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“Go back a few frames,” she told him, watching carefully at Lauren’s mother. “There!”
Kayla jumped up and went to the screen.
“What?” Evan asked.
“Look at her. Go back a few more and then hit play, but watch her.” She pointed at the screen.
Evan did. “Damn.”
“She’s talking to someone. It’s so subtle.” Lauren pointed at it again.
“If we weren’t watching it this big, we never would have seen that.”
“I thought she was mumbling to herself, but watch her eyes. Someone is standing out of the camera range.”
“They’re letting her take the fall for this and staying out of the way. Dammit!”
Evan grabbed his phone and called someone, telling them what they had found. She stared at the screen, watching for any movement as it continued to play in front of her. Hopefully, they would see something, a reflection in the car, something to tell them who they were dealing with.
“Jake’s on it,” Evan told her as he ended the call.
“Keep playing it. Take it just to this one shot.”
He removed the split screen and Kayla backed away from the screen so she could see it better. They spent another half an hour reviewing the clip from before they arrived until well after they were gone. Whoever she spoke to knew where the cameras were.
“That has to be who emailed me,” Kayla said. “It was too professional sounding to be Lauren’s mother I think.”
“That’s what Cade was saying last night. It seemed like it wasn’t from her—it was nowhere near demanding enough.”
“Not needy.”
“Exactly,” Evan agreed and then cut off the video. “I’ll pull up the access records now and see if we have anything on there we can sort out.”
She waited as he did. It was mostly timestamps and IP addresses, not something she was going to be much help with.
“Okay, let me do something,” Evan said thoughtfully from the back of the room.
He sorted the list and then plugged in some numbers, hiding some results.
“What did you do?” she asked.
“That is the IP address of the restaurant. I’d say it was safe to assume the other one that is in here often is your house, so I’ll exclude that one too.”
“There are only a few others but they’re old. They could be my work or my house from when we were setting everything up. Nothing unknown that was recent.”
“But then if they used the restaurant to get to it, it would have been in the ones we excluded.”
“Possibly, not the tech guy in this scenario.” He punched a few more numbers in. “That eliminates my house, but again, they’re really old logins.”
“So this was a bust for looking up.”
Evan nodded. “It was worth a shot.”
She agreed. “Have you heard anything from Catherine or her guy?” Kayla asked.
“Not yet.”
“I haven’t heard from the blackmailer again. What if they really have something? I can’t just let them ruin this.”
