The Secret She Kept (Blake Wilder FBI Mystery Thriller Book 5) by Elle Gray
Author:Elle Gray [Gray, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-28T16:00:00+00:00
Twenty-One
Macpherson Hall Medical Labs, Washington State University; Pullman, WA
âDo me a favor and shoot Rick a text,â I tell Astra as I hold the door open for her. âAsk him to do a deep dive into Benâs financials. Your question about a possible gambling addiction was a really good one. I think we need to see if thereâs a money trail.â
âWhat makes you think I didnât ask him to do that already?â she chirps.
I arch an eyebrow at her. âDid you?â
âI was just about to.â
âUh-huh,â I say. âStill, good idea. Good question.â
âI honestly doubt itâs going to come to much. It was a shot in the dark,â she tells me. âBut you never know. And to quote you, thatâs why we do our due diligence.â
We share a laugh as we walk down a flight of steps that takes us down into the basement of the science building. We pass different labs for prosthetics, robotics, and biology. Theyâre all filled with students working on a hundred different projects. If what Avila said about Benâs friendships not extending outside the lab is true, I doubt weâre going to find much here. Just another dry hole, but thatâs the job. Weâre paid to run down as many dead-end corridors as are necessary until we find the one that leads us to the truth.
It takes us a minute and several very literal dead-end corridors until we find the anatomy lab Ben most often worked in. The doors slide open with a pneumatic hiss, and all eyes turn up to us as we step inside. There are half a dozen students in white lab coats huddled around various machines and implements that look absolutely alien to me. I couldnât tell you what ninety-nine percent of the equipment in here does.
âCan I help you?â
I turn around and find a tall, thin Asian man approaching us. Heâs lean and has straight dark hair that falls to his shoulders, dark almond-shaped eyes, warm, fawn-colored skin, and a little feather duster of a mustache on his upper lip. Of course, his apparent inability to grow a full and thick mustache makes him look more like a little kid whoâs desperately trying to look older.
Astra and I badge him, stopping him in his tracks. He suddenly looks nervous, caught in that moment between fight or flight.
âYou alright?â I ask.
âFine. Iâm good,â he says. âI just havenât dealt with the police that much in my life, let alone the Feds.â
At the mention of the word âFeds,â everybody seems to stop moving all at onceâas though it was choreographed. All eyes turn back to us and there is a palpable tension in the room. I look at each studen in turn, eyeballing them closely as I search their eyes for signs of somethingâguilt, maybe? Iâm not sure. But this crowd looks as if their worst crime is not eating their vegetables with dinner. I refuse to tease them or call them nerds, though, since itâs entirely possible that at some point in the future, my life will very literally be in their hands.
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