Page 116 of Help Me Remember
“That’s what I can’t work out. When Brie . . . when she was at her appointment yesterday, she said she heard his voice as the shooter.”
“And no one thought to tell me that?”
“It was sort of a rough day.”
Emmett nods. “Right. Carry on.”
“The thing is, Dr. Girardo doesn’t think the memory is real. He made a point to say it isn’t, but he didn’t explain what made him think that.”
“He doesn’t know Jax, right?”
I shake my head. “I doubt it. Not unless he met him sometime in the last few weeks.”
Emmett keeps moving along the timeline I laid out. “Is this everyone who came to the hospital?”
“Yes, all the visitors in and out.”
He quirks a brow. “And how did you manage to get it?”
“I didn’t steal it from you.” I huff. “I have a contact at the hospital.”
Emmett shakes his head. “I don’t even want to know.”
No, he definitely doesn’t. “Anyway, no one on it seems to have any connection to the attack or her office being trashed.”
“That’s the one part of this that has been unanswered. Are the two events connected, and if they are, what was the person looking for in her office? I thought the ring was the key.”
“So did she.”
“But we were wrong there since you’re the ring giver.”
I sigh. “The paperwork she’s missing is the key, but we can’t begin to know what paperwork she had.”
Emmett nods. “What else are you thinking?”
“I think it would be safe for us to explore the possibility that the events are connected, which means she was the target.”
Emmett sits in the chair across from where I’m leaning against the desk. “Why is that?”
“Everything leads back to Brielle, not Isaac. Since his death, nothing of his has been touched. The house is vacant and there has been no activity there. If it was about him, what he knew, or had, we would’ve had a move.”
“Most likely and her office was trashed.”
“She could see the murder, but not the face. She can hear a voice, knows it’s a man, but then says it’s Jax, whose voice sounds more feminine. Much higher than either of us at least.”
“You think it could be a woman?”
“That seems doubtful. It’s more likely that she was so desperate to hear the voice that her mind inserted Jax’s voice in its place. She ran into him at the awards dinner, and she knew him but couldn’t remember him. We also believe based on the position of Isaac’s body that he went for the shooter. He may have tried to neutralize the assailant and we all assume it was a man.”
That was one of the first things that everyone agreed on. The force of the blow and the angle in which she was hit suggests the assailant was a man. Plus, Isaac played defense from the time he was six until he graduated college. If anyone could take someone down forcefully, it was him.
“It’s possible, the evidence suggests a male. There also was that image off the camera of someone getting in a vehicle and the build fits a man.”
“I agree, but at this point, I’m not ruling anything out.”
“Okay, what were your other thoughts?” Emmett asks.
“This is what we need to get to the bottom of.”
