Lost Children by Willa Bergman

Author:Willa Bergman [Bergman, Willa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2021-05-10T22:00:00+00:00

5

A barrage of different emotions hit me, the first is sheer disbelief. Kim is the leak, she was the only one that knew about the Kandinsky commission. There’s more than a dash of pride in me that I’ve managed to work this out, but there’s also a wave of raging anger that pulses through me at the realisation of what she’s done, how she’s betrayed us all. But I show none of it.

Quietly I slip away from the party, it’s still in full swing so I doubt anyone is going to miss me. I hail a cab and head straight back to the office. As it drives through the Manhattan night I’m too lost in thought to see any of the sights outside. When I arrive at the office I get out of the cab almost dazed, not even sure why I decided to come back here. For a moment I debate whether to just call it a night, but I realise there’s no way I can fall asleep with all this going on in my head. I tell myself I can do some detective work while no one’s around and see if Kim has left any other incriminating evidence for me to find.

Kim. Why did she do it? What am I going to do with her? I don’t have an answer to either question. For the latter I could call the police, but I doubt the New York City Police Department would have much interest in what I had to tell them. What else then? Am I just going to fire her and let her walk away from this? No, I can feel there’s something more to be made of it. For the first time I am one step ahead of Geoffrey and I have to use it to my advantage.

Walking onto the twenty-second floor of the office the motion sensors detect me and the nearby lights spring to life. There’s no else here. I walk over to Kim’s desk to see what I can find but it’s disconcertingly neat and tidy. There’s a couple of files on the desk neatly stacked on top of each other which I flick through but I’ve seen everything in them already. Her desk phone is logged in so I scroll through the phone history, but there’s hundreds of calls from this week alone and I don’t even know what I’m looking for. I start looking up some of the numbers to see if I get lucky but the ones I find are all art houses and dealers. Then a thought occurs to me about the night I was attacked. I know I left the office just after six that night. I check Kim’s phone again and scroll to Tuesday night, to see all the calls she made around that time. Kim made four calls in the twenty minutes either side of me leaving the office: two were to landlines which I can see were to dealers, one was an internal call back to the London office and one was a mobile, unlisted.

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