“Hey!” I snapped.
He raised his hands in a mock surrender and checked his phone.
“Angela is being walked out of the building now.” He said and started to gather his belongings. “I need a list of anything that my guy needs to look into and erase by tonight. He will getstarted as soon as I give it to him.” He paused at the door and looked back at me with a serious expression “I know you are planning on going home tonight. You need to be careful. Admit to nothing other than the story we have crafted and try your best to not piss her off. Get anything that has evidence on it out of the house when you leave.”
“If it all goes the way I think it will, I’ll be back home for good tonight.” I glowered at him.
The lack of faith in my ability to smooth things over with my wife was annoying.
“I know she’s pissed, but I’m all she’s ever known… she loves me too much to lose me over one mistake.” I said confidently. “She’s just going to make me sweat a little and grovel.” I rolled my eyes.
He raised an eyebrow and nodded slowly. “I’ll be in contact after I speak with Ms. Reed.”
“Thank you, Frank.”
“Don’t thank me yet… we are still in the deep end of this fiasco.”
9-Melanie
“Good morning, you’ve reached the office for Griffin Bose, Chief Cybersecurity Officer at KG Securities. My name is Paulie; how can I help you today?”
“Hi Paulie, it’s Melanie Landon… uh Kyle Walsh’s sister. I need to speak to Griffin about something personal and urgent.” I sounded more confident than I felt.
“Of course, let me see if he’s available to take your call. One moment please.” Paulie put me on hold but returned just a moment later. “Mr. Bose is available. Take care.”
“Melanie?” Griffin sounded concerned. “Is Kyle alright? I just got back from the funeral last night, but he was okay when I left.”
“Good morning, Griffin, as far as I know Kyle is fine. I’m actually calling you because I want to avoid involving Kyle.”
“Okay… You left in a rush last night, if I’m remembering correctly…” Griffin’s tone was cautious.
“That’s correct.” I took a deep breath and then let it out, “to discover that my husband is having an affair.”
“What?! Are you serious?” Griffin sounded pissed, “Kyle is going to kick Ben’s ass.”
“I don’t want Kyle to know, yet.” I could hear a hint of desperation creeping into my voice. “I’m calling you personally, because I knew that if I submitted a request for the security footage over the past week it would flag for Kyle, and he has enough to deal with.”
“I can get you that footage.” Griffin assured me, “but Melanie, you know that Kyle would want to know what’s going on with you…”
“I’m going back to North Dakota next week, as soon as I get things sorted here enough to go and I will tell him and my parents then.” I grimaced. They were going to be so disappointed in Ben. While they hadn’t been happy that we were getting married so young, they had loved him like he was their own.
“Is there anything else you need?” Griffin asked.
“I don’t think we use KG Securities for anything other than our home security system… do we?”
“Let me check… uh, it looks like you and Ben have three home security systems registered with us. One of them is your primary residence, one is located in Vegas, and one is located in Miami.”
I flinched away from the phone in surprise.
“What?” I knew about the Miami residence. Ben had bought that when he secured his first million dollars; it was just acondo near the Miami office. Since Miami was where they held a lot of the conferences, he thought it was a good investment. He let clients use it when they were in town. I didn’t realize we were using the security company for it, though.
“What property in Vegas?” I asked.
“It looks like there is a condo with a doorbell camera and one interior motion detected camera. It was added to the account last year.”
“Can I have all of the footage from that one.” I gritted out. “The past week from my home, and I’ll get back to you about Miami when I cross check the dates. He can’t delete any of the footage, right?”
“Nope. It’s all backed up here and I’ll personally store a copy of everything just in case.” I could hear him typing on the keyboard.
