For Pete's Sake (A Pet Psychic Mystery No. 4) by Shannon Esposito

Author:Shannon Esposito
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mysteries women sleuth series, cozy dog mysteries, cozy mystery series, cozy paranormal mysteries, cozy animal mysteries, cozy psychic mysteries, cozy mysteries kindle
Publisher: shannon esposito
Published: 2016-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Mallory pushed herself off the floor. “What is that?”

I pulled the cap off the end, my heart racing. “It’s a flash drive. It was in Petey’s bear.”

This must be why Peter had the bear stashed on top his dresser. For safe keeping.

“That means someone hid it there on purpose and that someone was probably Peter! Let’s find out why.” Mallory raced upstairs and came back down with her laptop.

My hand shaking from adrenaline, I plugged the flash drive into the port.

We watched as Mallory clicked through to open the drive and then clicked on the lone yellow folder. Around two dozen photo icons were displayed. She opened the first one. It was an image of the spay and neuter van in the parking lot of Helping Paws Rescue. She kept clicking. They were all photos of the van, most from kind of far away like surveillance photos. We went back through them again.

“What do you think this means?” Willow asked, leaning over me to get a better view.

“I have no idea.” I stroked Lucky’s arched back as she walked across my legs to try to get between Mallory and the laptop.

Mallory scooped her up and draped her over a shoulder. She meowed in protest.

I leaned in closer. “They all have time stamps and different dates. Maybe that means something. Maybe Peter was trying to prove the van wasn’t actually going out to the low-income neighborhoods like they said they were. That’s what they were being accused of, though her explanation to Will was that the van had a transmission problem. If that was a lie, this could be evidence against Sassy White in that fraud case.”

“Then why wouldn’t Peter just turn it over to whoever was investigating the shelter?” Willow asked, twirling the tip of her braid around her finger. “Why would he hide the evidence?”

“Maybe he was using it against Sassy White somehow,” Mallory said.

“Like blackmail?” I rubbed my temple. Trying to get inside someone else’s head was making my own head thump. I couldn’t even figure out my own motives half the time.

Willow sighed and moved to stretch out on the floor. Goldie stretched out next to her and rolled over for belly rubs. “Blackmail, huh? Hey, didn’t you say Peter thought he was going to come into a lot of money? Maybe he was getting that money by blackmailing Sassy White with these photos.”

I gave her a doubtful look. “Do you know how much shelter directors make? Barely enough to survive. Besides, she wouldn’t have any problem supporting another shelter in the area if she had the money. Blackmail wouldn’t be necessary. It’s not like they’re in business competition.”

I jerked my foot as tiny teeth sank into my big toe. “Ouch, you little vampire!” I squealed at Petey. Scooping him up, I held him close to my chest. Two shiny eyes gleamed at me mischievously, and then he jumped up and bit my chin. I couldn’t help but laugh as I snuggled him into my neck. “And a rascal, too.

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