Enforcer Seduced by Elizabeth Lapthorne

Author:Elizabeth Lapthorne [Lapthorne, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Published: 2011-06-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“Okay, we all here?” Will’s voice filled the room as if the man himself stood by the window and paced up and down the side of the apartment. Sage felt amused at the vivid mental image created by the captain’s tone alone.

“I’m here,” she spoke up, pleased to hear Blade’s voice state his presence followed quickly by Ange.

“Julian here and Matt’s trying to work out how to text the photo we’ve found,” Julian added.

“That makes six of us, Will,” Chase drawled. “All your little chickens home to roost. What do you have for us?”

“Funny,” Will snorted, “you’re a comedian, Chase. Now hold your tongue and listen up. While you got your beauty rest the rest of the team worked their asses off and completed some research. Matthias is sending through a picture of the girl we believe to be this pusher. You’ve all been updated and should know that Chase and Sage keep on hearing Alice’s name mentioned when they ask around about the source of the pills. Julian?”

Sage sat on the edge of the bed. It felt unusual to be standing at attention as if she were being briefed in person when it was just herself and Chase. Chase followed her and laid the cell phone between them. There was a pause and a muffled bit of talk between Julian and Matt before Julian spoke more clearly into the phone.

“Okay, Matt’s just sent the image out. It should arrive in a few seconds. The captain told us to look for this Alice girl. We started with birth and death records, but you don’t even want to know how many women under the age of thirty are called Alice. We took a few risks and culled the number by half by tightening the parameters of age and location. After that, we still had way more names than we could look into quickly.”

“So I got to thinking,” Matthias continued when Julian paused. “Instead of searching databases and whittling down a mammoth list of records, it might be quicker to do a newspaper article search using key words. We knew it was a long shot, but we could play with different searches in a very short period of time. Had it not panned out, we wouldn’t be too much worse off than we already were. I looked up varying combinations of the words Alice, magic, youth. I scanned the results looking particularly at photos for a brunette, Caucasian girl.”

Sage’s eyebrows rose in surprise, though she kept silent. Usually Matthias followed one train of thought and didn’t jump around needlessly in his approach to problems. Certainly open to change and the fluidity of any given situation, Matthias still generally took the tortoise approach to these matters. When Matthias paused dramatically, no one else jumped in so she decided to take the honors.

“And did it help?” she asked. “It sounds as if you had some success.”

Chase’s phone vibrated as the message came through. He pressed a couple of buttons and a grainy photo filled the screen.

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