Page 50 of Montana Manhunt

The lawyer glared at Noah. “Are you seriously asking me if I had a woman here after what I told you?”

The operative held up both hands. “Look at it this way, Counselor. We have to eliminate you so we can move on to other suspects on our list.”

He huffed. “Well, thank God you have other people on the list besides me. To answer your question, no one else was here. I hoped she would change her mind about spending the evening with me. Truthfully, I would have been more than happy to order a pizza as long as I could spend time with her. The reservations didn’t matter. I just wanted to spend more time with her.”

Bradley dragged a hand down his face. “I should have stayed with her and helped however I could. My selfishness cost the woman I loved her life.”

“Did Cami tell you what was worrying her?” Violet asked. While she hated to hear the lawyer berate himself for somethingthat wasn’t his fault, Violet was more interested in finding out what was troubling her sister. If she knew that, she and Noah might track down the killer or mark more suspects off their list. At the moment, the only person in Morrison she knew without a doubt was innocent of Cami’s murder was Mrs. White. Everyone else was still a suspect.

“Like I said before, I don’t know. I’m sorry. Besides, you know she would have protected her kids’ privacy as fiercely as I protect my clients.”

“Do you know of anyone who would want to hurt Cami?”

Bradley remained silent a moment before slowly shaking his head. “I don’t know of anyone. Everyone loved her.”

“At least one person didn’t.” Noah folded his arms on his chest. “Otherwise, she would still be alive. Do you have a security system here?”

“Yes, I do.”

“Cameras?”

“Of course.”

A nod. “Good. Since you’re innocent of Camilla’s murder, you won’t mind giving me access to the system and allowing me to download footage from the night she died.”

Bradley’s jaw tightened. “Neat way to box me in. Knock yourself out, Noah. I have no secrets.”

“I hope not because in a murder investigation, every secret comes out.”

“Are you threatening me?”

“Nope. Just a word to the wise. If you or anyone else has any secrets, I’ll find out. The killer won’t get away with his crime. Justice will be served.”

“Duly noted.” He stood. “Come with me.”

Bradley led Violet and Noah to a small room behind the stairs. He turned on the light and motioned to the table with four monitors spread across the surface and a laptop. On eachmonitor, the screen was divided into four sectors, each with a camera view of a different part of the house’s exterior.

The lawyer sat in the chair in front of the table and tapped a few keys, then opened a box with flash drives inside. Bradley selected one and inserted it into the drive. “How much footage do you want to see?”

“The day before Camilla died through the day after she was killed.”

After a long stare at him, Bradley complied. A minute later, he removed the flash drive and handed it to Noah. “Have fun with all the hours of boring footage. Before you ask, I don’t know enough about the system to erase my coming and going. What’s on the drive is exactly how things happened.”

Noah’s smile was wintry. “If you tampered with the footage, we’ll be back. You can take it to the bank that you won’t like the return visit.”

Bradley surged to his feet. “If there’s nothing else, I have another appointment in a couple of minutes.”

“Bradley.” Violet waited until the lawyer who loved Cami faced her. “Thank you for your help.”

“No matter what your boyfriend believes, I didn’t kill Camilla. I loved her with every breath I took, and I will never get over her loss.”

“Neither will I.”

Noah rested his hand against her lower back. “We need to go,” he murmured. “Time for our other errands.”

Although she nodded and walked from the security room ahead of her boyfriend, Violet’s emotions were so overwhelming that she couldn’t remember where they needed to go next.

They said goodbye to the receptionist and left the Victorian home with Grant and Rayne a few steps behind them.

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