling the police?”

He glanced over his shoulder at her. “And how would that story go? We came here after hours to meet with Tony and get a look at security footage of his meeting with a man who knows you stole classified emails from your employer—the CIA?”

She sagged against the wall outside the office. “That’s the problem with lying, isn’t it? It never stops. You have to tell more and more lies to cover up the previous lies.”

“I’d lie to hell and back to protect you, Martha. You don’t need to get in trouble for something you did that felt right at the time.”

“I guess that’s what my father would’ve said. It felt right at the time. Your father, too.”

He ran the towel across the computer’s keyboard. “What we’re doing doesn’t compare to what our fathers did. Not even close. You sensed something was off about those emails—and you were right—but nobody believed you. You just took matters into your own hands.”

“And made a mess of things.”

Cam wiped down the front of the door and then, with the towel in his hand, closed it and finished off with the doorknob. “By keeping those emails, you forced Ben out into the open. He’s running scared. If you hadn’t stored those messages on a flash drive, Ben would’ve been home free.”

“He might not have killed Wentworth, Casey and Tony though.

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