Enforcer Ensnared by Elizabeth Lapthorne

Author:Elizabeth Lapthorne [Lapthorne, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B00B2MP6XG
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc.
Published: 2013-01-18T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“I’ve got a memory stick,” Jarred explained, “so we can download and save whatever any of us decide might be important to our various investigations. I know it’s double handling, but Will found vast amusement describing to me some of the…technical difficulties he’s experienced with you guys in recent months. I decided it was safer to have multiple backups in case my laptop dies a sudden and painful death, particularly with all the magical adrenaline and testosterone that will likely start to fly around in the heat of the moment. Now I gotta be honest, I don’t have a warrant for any of this. Will that be an issue for the integrity of anyone’s case?”

Elias shook his head in the negative. “No, Isobel and I lodged our paperwork before we came out here. Management knows we’re looking into Martine and keeping her under surveillance. Anything we get on her and can explain rationally will be fine to use before the Tribunal.”

“Nice,” Jarred commented with a huffed out laugh. He typed a few keystrokes and the screen separated into different boxes. “Okay, what I’m going to do is start downloading everything into temporary files. That way if we get booted from the connection, or if we have to close everything down in a hurry, we will still have what data we did manage to download and can look through it later on at our leisure.”

Blade peered over the large man’s shoulder, the screens scrolling through almost faster than he could read them. The tiny hand-sized satellite hummed at their feet in the grass and Jarred clicked open another window.

“There, got her phone logs,” he said, satisfaction thick in his tone. “Okay, we’re downloading emails, her browser bookmarks and her most frequently used website URLs. Let’s start with the phone logs since we’re going to have to run cross-searches on them, so we maybe can get something good on these first. Hmmm…”

Blade leaned closer, the numbers Jarred scrolled down not ringing any bells with him. But then he had to admit he had so few phone numbers memorized that his lack of recognition didn’t necessarily mean much.

“Man, she doesn’t make many calls,” Jarred commented.

Blade laughed. “That’s pretty normal, considering most of us Mages don’t usually bother with cells. Generally anyone who really needs to be contacted uses pagers. The technology within them is much simpler and generally has a better life with us. These two numbers here and here, though—they’re repeated fairly frequently,” he suggested.

“Only a call or two every week,” Jarred replied. “Could be her sister or best friend.”

Even as he spoke Jarred opened yet another window and logged into a federal database.

Blade’s eyebrows rose and he gave the blond man a respectful glance.

“Either you’re a very well-connected man,” he said, “or your ‘computer skills’ are a lot better than I had accounted for.”

“I am a well-connected man,” Jarred replied. “But no, I’m not a Fed. I’m just one of those people who are usually given a problem others have failed at and told to fix it no matter what.

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