No Good Deed (Lucy Kincaid Novels Book 10) by Brennan Allison

Author:Brennan, Allison [Brennan, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781466870031
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Lucy sat at her desk and scanned the files from Logan Dunbar’s laptop. But she wasn’t really seeing anything. She was heartbroken.

It was her own fault. She should never have read that memo.

That knowledge didn’t diminish how she felt that Juan had asked Barry to evaluate her. Rookies were constantly being evaluated, but this was beyond routine. Worse, she’d thought she and Barry had come to an understanding, that they’d worked well together, but she must have missed his animosity.

And she’d told him she planned to talk to Elise Hansen. Hadn’t she? Lucy rubbed her eyes and thought about what she’d done and said two weeks ago. She hadn’t made an official request through Barry, but she didn’t think that she’d had to since she was one of the agents of record. She’d called him the night before—she remembered it distinctly. She’d asked if he wanted to go with her. He’d said no, he didn’t see the point.

Brad had gone with her instead.

But that whole week was a blur.

She needed fresh air. She needed to get out of this office.

Barry could have forgotten their conversation. Or maybe she didn’t remember it the same way. Maybe when he said he didn’t see the point, he hadn’t expected her to follow through.

“Lucy,” Hans said as he approached her desk. “Did you talk to Noah?”

She hesitated. Had that been only twenty minutes ago? It seemed like hours had passed.

“Yes. He said he’s meeting with Rick Stockton shortly, and he’ll find out what we need. I’m going over Logan Dunbar’s files. Noah said FBI forensics determined that the killer cloned his hard drive. It was password-protected, but we have to assume that they can eventually break the code. He asked if I’d go through the information, see if anything pops out that is worth killing for.”

“Is there?”

“There’s a lot here. Noah said he’s taking care of the financial documents that related to the money laundering and political corruption. Most of what I have here are memos to Noah and Rick Stockton about the day-to-day operations of Adeline’s campaign, donor information, employee information.” She hesitated. On a hunch she searched the data for Joseph Contreras. It took the computer a minute before popping out a list of documents with his name.

“Is that the assistant who may have killed the Congresswoman?” Hans pulled over a chair and sat. Lucy was surprised that it was quiet in the office; no one else in her squad was in the bullpen. She shouldn’t be surprised; it was nearly six in the evening.

“We don’t know anything about him. He doesn’t have an FBI file, his prints aren’t in the system. His Social and driver’s license were legitimate, but he has a very small digital footprint. We know that his Social was issued in California.”

She clicked on the file. It was a list of all Adeline Reyes-Worthington’s campaign staff. Joseph Contreras had been paid out of the campaign, not a personal account. His salary was close to six figures, which seemed high for a personal assistant.

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