The Girl With Nine Lives (The Adventures of Benedict and Blackwell Book 1) by Earle E

Author:Earle, E [Earle, E]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2013-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

I didn’t dare log onto Facebook when I got home that night. I couldn’t read the pleas of her family and friends when I knew what had happened to her.

I hated to think what they were doing to her- how scared she was. That I was responsible…

“You can sleep on the sofa,” I said to Calloway as he shuffled into my flat.

I don’t think Ben liked him being there, but he didn’t say anything- well, he couldn’t anyway. He just pointedly walked to the kitchen and meowed at his bowl. I rolled my eyes and fed him some Whiskers.

Calloway had insisted on staying the night. I didn’t know if that was protocol- maybe it wasn’t, but I could tell for whatever reason he really wanted O’Hara. I would be lying if I didn’t feel a bit safer knowing that he was in the next room.

“Feel free to use whatever facilities you need,” I said. When he didn’t answer and just nodded at me, I turned away and went into my room. I wasted an hour getting ready for bed, painted my toenails and brushed out Ben’s coat.

“You ok?” I asked him quietly.

“Yes,” he said. “But I don’t like him being here. He smells of dog.”

I raised my eyebrows at him and laughed. Stopping myself suddenly, I stood up and put my ear to the door. I could hear him talking. I opened it slightly and saw him pacing around the living room, hissing on the phone.

“We can’t ask her to do that, it’s too dangerous!” he snarled. “She’s agreed to go into the PR woman’s office and that’s about as far as I’m willing to go with it... I don’t care if it gets results! We have a missing person and another under threat.” He turned then, saw me and quickly shut off his phone.

I opened the door wider, wondering if I could get away with not eavesdropping. “Who was that?” I asked.

“People higher up,” he said simply.

“They want me to do what?”

“It doesn’t matter,” he snapped. “What matters is that we get tomorrow straight.”

“What do you need from Sabrina’s office anyway?”

“Files,” he said. “We believe she may have documents about the Principal’s expenses or her own. Maybe emails between business associates?”

I frowned. “Why can’t you just seize the computers?”

He smiled as if he was talking to a child. “Because if I send a team out there to the college, O’Hara will get wind of it and the documents will be destroyed.” He took a breath and put his hands on his hips. “Unfortunately, even the Justice System is corrupt.”

“Are you?”

He stared at me. “I’m one of the few people you can trust, Ellena.”

His words repeating in my head, I went to bed with an uneasy mind. He wouldn’t tell me what could be done about Emily. That familiar feeling of panic was rising up. I Skyped my dad, and I’m sure Calloway was eavesdropping from the other side of the door to make sure I didn’t give anything away.

Luckily,

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