Guilty by Association (Judah Black Novels)

Author:E.A. Copen [Copen, E.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

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Ed walked in twenty minutes later. He didn't look like he'd slept, either, but he'd at least changed his clothes. He wore a wrinkled up, blue t-shirt that read TIME LORD IN TRAINING. I handed him the phone. He broke out a cable that connected it via USB to his laptop, sat down on the floor next to me and adjusted his glasses. “Give me ten minutes.”

“You're not doing anything illegal are you, Ed?” I asked leaning in closer.

Ed pursed his lips and shrugged. “I could do a hard reset but you'd lose all the info stored on his phone unless he's got it backed up through a third party site online. Then I'd have to try to get into his online accounts and answer a bunch of security questions using social media updates for source material. It's time consuming. This way is easier.”

“What exactly is this way?” I tried to lean around him to get a look at the computer screen but Ed shifted away from me.

“I don't roust you out of a level sixty-six dungeon raid the weekend before a major expansion release to tell you how to do your job, do I? Back off and let me work my magic.”

I still didn't know how the kidnappers had gotten access to the house so I stood and started pacing the room, thinking about it. There was a window but the house had central air so there was no reason it would have been left open overnight. Besides, it was a storm window with a screen and child-locks on it. That window wasn't even going to open easy from the inside, let alone from six feet off the ground, since Valentino's place sat on a slight hill. By all accounts, the front door had been locked. Maybe Elias let the kidnapper in, I reasoned. He did seem to know them. It took me about three seconds to decide against that. Even if that was the case here, Elias couldn't have let the kidnapper into the Greenlee or Summers house. There was something else at work, something that I wasn't seeing.

“Okay,” said Ed, disconnecting the phone from his laptop and holding it out to me. “I changed the lock code, too, in case it locks up on you again. It's two eight five nine.”

“Thanks, Ed,” I said taking the phone. “You're a life saver.”

For a loner, Elias had a lot of contacts in his phone. Some of them were suspiciously labeled only with two or three letter combinations. The only ones that were full names were members of the pack and people around town plus one more: Maria Castilla. “Bingo,” I said and tapped on the contact. A new screen came up displaying a picture, a phone number and a birth date. The number was obviously a fake unless Maria Castilla had the same phone number as Tommy Tutone's Jenny at eight six seven five three-oh-nine. It was the picture that mattered to me. “Holy hell,” I muttered.

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