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Grady helped Tinsley into the truck, and he fired it up and tore out toward the rig.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Grady raced back to the oil rig, the plume of smoke growing larger the closer they got. When they approached the lot and turned in, they saw a food truck parked near the entrance, and men gathered around one injured man on the ground.
Tinsley saw her brother among them and practically jumped from the truck before Grady had a chance to put it in park.
“Bodie!” She ran to him. “Thank God you’re okay.”
He was shouting orders, then he got on a radio and called in a medivac helicopter.
“I’m fine. I’m okay, Tins. But I’ve got a man injured.”
“What happened?” Grady asked. “What can I do?”
“I don’t know. There was an explosion.” He looked at Tinsley. “It wasn’t a blowback. It was over at the fuel tanks.”
“What’s a blowback?” Grady asked.
“When the pressure backs up and blows up the pipe.”
Grady’s eyes drilled into Bodie’s. “The tanks. You think it was an accident?”
“No. No way. We’re too meticulous about safety.”
“Have you called Father?” Tinsley asked.
“Not yet.”
“I’ll get him on the line.” She pulled her phone out and made a call. While she was busy, Grady pulled Bodie to the side.
“You know why I was hired, right?”
“Threats.”
“Right. You think this could have something to do with that? Sabotage maybe?”
“Maybe.”
“The taco truck showed up, and we’d just stopped for a quick lunch break. Only reason we weren’t all closer to that explosion. If we’d had been on the derrick, no telling what would have happened. As it is, it blew all the east-facing windows out of the doghouse.”
“Could it be a disgruntled employee? Have you fired anyone recently?”
“Nah. Not in years.”
“You got security cameras in this place.”
“Yeah.”
“Let’s look at last night. Maybe while you were busy working the rig, someone was sneaking around the tanks.”
Tinsley knelt by the injured man, wiping the blood from his temple with the bandana she pulled from around her neck.
“Follow me.” Bodie led him up on the derrick and into the doghouse. He pulled up the tapes from last night and they watched them together.
Grady studied the film. “These are the perimeter cameras?”
“Yeah.”
