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I could do with some ice cream.

“Okay.”

Alice fist-pumps the air, and I chuckle, feeling lighter in the swell of the night breeze than I have felt in a long time. I even have hope—just a glimmer—that everything will be alright.

Chapter 22

Michael

“You sent for me?” Peter says as he walks into my office.

“Yes,” I nod. “Please take a seat.”

He does, and I close my laptop, placing both hands on the desk. “For the first time, I am stumped,” I say.

“Oh? What happened?”

I don’t know where to begin. I watched it over and over, reading each second of the time frame to make sure it wasn’t a glitch caused by tampering with the footage.

“Michael?”

“This morning, Brenda handed me an envelope as soon as I walked into the office. In the envelope was a flash drive and a piece of paper. On the paper, there were instructions to watch the video alone as it could taint the case.”

Peter looks visibly concerned. “What’s on it?”

The last thing I expected to see. “A video of Savannah in Brandon’s apartment an hour before the estimated time of death.”

His mouth falls open.

“A video?”

I nod. “I think it might be doctored, but I don’t know yet. I sent it to my tech team after my initial shock had passed, but I think you should take a look at it.”

He all but grabs the laptop when I hand it to him, and I watch the look of disbelief that clouds his face when he watches. The video, which shows Savannah in the living room and is ten seconds long, plays on a loop as Peter keeps hitting the replay button.

In the end, he pushes the laptop back to me.

“No,” he says.

“No?” I ask.

“Yeah,” he nods, voice ringing with conviction. “That’s not Savannah. I mean, it looks like her, but it’s not her. I bet you’ll find out that someone doctored the video.”

It was the same thing I was thinking because I couldn’t wrap my head around why Savannah would leave out a detail like this.

“Okay. That’s good, then. I just thought you needed to know because things are about to unravel.”

“What do you mean?”

I exhale. “We already know that Eric has been eliminated as a suspect because he exited the building where there were no cameras, and only one person saw him come out of Brandon’s house,” I continue.

“And when you look at things, if he was in the house, there should be a video of him in the house. Yet, when we checked through the evidence, there are no security cameras.”

Peter gets the direction of my explanation, nodding intently.

“That means that whoever killed Brandon wants her, not even some other person, but Savannah framed for the murder. They must have installed a camera to catch her on tape and then took it down before killing Brandon. That is why we didn’t find anycameras, and why Eric wasn’t caught on tape,” Peter finishes the story.

I snap my fingers, pleased at his ability to quickly connect the dots. “Yes. So, who? That is the question.”

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