Fearless by Marlie May

Author:Marlie May [May, Marlie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hummingbird Press
Published: 2019-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

21

Ginny

The next morning, I placed a call to the police station to report the possible break-in into my apartment. Once the dispatcher determined there was no vandalism or anything missing, she said she’d send someone out to file a report. I wondered how that would go since I could barely convince myself that someone had been inside my apartment.

When I returned my personal camera to the fire-proof safe located behind a framed photo in my bedroom, I realized I’d left my current thumb drive in Eli’s Jeep. Seven other dated drives lay inside the felt-lined safe, each filled with images captured during my ten-plus years traveling the world.

I stored my pictures on thumb drives as well as on my laptop hard drive, only avoiding cloud storage because I was crap at remembering passwords.

The drive I’d left in Eli’s Jeep contained pictures from my journey through Greece, a mini vacation at the Black Sea with Zen before we ended things, and multiple shots taken during school visits in Istanbul. I’d topped it off with pictures from the camping weekend.

While coffee percolated in the kitchen, I parked on my sofa. I slid my laptop off the coffee table and turned it on.

“Okay.” A blinking white cursor stared back at me, plus the unwelcome message, No Operating System Found.

My computer-savvy didn’t extend beyond the basics, and this didn’t look like anything I could handle.

Holding in the start button, I counted to ten then let the computer start like normal. The blinking cursor and message appeared again.

A dead laptop was not what I needed right now. Where had I left those recovery thumb drives? Not in the safe with the ones storing my pictures. Were they somewhere inside the piles of boxes inside my storage shed out back? I grumbled because the last thing I wanted to do was spend hours poring through the contents of boxes in my hot, dusty shed.

Maybe that department store sales flyer I’d opened last week had given my computer a virus. Or Windows had failed. Eli had told me I should buy a Mac. Now, I wished I’d listened.

The easiest thing to do was take the laptop into town to the computer place and see if they could make it functional again. If not, I’d buy a new one, because I needed to blog and upload photos.

The security firm would arrive soon. Since I hadn’t scheduled photography business today, my morning was free. This afternoon was reserved for making dinner before Cooper arrived. And for plucking my eyebrows and shaving my legs. Important things like that.

Someone knocked on my door. Rising, I dropped my laptop onto the coffee table. I tucked the curtain to the side and peeked out. After verifying the security guy by the patch on his right chest, let alone the van parked in my driveway with Bastile Security stenciled on the side, I slid the deadbolt and opened the door.

“Ginny Bradley?” he said.

“Yes.” I waved him in.

“I’m Stanley Bastile of Bastile Security. I understand

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