Ever Hopeful by Lori Ryan

Author:Lori Ryan [Lori Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Western, Mystery & Suspense, Suspense, Westerns
ISBN: 1941149081
Amazon: B00I0VQ7Y4
Published: 2014-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Alec looked over at the doorway to Patrick’s office as Justin entered. “Hey, I didn’t expect you here. Something you need?” Alec asked, not letting his annoyance show.

The last thing he wanted to do was deal with Justin Kensington. There’d been no sign of Laura Kensington so far, and his search of all of the places he thought Patrick would have hidden the evidence he claimed he had, was turning up nothing.

Justin looked at him a bit strangely. “Yeah, I just thought I’d come clean out Patrick’s office. Get his personal things, you know. I’m trying to take care of as many details as I can before I leave,” said Justin.

Alec had Patrick’s files stacked haphazardly on the desk. He looked down at them and back to the empty filing cabinet he’d been searching. “Yeah, I’m just getting these files out of here so my secretary can go through them and see what needs to be done with them. I’ll get these out of your way so you can collect his personal things.”

Alec began gathering the files. “Unless you’d rather I have my secretary collect his things and have them delivered to your mom. You don’t need to go through all of this now, Justin. We can take care of it.”

Alec kept collecting files, striving for impassive indifference on his face as if he couldn’t care less if Justin took Patrick’s personal effects today or left them to be delivered later. But he’d be damned if he’d let Justin walk out of here with anything. Not until he was sure there wasn’t anything here that could incriminate him.

Before Justin could answer, Alec’s day got a whole lot worse. His secretary announced Mark and Paul’s arrival. He’d been expecting them for an update on the case and with Justin here, there was no way he could avoid letting Justin sit in on the update that involved Justin’s brother’s wife. If the private detectives were smart enough, they’d report that they’d found nothing and then give him an actual update later, but he doubted they’d pick up on that, or that they were smart enough.

And he was right. The two men walked in with a file folder in hand, and announced that they had news before they even saw that Justin was in the room with him.

No choice now.

“Great. Guys, you remember Patrick’s brother, Justin,” Alec said.

Both men nodded. “Good to see you again,” said Mark, before opening the file and handing a sheet to Alec.

“We were able to get hold of Laura’s phone and email info. She didn't send or receive very many emails from the account on her smartphone, but there was one email address she sent things to fairly frequently. She deleted the emails as soon as they were sent but the record of the address is still there,” Mark said.

“What was the email address?” Justin asked.

Alec backed up and put his hand to his lower back. The familiar feel of the .22-caliber handgun he kept there helped steady him.

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