Page 131 of Family Bonds- Kelsey & Van

“Are you sure you didn’t lose power?”

“I would have gotten a notification if that was the case. Go!” he hissed.

Van moved past her into the house, walking around to make sure it was clear. There was no sign of anyone, but he knew someone had been in his office.

He flipped the light on and saw a drawer shut that he always left open a little on purpose.

He let out a sigh and went to get Kelsey. “Come on. It’s clear. Frankie is all worked up, but I didn’t let him out of the crate yet. I didn’t want him running through the house until I knew it was clear.”

“Was someone in the house?” she asked.

“Yes. I need to call the police. I’m going to call Jarrett over Mac.”

“Do you think this is connected?”

“I do,” he said. “Someone was going through my desk.”

He didn’t explain to her how he knew, just talked to Jarrett who said he’d be right over.

“You should have called me,” Mac Bond said, fifteen minutes later when he arrived with his brother.

“I should have,” he said. “But I think this is connected to the case Jarrett is handling. Two of my properties now.”

“You’re sure someone was in the house?” Mac asked.

He turned to the chief of police. “Don’t you set traps in your house?”

“Of course,” Mac said.

“Always,” Jarrett said.

“Well, so do I. Someone was in the office looking for something,” he said.

“Do you know if anything is missing?” Jarrett asked.

“I’m going to find out, but first I’m going to pull up the security cameras. I’ll know when they were shut off and wanted to make sure I did this all while the police were involved.”

“Why?” Kelsey asked, holding Frankie in her arms.

“Because you don’t want to worry about any tampering,” Mac said. “Van would know this. It keeps the investigation cleaner.”

He pulled his laptop out and they saw exactly when the alarms were shut off. They’d have no idea when the person left since they weren’t turned back on. Whoever it was knew the code to get into the house and the alarms.

That bothered him more than anything.

“Who set up this system, do you know?” Mac asked.

“I’ve got a card here somewhere. I’m going to call and see if they can see something I’m not able to.” He went through the camera feed and tried to scan any movement in the front and didn’t see anything. No one coming through the front of the property.

“Go back,” Jarrett said. “Lights flickered there.”

He rewound and noticed on another screen that his motion lights in the back came on, but an animal could have caused that. Only he didn’t think so when it was a minute before his alarm went off.

“There is a door to the garage back there. You need a key for it,” he said.

“Which might explain how someone got in,” Jarrett said.

“Do you know anyone that Barry might have given a key to?” Kelsey asked. “I’m positive my father knew how to get in the house, but he was at the wedding and he’d never do that.”

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