Crash and Burn by Reid Amanda

Author:Reid, Amanda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Agents Fowler and Brown waited at the door for Sunny when she arrived, her heartbeat and breathing back under control after her massive bout with paranoia. A glass of wine wouldn’t be out of order with dinner tonight. Though first, she had to figure out a way to not be a suspect.

The agents escorted her to a conference room, the same room in which she’d met Agent Fowler almost a year ago. The coincidence caused nerves to dance in her belly.

Once she entered, she immediately took a seat at the end of the long side of the table, not wanting to be sandwiched between the two. Strategic. There was a good possibility they might not buy her explanation of how she came by the thumb drive.

The agents settled themselves, with Agent Fowler at the head and Agent Brown across from her. As she had this morning, Agent Brown opened her portfolio and started to write, even before Sunny said a word.

“Thank you for calling us.” Eagerness shaded his tone. “You said you found something?”

She pulled the thumb drive from her shorts pocket and pushed it to him. “I found this in the parking lot Friday evening when I left. I thought it belonged to a friend, so I gave it to her. She said she accessed the files and found patient information. She gave it back to me right before I called you.”

Stunned could be the only word for the expression on both the agents’ faces.

He recovered first. “Where did you find this?”

“In the parking lot.” Didn’t I just say that?

“Where in the parking lot?”

“You know those planting areas throughout the parking area? If you look out the employee door, there’s one of those to the right. The thumb drive was between the next two spaces, before you get to the planting area on the second row.”

“Okay. Who did you give it to?”

Idiot. Karena would have a different story than her. If she were going to lie, Sunny should’ve coordinated with Karena beforehand to make her version more plausible. Besides, feeding the federal agents a bogus story wouldn’t make them believe her more if they ferreted out the truth. Doubtful their reaction would match Karena’s.

Her shoulders tensed for the looks of pity or disbelief or derision. “I have this weird internal thing where I find objects. Then I give them to who’s supposed to have them.”

Agent Fowler’s face smoothed to a careful neutral. “You find things then give them to the person who’s supposed to have them.” The scratches of Agent Brown’s pen on paper grew loud in his pause. “How do you know who that person is?”

Probably not going to believe her. Yay. She started and needed to finish. “Here’s where I may start sounding weird.” She continued through the suspicion in the agents’ expressions. “The same sense that has me find stuff, also tells me who to give it to.”

The pen scratching stopped, and the two agents shared a glance. For sure both didn’t believe her. Great. Though now she’d told the truth, she wouldn’t have to remember a sequence of events she made up.

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