Promise Not to Tell by Jayne Ann Krentz

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 34

“What do you want from me?” Kate Delbridge demanded. “The police already took my statement. HR sent out a memo telling everyone at the company that we aren’t supposed to talk to anyone except the cops.”

“Which is, of course, why the news of Sandra Porter’s death is all over the social media sites that the local tech crowd likes to use,” Virginia said.

They were standing in the hallway outside Kate’s apartment. Cabot had agreed to let her take the lead. She was following a hunch because neither she nor Cabot had been able to go deep into the latest social media sites that the young tech crowd favored. But given the way the world worked these days, she figured it was a safe bet that employees from Night Watch had done a lot of communicating about the murder.

Kate frowned at Cabot. “Who are you guys? Local TV? I don’t see any cameras.”

“I’m a private investigator,” Cabot said. “I’m investigating a case that may have a connection to the death of Sandra Porter.”

Kate switched her attention back to Virginia. “Are you his assistant or something?”

“No,” Virginia said. “I’m his client. Sandra Porter died in the back room of my gallery.”

“Oh.” Kate absorbed that information. “I read somewhere that the gallery owner found the body.”

“That’s right,” Virginia said. “You can understand why I’m interested in Sandra Porter’s murder.”

“Okay, I guess that makes sense,” Kate said. “But the fact is, I didn’t know Sandra Porter very well. She was a loner and she worked in IT. When I ran into her in the halls, she ignored me. All I can tell you is what I told the cops. People at work are saying that Sandra was seeing someone but she was very secretive about it. I got the impression that she’d been dumped recently. She was always intense but after that she got a little scary.”

“We know she lost her job at Night Watch,” Virginia said. “We know the official reason—she left to pursue other career opportunities. We also know that’s not the real reason. Why do you think she was fired?”

Kate shrugged. “Some people are saying she got into drugs. But there have been rumors that she might have been embezzling funds. Management probably couldn’t prove it, so they just let her go.”

“That’s often the way big firms deal with embezzlers,” Cabot said. “It avoids the bad publicity.”

“What did you mean when you said that Sandra got scary?” Virginia asked.

“It’s hard to explain,” Kate said. “She seemed to be seething all the time. And she had mood swings. One day I found her sobbing in the restroom. I asked her if she was okay. She told me to fuck off.”

“Do you think she might have been the embezzler?” Cabot asked.

“I guess we’ll all find out soon enough,” Kate said. “If she was the one who was skimming off money, the losses should stop, right?” Kate started to close the door. “Look, that’s all I can tell you. I really don’t know anything else.

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