Keep Holly Close by A.E. Radley

Author:A.E. Radley [Radley, A.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heartsome Publishing
Published: 2019-11-21T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Holly stood back and stared at the whiteboard. She’d spent the last couple of hours moving a lot of the data around and adding in everything that Jazz had managed to find. The suspect list looked a lot different now, but there was still a long list of names.

Suddenly the roller door to the storage unit opened. Holly spun around and took a few steps back, shocked that someone was unexpectedly entering the space. Thankfully, she recognised the intruder and let out a breath.

“Victoria!” she admonished.

Victoria stepped into the room and closed the door behind her.

“I told you I’d email you when I had something worth showing you,” Holly continued.

She couldn’t help but smile even if she was frustrated at her girlfriend’s complete inability to follow rules. Victoria quickly moved in front of her, took Holly’s face in her hands, and placed a soft kiss to her lips.

“You’re always worth seeing,” Victoria whispered.

Holly felt her cheeks blush.

“Sweet talker.” She softly hit Victoria’s shoulder. “You still shouldn’t be here, and you gave me a heart attack.”

Victoria didn’t look apologetic as she scanned the whiteboard. “Cracked the case yet? I see my mother is no longer a suspect.”

Holly looked at the whiteboard and bit her lip. She hadn’t expected to see Victoria that evening, and so she hadn’t prepared a suitable way to explain to her that she was working side by side with the scammer.

It certainly wasn’t something she relished explaining.

“Come and sit down,” she suggested. She took the clean sheet and draped it over Victoria’s chair.

“My sister isn’t on the list either. What did they do to earn a pass?” Victoria asked as Holly took her arm and eased her closer to the chair. “You didn’t call them, did you? I don’t have the energy to speak with either of them this weekend. Besides, I’ve decided I’m going in to the office tomorrow.”

“I had some new information; it put them in the clear.” Holly pushed Victoria softly into the seat and then pulled her chair to sit in front of her. She gestured to Victoria’s feet and then tapped her lap.

Victoria slid off a heel and placed her foot in Holly’s lap, her eagle eye still on the whiteboard behind her. Holly started to massage the proffered foot.

“The emails,” she started. “They came from Arrival.”

Victoria slowly turned to look at her. “From Arrival?”

“Yes, I had someone check into it, and the emails came from somewhere in the Arrival office. I’ve cross-referenced them with a list of people who were in the office at the times when all the emails were sent, and don’t ask how I got that,” she requested.

Victoria’s eyebrows rose, but she didn’t say anything.

“That’s the final list.” Holly jutted her head back towards the board. “Somewhere on there is the person who’s doing this.”

“Why on earth would a person from Arrival want to do this?” Victoria asked.

Holly dug her thumbs into Victoria’s soft arches and tried to massage away the knots that were permanently in residence from a career in heels.

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