Page 30 of Justified Fear

Again, silence filled the room.She looked at her father, who had just returned to the room.He wore a bleak expression.“Keekee, if they lied about their names, that’s not a good thing.”

Keely looked around the room, then her gaze locked with his.

“Just how bad were these guys?I’m assuming if they lied, they were bad.”

“We haven’t been able to figure out what the hell is going on.You said that they had security on the property?”

She nodded.“Well, not people.There were a lot of cameras.”

Another shared look which had her blood icing.What was going on?

“I swear.There was no real security there.I thought it odd, too.”

“Why?”Ryan asked.

“Well, I’ve done these parties before.Granted, this one was more intimate.But if these people were as well off as the Kellys, then I would expect at least one person walking the grounds.I know when Mom and Dad do stuff like that, they have extra security.”

Their house was actually out on some acreage, but they still made sure to keep their guests safe.

“And you had no sense of them having any?”Kap asked.

She shook her head.“I didn’t meet anyone, and there was no one out back when I went that way.Like when I hosted that dinner party on Maui, they wanted to know my whole background.The Kellys said it was no big deal.”

“And they hired you off the site?”

She nodded.

Kap looked over at Ryan.“We need to talk to your father and you.”

She frowned at the idea.“Will this take long?I have a life lesson to give over at Randall High today.”

“Life lesson?”

She nodded.“I teach high schoolers how to build a budget for their food.Home Economics has sort of disappeared, but everyone needs to learn how to build a pantry.I approached my local high school, but then word got around, so I do one or two of them a month.”

“It shouldn’t take long.”

She nodded as her father came over to her side.

Regret filled Ryan’s expression.“We’ll need to talk to you separately.”

There was a long moment of silence.She looked at her father, then back to Ryan.

“Do I need to call Aunty Lulu?”her father asked.

“You’re not under investigation,” Commander Delano said.“We want to make sure that this has nothing to do with your daughter.”

“You just said?—”

“I mean, we want to go through both of your memories to make sure that someone isn’t coming after her.If we do it separately, it might jog your memories.”

He drew in a deep breath, then released it.“You okay with this?”

“Of course.Let’s hurry, though, because you promised me a trip to Ray’s Cafe before we go out to Randall.”

“I didn’t forget, KeeKee.”

Her father left with Del and Seth, while she was led into an interrogation room by Ryan and Kap.It wasn’t an office, but she didn’t care.She didn’t have anything to hide.