Crystals and Criminals by Lily Webb

Author:Lily Webb [Webb, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

I arrived at Norwood Creative with Umrea early the next afternoon feeling refreshed, thanks to the great night’s sleep I’d gotten, and the gentle, healthy breakfast of fruit and yogurt Beau prepared for me. Unfortunately for me, my newfound stomach strength diminished slightly as soon as I took a deeper look at the Norwood Creative building.

Business waits for no one, not even the grieving, and that couldn’t have been more obvious by the look of the building. The police tape, the gargoyles, and the crowd of reporters that surrounded the perimeter before had dispersed — everything was back to business as usual, although it’d only been two days since the CEO of the company died in the building.

But now wasn’t the time for me to be sentimental, something I reminded myself of as I walked up the stairs to the front door. It wasn’t like I really knew Rowena, anyway.

“I’m just going to step inside for a few minutes. You can wait out here,” I told Umrea, and for once she didn’t object.

To my surprise, no one tried to stop me as I walked through the front door. In fact, there wasn’t even anyone at the receptionist’s desk, though I wasn’t sure if that was because they weren’t working or if they’d just gone to the restroom or something.

It was at that point I realized I had no clue where Carter’s office was inside the building, nor Rowena’s. When I’d visited the first time, I’d only spoken to Holly in a meeting room that didn’t seem to be close to anything important, and that was probably intentional. The last thing the police would’ve wanted was for me or anyone else to contaminate their crime scene.

Two wings branched off in opposite directions on either side of the desk, and I took turns peering as far as I could see down each. Neither gave me any clues, so I rolled the dice and decided on the right wing since I hadn’t seen it yet. Its walls were as bare and uninspiring as the other part of the office — a fact that still struck me as odd, given the word “Creative” in the company’s name — but I paid it little mind as I continued wandering down the hallway without ever crossing paths with anyone.

Maybe the employees hadn’t yet returned to work after all? But if that were the case, they would’ve locked the doors, which must’ve meant someone was here, and I hoped it would be Carter; I wasn’t interested in talking to anyone else. I wanted to hear the details directly from the warlock’s mouth.

Toward the end of the hall, I stopped in my tracks when I spotted police tape covering an office door. It could only be Rowena’s, though it seemed too generic to befit someone as important as the CEO. Maybe that was the way Rowena liked to keep things to avoid any feelings of separation from herself and her employees. I’d never know now.

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