Shattered Order: A Psychological Crime Thriller (Shattered Survival Thrillers Book 3) by S.J. Braden

Author:S.J. Braden [Braden, S.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abby Moss Publishing
Published: 2020-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

When the U.S. Attorney’s office opened at 8 a.m., there were two FBI agents and two ATF agents waiting to talk to everyone in the office. One ATF and one FBI agent were set up in each of two conference rooms to process all the employees. Each person was questioned individually and asked about Colleen. Agents asked each of the co-workers how they felt about her personally, was she respected professionally, were they aware of any threats, what cases was U.S. Attorney working on and if they had seen or heard anything unusual lately, was there anyone else who was missing work, had anyone left the workplace lately, either voluntarily or non-voluntarily?

Agents discovered Colleen was well liked personally, respected throughout the office, wasn’t working on anything since the Maden case, and the office had not received any threats out of the ordinary in the last month. No one had seen or heard anything out of the ordinary and there hadn’t been any employee turnover.

But now, everyone knew Colleen was missing. Each individual person the agents interviewed wanted to know where Colleen was, was she okay, why all the questions? Agents didn’t disclose any more details than that she was missing but several of Colleen’s co-workers cried together in the break room after their interviews. Annette, the office manager, reported that Colleen had messaged Wednesday morning saying she wouldn’t be in the rest of the week because she had unexpected company. Her message said a friend had come to the Memphis in May festival. Annette was happy when she received the message because in five years she couldn’t remember Colleen taking any time off except for a trip to South America right before the Maden trial started. She reasoned that maybe Colleen was beginning to relax a little. Now she knew better and she wondered if she had questioned more Colleen doing something out of character, would it have made a difference? Were her attitude and complacency in any way responsible for delaying help to get to her co-worker and friend? As soon as her interview was complete she rushed to her desk and called Colleen’s phone again. There was no answer, but while it was ringing she was pulling Colleen’s personnel file and looking up Court’s phone number.

Court’s phone rang with a number he didn’t know. He answered on the first ring in hopes it was Colleen again.

It wasn’t.

“Court! I’m sorry to bother you. It’s Annette from Colleen’s office. The FBI and ATF are here at the office questioning everyone. They didn’t tell us anything more than Colleen is missing. What can we do to help you?”

“Annette, thank you for calling. I don’t know right now. If I think of anything, I’ll let you know,” Court replied with equal parts courtesy and dismissal. He didn’t want to get tied up with a lengthy conversation with someone who couldn’t do one damn thing to help Colleen, or Trent, or himself for that matter.

“Did you send the message to me about out of town company?”

“Yes.

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