The Seven-Day Target by Charles Natalie

Author:Charles, Natalie [Charles, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
ISBN: 9780373278206
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“We walked right into his trap!” Nick brought his fist down on the roof of his car. “I knew the clue could lead us into harm, but I took precautions. I had my gun, I secured the scene....” He stopped and shook his head.

“It’s impossible.” Libby was talking to herself more than responding to Nick. She leaned against the hood of the vehicle and crossed her arms. “It’s impossible that this was the plan.”

He snorted. “Seems pretty damn possible to me.”

“No, this couldn’t have been the plan.” She looked at him. “The D.A.’s Office keeps most of its records in Ridgefield. Some were moved here temporarily when the Ridgefield unit had flooding problems, including State v. Henderson, but he couldn’t have known that. The files were just moved two weeks ago, and I only learned about it this morning when I called over to the D.A.’s Office.” She chewed on her thumbnail, which did nothing to quell the anxious energy pulsing through her veins.

“But you knew that the files had been moved.”

“Yes, but only because I had access to that information through work.”

Nick furrowed his brow. “He could have known where those files were if he works with you.”

That was the obvious conclusion to draw, but hearing it out loud made Libby sick to her stomach. Did someone at work want to kill her? She thought of the look on Greg’s face on Monday when she interrogated him about her reputation for being uptight. No one would want to kill her for being uptight or insensitive...right? She ran through her list of colleagues and tried to assign a motive to each one.

“That can’t be right. No one who worked on the Henderson case works there anymore. It can’t be a colleague.” She took a breath. She knew she was on edge, but she didn’t need to be paranoid.

Nick leaned next to her, and they watched the police officers interrogate the warehouse employees. An investigator had discovered a homemade remote controlled device in the box that had caught fire and black paint on the lens of the security camera watching the room. One of the warehouse employees had readily admitted to pulling those boxes but claimed he had no idea that one box had been rigged. Libby believed he was telling the truth.

“That device could have been planted weeks ago,” Nick said. “Months, even. We don’t know how long this whole scheme has been in the works.”

“True,” she admitted. “But the note in the fire detector? That had to have been planted more recently because the files were just moved here. And I’m wondering if it was planted today.” She fumbled for her cell phone.

He shifted. “Who are you calling?”

“I know the warehouse manager in Ridgefield. I want to know what that smoke detector looks like.”

When the Ridgefield warehouse manager answered, she gave him some background and asked him to check the smoke detector in the file review room. “It’s a fake,” she announced as she snapped her cell phone shut.

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