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Tevin paused. “Jason? I didn’t know he was in Texas.”

Olive hadn’t expected to hear the strange edge to his voice. “I didn’t either.”

“I decided to come out and see if there was anything I could do to help,” Jason explained.

“I see,” Tevin muttered. “Well, it’s always good to have backup around.”

But Tevin knew better than anyone that Jason was more than just backup.

Tevin had been there when Olive had first run into Jason while on assignment in Chicago. He knew more of the details of their past than anyone else. He’d seen the two of them interact.

“What’s going on?” Tevin sounded much more professional now than he probably would if Jason wasn’t present.

“I’m going to send you an address, and I’d love if you could look into who’s owned the place for the past eight or nine years.”

“That sounds easy enough.”

“I’m hoping it will be,” Olive said. “To be up front, this is personal and not connected with Rebecca’s case.”

“I kind of figured. I’ll see what I can find out.” Tevin paused. “I also have an update for you.”

Olive leaned back. “I could use an update.”

“It’s about those cameras that were planted in Rebecca’s house.”

She sat up straighter, any relaxed muscles tightening. “Did you find out something about them? Because we went to the location where the IP address was apparently pinging, but it looked absolutely abandoned, like it hadn’t been touched in years.”

“I’m not sure why that happened. Without being there, it’s way more complicated to try to figure out. However, the interesting thing is that I figured out a way to hack into these cameras at Rebecca’s house.”

Her eyebrows flew up. “You did? That doesn’t feel quite ethical.”

“No, it doesn’t, does it? I realize that, which is why I haven’t turned the cameras on to watch anything. I wasn’t sure what you wanted me to do.”

That was a good question. What did she want?

Olive thought about that question, not wanting to rush her answer.

CHAPTER 43

Olive turned the possibilities over in her mind a moment, weighing each option.

Finally, she said, “Rebecca and Matt are at the hospital right now anyway, and I suspect Matt won’t be coming home tonight. So let’s wait on the decision. I don’t suppose you can see anything historical on the camera feed, can you?”

“No, I don’t have access to the server. Just to the feed in real time.”

“Good to know. Thank you for your work on that. And I’ll let you know about the camera feed.”

“Sure thing.” He paused. “If you need anything else, call me. In the meantime, I’ll look into that house. Go ahead and send me the address.”

“Will do.”

Olive ended the call, sent over the address, and then turned to Jason, studying his expression. His gaze showed he was deep in thought, analyzing the conversation.

She’d always appreciated people who didn’t have knee-jerk reactions to situations.

“I think your response was a good call,” Jason said. “It’s one thing to have cameras on people when they’re in public or even in an office setting. But I’m not sure how I feel about spying on someone in their own home.”

“I agree. There are some ethical dilemmas that come with this job, unfortunately.”

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