Stolen Identity by Lisa Harris

Author:Lisa Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2013-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

Danielle fingered the empty candy wrapper. She’d never liked solving puzzles with missing pieces. Growing up, her mother had spent hours working on them on the card table in the living room. But instead of relaxing, Danielle had always found them frustrating. Hunting for matching colors, searching for the right pieces... Somehow, there always seemed to be a piece missing.

Today had proven to be exactly the same. Everything that had happened over the past few days had left her with unanswered questions and a growing frustration she didn’t know how to resolve.

She dropped the wrapper back onto the desk and looked up at Jason. “Let’s work through this. Why would Garrett come here?”

“The more I think about Garrett coming here, the more it makes sense, actually. Not only was he here in Pacific Cove. He called you. When you hung up on him, maybe he thought he could make you believe him if you talked to him face-to-face.”

The reasoning didn’t add up. “If he was looking for me, he didn’t try very hard. I’m here most of the time, and even if I was out, there is always an employee who could pass along a message.”

“Maybe someone didn’t want you to know he was here?”

“Again why? I’m not ready to simply blow off your theory, but he’s clearly not the only person who eats this particular candy.”

“You’re right, but considering the situation, I still don’t think we can simply chalk it up as a coincidence.”

“Maybe there is a way to know for sure.” Danielle hurried over to the laptop sitting on her desk and sat down in her office chair. “I still need to go through the footage from this morning’s break-in, but if we can find Garrett on the security footage, as well, we might be able to see who he spoke to.”

Danielle logged into her security account and her inbox, hoping they’d finally found their first real break.

“How long are your videos accessible?”

She clicked onher inbox. “Fourteen days. Longer if there is footage I want to save. Otherwise everything is automatically overwritten.”

“Which means that there is a chance that if he was here, we will still be able to access the video he was on.”

“And today’s intruder, as well.” Danielle clicked through the screens, then stopped.

“Jason...”

He leaned over, resting his elbows against the edge of her desk. “What’s wrong?”

“They’re gone. All of them.” She tried refreshing the page, with no luck. “Every bit of footage from the past two weeks has been erased.”

“Let me take a look.”

She moved out of the way so he could sit in the chair in front of the computer, then shoved back a strand of hair from her face. “This is impossible.”

“Apparently not, because you’re right. There is nothing in the trash folder, nothing in storage...it’s all been wiped out.”

Temples throbbing, she pressed her palm against her forehead, wanting to scream. “How could this have happened? To erase security footage from the hard drive you have to enter a code. It’s supposed to be a security system, completely inaccessible to anyone else.

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