Free DEAD SEXY by Caitlin Falls Page A

cameras would have seen him!”
    Do you know where it’s kept?”
    “Yes. I found out after…after I turned Jason in. I had to go down and watch a video, in the operations room. It’s on the 35 th floor.”
    “Can you get into it?”
    “Yes.”
    “We need to go right now. If Kevin is the guilty party he’ll have that tape out of there and ‘lost’ before the day shift gets to work.”
    “Only people with access cards can get into the floors above the 25 th . That is…”
    “I know all of that. Somebody is helping him.”
    “Who would do that?” Jenna asked. “I mean when Jason left the company nobody mourned. Except maybe his father, but he’s retired and has been almost since. I think Dunning gave him a large severance package to leave earlier.”
    “Did Dean have any close friends, anyone who is still at the company that might want your job bad enough to help set you up?”
    Jenna shook her head. “The company doesn’t encourage friendships between its employees, especially if you make over five figures yearly. They want competition; they want people willing to do whatever it takes to make it.”
    “Apparently Dean took that to heart,” Blake observed.
    Jenna knew the policies were wrong and bad. She knew that the company deliberately fostered ill will and hostility to keep its executives on their toes; after all, anyone could take your job at any moment. Was someone willing to do whatever it took to get hers, even if it meant helping someone commit murder?
    She cast her mind about; trying to imagine which lower executive would be gunning, literally, for her. “There are a few outgoing executives whose jobs would be easier to get.”
    “Yes, but this is not just about the job, this is about you, and Jason Dean. There has to be two people working on this—someone from inside and Kevin.”
    “He’s a cop!” Jenna protested, “Surely he wouldn’t kill somebody!”
    Blake knew he was risking everything but he had to, he had to trust her if only to save her life. He pointed to the picture she had asked about before, “He was seventeen. He was a criminal, make no mistake, but he was raised by a family not much different than yours.
    “The difference was that he enjoyed being a criminal, he liked the cache and the money and the girls and everything else. He had a father that was one of the biggest players in their neighborhood and he wanted to keep that legacy alive, he wanted to be his father’s son.
    “Kevin killed him. I saw it happen, and I did nothing to stop it or to bring Kevin to justice. At the time I just decided I owed him for saving my life in combat and I walked away. The force was full of cops on the take and job was usually spent between trying to undo the damage caused by them and trying to keep the peace between the two sides.
    “His name was Darius and he was not at all willing to play the games that others were willing to pay. He refused to pay up, and he wound up dead one night. Kevin wanted me to plant a gun and I said no and walked away.
    “If Kevin did kill Tom, I am responsible.” When he looked at her his eyes were bleak. “Kevin is a killer, cold and hard as can be. I know that and I do not want him anywhere near you.”
    “You said someone has to be helping him.”
    “Yes, it is the only thing that makes sense.”
    “Then we have to find out who is helping him. And you’re right, we have to go get that tape because if he does have help, it’s someone who can get him up and down the elevators, and if they can do that, they can get access to everything.”
    “Could they get access to all the files if they knew where they all were?”
    “Yes, but…but nobody really knows who has what. We know who we work with, and who handles what, but there are five floors just like mine, and basically the accounts are scattered throughout.”
    “To prevent embezzling.”
    “Yes.”
    “It doesn’t seem to be working so well.”
    “No, it doesn’t.”
    “Come on, as much