Winter's Ghost by Mary Stone

Author:Mary Stone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

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When Aiden saw Mike Shadley’s name on the electronic form sent over on Autumn’s behalf, his eyes widened.

He knew she had been hired by a private firm, but he hadn’t known which firm.

Shadley and Latham was a nationally renowned organization, and though their staff wasn’t numerous, those they employed commanded a certain level of prestige that was difficult to find elsewhere.

Shadley and Latham wasn’t an entry-level employer for newly minted graduate students.

He had the utmost confidence in Autumn, but the fact that she’d been offered the job straight out of graduate school begged more than one question.

Intelligence and hard work weren’t enough to land such a lofty career. Maybe they should have been enough, but in reality, positions like those at Shadley and Latham were only obtained via personal and professional networks.

In short, if a brand-new Ph.D. graduate wanted a job like the one Autumn had been given, they had to know someone.

Like Aiden, Autumn had come from nothing. She hadn’t been born into the elite academic circles that comprised most of those employed at the elite firm.

Who in the hell did she know? It seemed clear to him now that, no matter the research they’d done into her past during the Schmidt investigation, there was much about Autumn Trent that he still hadn’t learned.

Was her aunt well-connected? Her adopted parents? A college roommate?

A knock at his office door snapped him from the contemplation. He was tempted to send Autumn a text message to ask her about the curious nature of her employment, but he shot the idea down and cleared his throat.

“It’s unlocked.”

The door swung inward with a creak to reveal his unlikely visitor.

There was an unmistakable glint of irritability in Max Osbourne’s gray eyes, but Aiden already knew the reason for the irascibility. And for the first time in recent memory, Aiden wasn’t part of the cause of Max’s sour mood.

In fact, when Aiden had proposed his idea to have a forensic psychologist evaluate Sun Ming, Max had grunted out his approval.

The tenured SAC had taken on the task of informing Sun of the interview they’d scheduled for the following day.

Aiden wasn’t foolhardy enough to try to broach the subject of Ramirez’s suspicion with Sun. Fortunately, she wasn’t under his supervision.

“Parrish,” Max said as he eased the door closed. “I talked to Agent Ming.”

“How’d it go?”

“How do you think it went?” Max’s response was flat.

Aiden drummed his fingers on his desk. “Yeah, fair enough.”

“I didn’t tell her everything. I figure Ramirez can do that herself if she wants to. But I told her that she’s expected here for an evaluation tomorrow morning, and I sent her home for the night. You’re sure this is going to help her, right?”

He nodded. “I’m sure. This’ll prove to Ramirez that there’s no motive. Even if it doesn’t convince her outright, it’ll take the heat off Sun. Ramirez won’t be breathing down her neck anymore.”

At least Aiden hoped so.

“Good. Because we need Agent Ming on this case.”

“Agreed. We need just about any help we can get on this case.

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