Page 10 of New Beginnings
Regardless of what he believed about her, I wasn’t ruling it out until I could prove it.
“Are you good with watching surveillance footage of her?” I asked, concerned whether he could handle seeing her. “You might see something that I missed.”
I didn’t want to cause him any discomfort. I can’t imagine what he was going through especially finding out she lied to him the same day she died.
Could all this be because she was cheating on him? Maybe a lover’s quarrel turned into a murder?
His deep sigh pulled me from my thoughts.
“I can handle it. Show me what you got.”
I nodded then turned my attention back to the screen of my computer.
“First, we’ll look at footage from the daycare. I have her inside the daycare and outside.”
He leaned forward, anger marring his face. “The cops said there wasn’t any footage from the daycare. That it had been erased.”
“No, it wasn’t destroyed.” I looked at him. “But I did find out a large sum of money had been paid to the daycare owner, the day after your wife’s death. I don’t know if there’s a connection, but it’s possible.”
“How did you get your hands on it?”
A smile spread across my face. “I have my ways.”
He smirked and nodded. Turning my attention back to the computer, I started the security camera footage from in front ofthe daycare. It showed Dani pull up in her car, then park in front of the building.
He gasped when she exited the car. I reached out for his hand to give him a little comfort, but I quickly dropped it. That was overstepping the boundaries. He was a client. Nothing more. Nothing less. But I understood it must have been hard to see someone you loved who was no longer alive.
I focused my attention on the computer screen, looking for something I missed. I know it was there. Maybe a second pair of eyes could pick it up.
She rushed around the front of the car to the back door of the passenger side, yanked the door open, then pulled their daughter from her car seat.
“What time...” He paused. “What time was this?”
“Time stamp said, seven forty-five.”
He inhaled a deep breath, then released it, as we both watched her take their daughter inside the school. I paused the footage from outside, then pulled up the one of her walking inside the school.
“This shows her inside the school.”
I didn’t wait for him to respond before I pressed play. It was pretty routine. She stopped at the desk that sat not too far from the front door, signed the paper on the desk, then rushed down the hall, before disappearing in the room at the end.
“She’s in a hurry,” he mumbled. “Where the fuck are you going?”
Dani exited the classroom after only three minutes, pulled her phone from her purse, then exited the building.
“Although there was no sound to the video, I know she received a phone call at this time. Was it you?”
“No,” he said, shaking his head. “I was on a run.”
I didn’t know what a run was, and I wouldn’t ask.
“I was able to get her phone records.”
His eyebrows shot up in surprise as he looked at me.
“Caesar didn’t tell you much about me, I assume.”
“No.”
