Reasonable Doubt by Carsen Taite

Author:Carsen Taite
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Crime, Romance, LGBT, Fiction, Thriller
ISBN: 9781626394636
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2015-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Sunday morning, Ellery trudged outside to retrieve the paper from her front lawn. It was still dark outside, but she hadn’t been asleep for hours. Dogged by thoughts of the things that had gone wrong in the last two days, she’d given up around four a.m. and spent several hours examining the files she’d downloaded from Meg’s computer. She wondered if either Meg or Kyle had figured out they’d had a breach yet. More likely some poor cleaning lady would get in trouble for forgetting to lock the rear door and set the alarm.

She’d read through the files several times. Sadeem Jafari ran a foundation called the Global Enterprise Alliance. The paperwork for the foundation made it sound a lot like the charity Amir Khan had discussed with her father. She’d Googled both organizations and they appeared to be connected to a lot of the same work. Amir and Sadeem ran in the same circles, but ostensibly those circles were respectable. She found it hard to believe the Amir she knew would have anything to do with the bombing or any of the acts of violence associated with Al-Qaeda or ISIS.

“Hey, girl, you going to read that paper or just stand there holding it?”

Ellery looked over at Leo. He was propped up with his own copy of the Dallas Morning News spread out on his lap, drinking from a glass of orange juice that was probably spiked with vodka. “You’re up early.”

“Can’t get a jump on things if you spend your time sleeping in.”

“I’m ready for things not to be so jumpy. Hopefully, circumstances have calmed down for a bit. You can be sure the government will take their time combing through all my files before they decide what to do to me.”

“Pretty odd no one’s claimed responsibility for the bombing, don’t you think?”

“I guess.” Ellery had given the same fact considerable thought. She knew it was likely the government knew more than they were letting on, but unlike the Boston Marathon bombing where the suspects were arrested within days, several weeks had passed with no definitive statements from any federal agency other than the searches executed on Friday. Did they really not know anything? If so, that meant they were definitely on a fishing expedition with their searches. If you’d agreed to hear what Sarah had had to say, you might have a better idea of what’s going on.

Sarah. She flashed back to Sarah accosting her on the street the day before, looking every bit as gorgeous in jeans and a T-shirt as she had in her fancy red cocktail dress on Friday night. She’d seen a lot of her this weekend, but none of it under the circumstances she would have preferred. She’d run the whole gamut when it came to Sarah Flores, from thinking she was just another annoying, know-it-all federal agent to being captivated by her charm over coffee. Now Sarah was solidly defined as adversary.

But, adversary or not, Sarah had information and right now, information was power and Ellery was sorely lacking in that particular commodity.

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