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My feet were already rushing for the elevator. “My locker?”
“Yes.” The sound of people talking came and went. “I was getting off shift, and as I went to leave, I noticed the bolt was broken on your lock. Security hasn’t found anything, and I can’t tell if anything is missing.”
Likely nothing since I never kept more than a change of clothes in there when I wasn’t on duty.
“I was hoping you could come in, check the contents?”
The elevator doors opened in the basement. Eli swiveled to face me as I rushed across the room.
“Actually, Meredith, I’m—” Where was I? What excuse could I come up with? “I’m out of town with Brooke for a little girl time this weekend.”
Eli raised an eyebrow. I could practically see the wheels turning as he worked to put the pieces together from only one side of the discussion.
“I don’t think I can get back until my next shift. Would you be willing to take my things out of my locker and take them home with you? I can pick them up from you Monday.” Maybe.
“Aren’t you worried something might be missing?”
“If my change of clothes and the picture of Brooke are still there, nothing was taken.”
A pause. “The clothes are here. I don’t see a picture of Brooke.” The sound of jostling came through. “Security has already been here, but short of catching someone out of place on a camera, there’s not really much they can do,” she told me, voice full of sympathy.
And from what Eli had said, the chances of anyone catching Ross or his associate on a camera was slim. But why would they take Brooke’s picture?
My eyes met Eli’s. “No, that’s fine. I can meet with them when I get back.”
“Are you sure, dear?”
Meredith still sounded anxious. My heart ached that she’d been drawn into this, however peripherally, but there was simply nothing I could do about it right now. “I’m sure. Thank you so much for calling me. I’ll see you on Monday.”
I clicked off the call, gesturing toward the security feeds with my phone. “They were at the hospital, searching my locker.”
Eli immediately got to work. “Was there anything there for them to find?”
I wish there had been. Then this nightmare could end for both myself and Brooke. “No.”
Eli brought up a feed that looked like the parking garage I usually parked in. Was that camera new, or had it been there for a while? Had Remi been watching me at work as well as at home?
Eli cracked his knuckles. “Let’s see what we can find out then.”
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Chapter Fourteen
Remi —
“Why the hell didn’t you call me?”
We’d been so fucking late. Late, doing stuff that had zero connection with the most important thing in my life right now, and while I’d been gone...
Fuck!
Eli stopped typing, glanced heavenward like he was praying for strength, then swiveled his chair to face me. “What were you gonna do that I couldn’t?”
That wasn’t the point. The point was that my woman had needed me. Or I’d needed her—to hold her, keep her from breaking apart, going insane. I hadn’t been here, damn it.
And I was taking it out on Eli. Shoving a hand through my hair, I took a lap around the room, desperate to walk off the emotion sending my pulse into heart attack territory.
“Leah did try to call, but you were in the high security area at the time. I told her not to worry about it.”
