Going Grey (2014) by Karen Traviss

Author:Karen Traviss [Traviss, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction
Publisher: Karen Traviss
Published: 2014-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

TEN

I did what I thought best. I don't know if they believe me or not, but now I've confronted KWA on hacking my phone records, I think that's pretty well put Shaun in a place where he can't move. And I don't have to wait for the other shoe to fall.

Charles Kinnery, in conversation with Leo Brayne, explaining his reasons for not sticking with the plan.

KWA, LANSING, MICHIGAN

AUGUST.

When Dru unlocked her office, the first thing that struck her was a heady, clove-like fragrance, the second was realising someone had been in the room overnight, and the third was the lavish bouquet of Asian lilies in a vase on her desk.

Now she knew she didn't have a life. The thought of an intrusion had kicked the surprise gift into third place. Anyone else would have wondered who their admirer was.

Only the security desk would have had access overnight, not even the cleaners. There was no message on the desk. Maybe it was still tucked into the arrangement of pink and white lilies. As Dru moved the stems to check, she remembered the messy orange pollen a moment too late and snatched her hand away to check her blouse for stains. But a closer inspection showed that someone had clipped out the stamens. Now that was attention to detail. She respected that.

The flowers had to be a mistake, though. It wasn't her birthday, and nothing happening at work warranted a bouquet.

Larry? No, he'd only send me flowers if he'd been arrested and needed me to post bail. And if he needed that, he'd probably phone in the middle of the night.

She called the security desk to put herself out of her misery. It wasn't Alex today. A younger male voice answered.

"Did you let someone into my office overnight?" she asked.

"Yes, ma'am," the guard said. "Mr Weaver had something he wanted to leave personally."

"Oh." Somehow that wasn't reassuring. "Okay. Thank you."

Dru stood studying the flowers, trying to work out why Weaver would want to pacify her. Perhaps Kinnery was going to make a complaint about the phone records after all, and Weaver needed her to cover for him. But I'm the only one in the frame on that, aren't I? How did cross-border cases like that work? She moved the vase to a filing cabinet and wiped her desk with a tissue.

So Weaver got what he wanted. I just damn well hope I do.

Well, she was burned now. Kinnery had seen her and heard her voice. She could be identified. That ruled out any more personal investigations. The worst of it was that Kinnery's explanation made perfect sense, but then so did the theory of the mule.

And he didn't mention the visit to the ranch. Just the phone. So there might be no connection to Maggie Dunlop at all. On the other hand ... if there was, he wouldn't want to fill in the gaps for me, would he?

Every scenario could make sense if she stared at it long enough. This was getting her nowhere.

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