Line of Duty by Terri Blackstock

Author:Terri Blackstock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Array
Publisher: Zondervan

Chapter Forty-Two

Stan Shepherd found the coffeepot as soon as he got to the station and poured a cup that some rookie sergeant had made hours ago. It was too weak, but it would have to do.

He took the cup to his desk and looked down at the chart he had scribbled on Newpointe Police Department letterhead. His detective’s mind tried to puzzle through the things they had learned about their three Middle Eastern detainees. So far, their alibis had checked out. They were indeed students, and several witnesses said they had been in class that morning when the bombs had gone off.

“Excuse me. Officer Shepherd?”

Stan looked up and saw a familiar blonde standing in front of him. It took him a second to remember her name.

“Amber?”

She smiled, pleased that he recognized her. “I didn’t know if you’d remember me.”

“Well, sure I do,” he said, “but I haven’t seen you since you went away to college. What’s that been, six, seven years?”

She smiled. “Yeah, something like that.”

Amber Williams was the daughter of two of his friends from church. She’d been raised in their fellowship and had been baptized when she was ten years old. Stan had taught her in Sunday school when she was in tenth grade.

“Look at you, all grown up.” He pulled a chair up to his desk, and she sat down. She looked nervous.

“What brings you here?”

She looked down at her hands. “Uh . . . there’s something that I need to tell you, but . . . is there somewhere we could talk in private?”

Stan frowned and realized that she wasn’t here for a social call. This was police business. “Sure.” He stood up and looked at the interview rooms at the back of the squad room. One of the doors was open, indicating that it was vacant. “Come right back here and we’ll talk.”

As he led her back to the room, he reeled through what he knew about the girl. She must be twenty-two or twenty-three by now. Certainly not a kid anymore, she looked like she could be a magazine model. She carried herself with an air of confidence that she hadn’t had when she was younger. But the expression on her face said clearly that something important was troubling her.

He closed the door and pulled a chair out for her. “So what’s wrong, Amber?”

She waited for him to sit down across from her. “Detective Shepherd, I probably should have gone to the FBI or the New Orleans Police, but since I know you . . .”

His eyebrows came together. “Go ahead.”

Tears glistened in her eyes. “This is hard to say. If my parents found out, they would just die. But I guess they’re probably going to.”

His mind raced ahead, trying to figure out what she might be getting at, but he couldn’t settle on any one thing.

“I’ve been having an affair with Donald Merritt.”

His heart plunged, and he sat up straighter, staring at her. “Donald Merritt, the CEO of Icon?”

She nodded. “I know it’s horrible.

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