Unknown Enemy by Michelle Karl

Author:Michelle Karl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

Colin paced back and forth in front of the library meeting room where Ginny and Dr. Hilden worked feverishly on the tablet translations. They needed to get the work done as fast and as accurately as possible—Colin saw that now—because it very well could provide the greatest clue as to the reason behind these attacks and why the tablets had been stolen.

Dr. Hilden hadn’t been all that impressed by Colin’s assertion that he and Ginny needed to work on the report as long as possible today, but while the man’s obvious superiority complex rubbed him the wrong way, Colin chalked it up to the stress of the situation. Dr. Hilden couldn’t be having an easy time of it, trying to explain to Amar’s government that its ancient artifacts had disappeared on the other side of the world while he was supposed to be looking out for them.

Here in the United States, an incident like that—even though it hadn’t been the man’s fault that they’d been stolen, or Ginny’s for that matter—would get a person stripped of his or her job position and torn apart in the media. So far, Colin hadn’t seen any local or national news about it, which meant the police and the college were doing a good job of keeping things under wraps.

On the other hand, a lack of public awareness meant the local police hadn’t received any outside leads. Chief Black had called to let Colin know they’d immediately begun some internal questioning of college staff to try to piece together the break-in and disappearance of the stun grenade, but Colin had a theory that the investigation would do nothing beyond reveal where the college lacked in general security—such as not having cameras trained on important closets, no matter how tightly locked down anyone believed them to be. As for Sam’s description to the sketch artist, the person who’d told him about Ginny’s car being towed had actually been another student. The police had located the student and were interrogating him about the situation, which Chief Black believed would result in yet another sketch being taken. It meant more time wasted, which they didn’t have.

As he paced, Colin scoured online auction sites for evidence of the tablets on the black market. When he came up empty, he resorted to calling every major museum in the country to warn them against anyone trying to sell ancient Amaran tablets without paperwork.

They said goodbye to Dr. Hilden around nine o’clock, and Colin took a barely coherent, half-asleep Ginny back to the motel so she could rest. He’d suspected she would want to continue working on the translations through the weekend, but he hadn’t expected to be awakened at a quarter to seven in the morning by a rap on the car window. He awoke from a restless sleep to see Ginny and the officer who’d spelled him for a few hours standing outside the car. The officer gave an apologetic shrug when Colin shot him a questioning glance.

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