Matchless by Brynley Bush

Author:Brynley Bush [Bush, Brynley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brynley Bush
Published: 2014-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

Unfortunately, visiting hours end and Gavin is herded back into the cell area before we can find out what he’s talking about.

“What the hell?” Emma says in frustration as we retrieve our purses from the lockers.

“We’re just going to have to proceed without his statement,” I say as we walk out into the sunlight. “It’s okay. It would have been helpful, but we knew it was a long shot. I’m just confused. I thought Camille was the mastermind behind the whole theft of your research.”

“Me too,” she says. “It doesn’t make sense.”

Her forehead is still creased when we climb into the car. She scoots straight into Beckett’s arms and he folds her protectively against his side. Griffin is behind the wheel, but I can tell from the tenseness of his body that he was almost as worried as Beckett. As he starts the car, he reaches across the seat to squeeze my knee comfortingly. I place my hand over his, reluctant to break contact.

“How did it go?” Griffin asks quietly.

I sigh. “He said he couldn’t give us a statement implicating Camille because she didn’t have anything to do with his decision to steal the research from Emma when he was at her house. He says she didn’t even know about it.”

“What?” Beckett’s voice is as surprised as it is dangerous.

Emma snuggles closer. “He said he never meant to hurt me. I almost believed him,” she says. “But when Mila said he could make amends by giving a statement that Camille was involved in the theft of the research to help our case, he said he couldn’t because she didn’t have anything to do with it. He made it sound like it was his own idea, and he said something about it being a spur of the moment decision he made because of something that happened at the club that night before he took me home.”

“Unfortunately, visiting hours ended before we could ask him more, although I doubt he would have told us anything else,” I interject.

“Let’s stop for lunch and see if we can put all the pieces together,” Griffin suggests.

We stop at a barbecue place just off the highway and continue our conversation over chopped brisket sandwiches smothered in barbecue sauce.

“Mila, feel free to jump in if you have any questions,” Beckett says to me. “I don’t know how much of this you know.”

“Okay,” I agree. “Griffin’s filled me in on a lot, and I’ve looked over all of the documents associated with the criminal proceedings. Let’s go over what we know for sure.”

Beckett nods seriously. “Good idea,” he says. “We know Camille got the information about the guanabana seeds potentially being the key, not the leaves, from Emma’s research notes when her ex, Tim, came by Emma’s house with Nikki while Emma was gone.”

“Nikki’s your daughter, right?” I say to Emma.

She nods. “I never should have left the notes in plain sight,” she says regretfully. “Then none of this would have happened.”

Beckett pulls her close. In a gesture that is achingly familiar, he tilts her chin up to meet his gaze.

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