Keep You Close by Cleveland Karen

Author:Cleveland, Karen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2019-05-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

I make it back to headquarters blindly, by rote. As I walk into the office, the bullpen goes quiet. A few of my agents pretend to be working; Parker glances in my direction and then is suddenly engrossed by something on his computer screen. Others don’t hide their curiosity—Garcia leans back in her chair and watches me, unabashedly.

I get to my desk and boot up my computer, and minutes later there’s a knock on my door. Garcia opens it before I say a word, steps inside. She’s holding a file folder at her side.

“What do you need, Garcia?” I snap.

“It’s about this case….”

“Which?” She’s working two at the moment. Or is it three?

“Pitowski. You know, the mortgage fraud one?”

“Right. What about it?”

She flops down into the chair across from my desk, and my mind flashes back to Hanson, the day this all started. I have a family. A wife, kids. A mortgage.

Then, just as quickly, my thoughts turn to Scott. What’s going to happen to his mortgage? His house? His family?

“Boss?”

I blink. Garcia’s waiting for me to respond. I didn’t hear a word she’d said. I have no idea what she asked me.

“So do you think I should talk to the DA?” she repeats, slowly.

“Do it.”

She opens her mouth to say something else, but thankfully shuts it again, gets to her feet.

When the door closes behind her, I face my computer screen. Dylan Taylor. Taylor is connected to this, somehow.

I run a background check, jot down notes. Dylan’s a waiter, employed by a company that provides surge staffing for special events, mostly at hotels. His mother died of throat cancer when he was sixteen; his father two years later, in a skiing accident. He graduated from the best high school in the area, near the bottom of his class; no college. No criminal record. Nothing noteworthy.

I spend the next hour searching for anything I can find on the parents, Bruce and Anne Taylor. They were both physicians, seemed to live a quiet existence. I can’t find any red flags. But I’m not willing to give up. I have an address, the home where they used to live, where Dylan grew up. And since that’s about all I have, that’s where I go.

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