Mind Bender by Linsey Lanier

Author:Linsey Lanier [Lanier, Linsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9781941191439
Publisher: Felicity Books
Published: 2017-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

The next day was a downer.

Miranda dragged herself into the office that morning to discover Parker had brought in a small team of background checkers and bodyguards to work for OT on Sunday. They were set up in the main cube area, already busy on their laptops and phones. Miranda recognized Bill Taylor and Amir Khan from her IIT class. She didn’t know the others.

Hoping Parker didn’t want her to take charge of them, too, she zipped down the aisle and headed for the lab. There she found Holloway and Becker hunched over their laptops.

From the look on Holloway’s face Becker hadn’t shared the intel he’d learned about Drew Iwasaki last night.

She was grateful for that.

The smell of strong coffee made her mouth water. Turning her head she saw another round of bagels spread out along the counter. Apparently Becker had brought enough for everyone. The new team had devoured the fare, leaving crumbs and empty boxes and open containers of cream cheese in their wake.

Miranda glanced at the time on her phone. Nine-forty-five. She put a hand on her hip and turned to Holloway. “You weren’t supposed to come in until ten.”

“I slept as long as I could, Steele,” he said without looking up from his screen.

He did look a little better. His clothes were fresh and his hair was combed. But dark circles lingered under his eyes.

Beside him Becker looked concerned but he didn’t say anything.

“Anything promising yet?” she asked.

“Not really.”

Giving up on conversation, Miranda got her laptop and set up next to the bagels on the counter. She began by reviewing the progress the others had made, going through the transcripts from calls coming in to the police from the public.

It was hours of tedious work that led nowhere. One caller was convinced the mystery man in the photo on the news was her ex-boyfriend, but one of the bodyguards had called her mother and discovered the boyfriend was Irish and had red hair. Not even a vague match.

A dozen people said they had seen the couple getting out of the white van and running across a field together. Most of them mentioned a location different from where the van had actually been found. Nobody could say where the couple had gone. One guy said the woman in the photo of Audrey was his ex-wife. An old lady insisted she was her daughter, a woman one of the background checkers confirmed had passed away a year ago.

The time ticked by. Parker had sandwiches brought in for lunch, and Miranda ate hers alone in her office, letting the others enjoy a few moments of camaraderie with their peers. She used to be one of them and she missed it. Lonely at the top.

But it was Audrey Wilson’s situation that consumed her thoughts. They were getting nowhere and time might be running out for Holloway’s ex. The guy in black named Drew Iwasaki might be hacking her to pieces at this very moment and there was nothing she could do about it.

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