Undercurrent by Sara K. Parker

Author:Sara K. Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

By the time Kat and Sam reached the conference room, Kat’s nerves were on edge. She was anxious to hear what Nick’s team had discovered.

“Right in here,” Officer Callahan said, opening the door and letting them pass through. He motioned to one side of the table and took a seat across from them. A laptop was already set up, and Nick waited for them to sit before he spoke.

“What I tell you in this room must be kept confidential,” he said. Ice filtered through Kat’s veins.

“We’ve found clear evidence through surveillance footage that someone planted an explosive device on that chandelier.”

Nick turned the laptop toward them, scrolling the mouse over and opening a file. “This is what we’ve got.”

Kat leaned forward, and so did Sam, his arm pressing against hers as the footage rolled. The camera angle captured a short length of hallway and part of a balcony overhanging the atrium. The time stamp ran on the lower left of the screen. A little after one o’clock, the morning of the explosion.

“There’s your man. Watch carefully. See if you recognize anything about him at all.”

He slowly entered the frame, head down and face hidden by a plain black baseball cap. Kat leaned in closer, searching for anything identifying. He wore dark cargos and a black windbreaker. The footage was grainy. She couldn’t see if he wore a wedding band on his hand. His shoes weren’t visible in the frame.

“And here he goes.”

The perpetrator turned his back to the camera and smoothly withdrew a small object from his side pocket. Keeping his hands concealed under the balcony railing, he moved a few inches to his right, stepping just outside of the frame. Only the side of one leg remained visible.

Frustrated, Kat leaned closer to the screen, willing the image to clear up. “Do other cameras capture better angles?”

“Look, right there.”

The perp’s right hand came into view as he discreetly unfolded what appeared to be a narrow extension pole, locking it one segment at a time, one-handed, as he let the pole extend down and out of the frame.

It was only a matter of seconds. The man was quick. Had likely practiced the maneuver many times before the operation. The pole moved up higher in the frame and couldn’t be seen again.

“He used that to lower the device onto the chandelier,” Nick said.

The entire clip lasted two minutes and twelve seconds. Then the man casually walked out of the frame again.

The blank screen stared back at them, the time stamp ticking away. Kat watched it, stunned.

A bomb, then.

Had it been meant for her?

“The guy I saw right before the explosion was wearing a dark ball cap,” Sam pointed out. “And the person Kat saw in the hallway last night.”

“Anything else familiar?” Nick asked.

“Hard to tell. Where’d he come from?” Sam demanded. “There has to be more footage.”

Nick looked just as frustrated. “We’re looking, Sam. It’s as if the guy appeared out of nowhere. We’re checking every camera angle for the thirty minutes prior to his showing up at this location.

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