Hide from Evil by Jami Alden

Author:Jami Alden [Alden, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781455505760
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Chapter 13

Krista held up her hand. “Okay, let me make sure I have this straight. Up until nine months ago, JD Partners owned Club One before ownership was transferred to Hexacorp, which we’ve already traced to Nate Brewster. But JD Partners effectively owned West Hall and also paid Jimmy as an independent contractor?”

“Yep.” Ibarra nodded.

“And West Hall has since been dissolved, and other than Jimmy, we can’t find any records of anyone else who ever worked for them?” Krista rubbed her thumbs against her forehead as though that could put a dent in the headache that was building beneath her skull.

Krista closed her eyes as she struggled to process the confusing web of shell companies and hidden transactions. “So even before Nate’s death, someone was trying to cover up any connection they might have had to Club One.” She let out a sigh. Something was niggling at the back of her brain. Why did the name JD Partners jump out at her? “What about Jack Brooks? He was working as head of security for Club One—can you tell if he was hired through West Hall?”

A few minutes later, Ibarra replied. “Not by name, but looks like the same bank account was paying him up until just before the club was closed.”

“Okay,” Krista said. “We have two confirmed employees of West Hall, both of whom worked at Club One and both of whom were involved with Nate somehow.”

“What about the other people who worked at Club One?” Sean asked. “Maybe they knew something.”

Krista shook her head. “Stew tried to track several of them down in the last few months. He didn’t get anywhere. Certainly nothing to indicate a connection to Karev.” She paced, pausing at the office’s huge picture windows to stare out at the jagged peaks of the mountains, struggling to get the pieces to slide into place.

Then it hit her like a fist in the gut. “Holy shit,” she whispered. “JD Partners. I know that name.”

“What?” Sean asked. “How?”

She turned to Sean. “From my father’s files. He’s an attorney,” she explained for Ibarra’s benefit. “I interned for him after my freshman year of college, and I know I saw that name in some documents.”

Sean reached out and brushed her arm. “Are you sure? Your father’s firm dealt with a lot of clients. You could be mistaking the name—”

Krista shook her and tried to swallow back the lump in her throat. “I wish I wasn’t so sure, but I remember now. It was something he wanted me to keep really quiet, some kind of property transfer or something.” She shook her head. “He had me handle all of the administrative stuff because he didn’t want anyone else in the office to see it.” At the time she’d felt so special, like her dad had let her in on some little secret. God, what an idiot.

“So who was the client?” Sean asked.

“I have no idea,” Krista said, her shoulders slumping in defeat. “None of the paperwork I saw had names associated with the company.

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