A Threat to His Family by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-10-11T19:06:28+00:00

Chapter Ten

Empty.

That definitely hadn’t been what Laney had expected when the bank manager opened the box. Nothing. Not even a scrap of paper.

Her thoughts immediately started to run wild.

“Maybe it’s not the right box.” Laney threw the possibility out there.

Owen made a sound of agreement. Kellan wasn’t paying attention because he was already on the phone with the bank manager.

The cops cut the video feed, leaving her to stare at the blank screen. Mercy. Why couldn’t there just have been pictures inside? Or something that would have confirmed what Hadley had told her about the affair with Emerson? Now they had nothing, no reason to go after Emerson so they could stop another attack.

If Emerson was to blame, that was.

“My name was on the box,” she added, talking more to herself than Owen. Still, he answered her, along with sliding a soothing hand down her back.

“It was the right key,” he pointed out, “but Hadley could have moved the contents.”

That was possible, but it didn’t answer why her sister would have done that, especially without telling Laney. After all, Hadley had volunteered the info about the pictures, but maybe she’d been murdered before she could let Laney know they’d been moved.

Kellan was cursing when he finished his call. “The bank manager said someone—a woman—accessed the box yesterday.”

That got her attention and Laney’s gaze shifted from the laptop to him. Yesterday. So, Hadley hadn’t been the one to empty the box. But that left them with a huge question of who exactly had done that.

“Any reason the bank manager didn’t tell us this sooner?” Laney demanded.

“He claims that he couldn’t release any info about it until he had the search warrant.” Kellan glanced down at the notes he’d taken during the call. “The person had a picture ID with Hadley’s name, and she must have also had a key.”

“The missing second key,” Laney said under her breath. She wanted to blurt out some of that same profanity Kellan was using. “And she must have used a fake ID or one that she stole from Hadley when the key was taken.”

Kellan stared at her. “Could Hadley have given the second key to someone else?”

Her mind was whirling so it was hard to think, but Laney forced herself to focus. “She could have perhaps given it to Joe.” But almost immediately she had to wave that off. “He would have told me if she’d done that—especially after she was murdered. He would have known it could be critical to finding her killer.”

So, not Joe, but maybe a friend. Still, a friend should have come forward by now, which led Laney to consider that Hadley’s killer might have taken the key. The only problem with that was why the killer had waited all this time to access the box.

“Hadley might have left it at Joe’s place without him knowing,” Owen suggested several moments later. Obviously they were all trying to work this out.

That was possible, but another thought flashed into her mind. Not a good thought, either.

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