“Where are you going?” I asked as I followed him.
“To pull up the diagram of the house and see if all the sensors are on and active,” he said as he furiously typed and clicked while staring at the monitor.
“Motherfucker!” he shouted causing me to jump.
“What?” I asked.
He turned the monitor around for me to see and pointed at something on the screen. “This is the floor plan of your rental house. The green lines indicate security sensors. Every entry point should have a green line, including the windows and the attic door.” He tapped his finger against the screen, “See this right here. This is the kitchen door.”
“And there’s no green line,” I observed.
“Exactly. Now I want to know who in the fuck tampered with my system,” he spat.
“Wouldn’t you get an alert of some kind when that happened?”
“Yeah, unless it happened when the system had been disarmed by the master code,” he explained.
“Who has access to the master code?”
“Only me, Copper, and Bronze,” he said.
My mouth dropped open and I covered it with my hand. “You don’t think they had something to do with this, do you?”
He scoffed. “Of course not. I trust them implicitly. I don’t know what in the hell is going on, but I can promise you, I will fucking find out.”
“Is there anything I can do to help?” I asked hopefully.
He grinned. “Yeah, get your naked ass in my bed. I’ll be in there in just a minute.”
Well, that I could do. I nodded and winked at him over my shoulder as I sashayed out of the room.
But Jonah took longer than a minute. In fact, Jonah took so long that I ended up falling asleep. If he came to bed, I never knew it because he didn’t wake me and he was gone when I woke the next morning.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Judge
After River went to bed, I started digging through the files on my computer. I had to know when the sensor was removed before I would be able to get any sleep. I fully expected to find out it was tampered with during the inspection earlier that day.
What I did not expect was to have to dig back through days and days of files to find the answer. It took much longer than I thought and, by the time I found it, Officer Dunk had called to let me know the scene had been cleared.
I intended to just go over and lock up the house, but when I noticed my equipment still sitting in the living room, I decided to go ahead and complete the installation I had originally started and replace the missing sensor. I also changed the master code to be on the safe side.
By the time all was said and done, the sun was up and it was well into the next morning. After making sure the house was locked and the alarm was set, I went straight to the clubhouse to update Copper.
“The fuck you mean somebody removed a sensor? How?” he asked.
“My best guess is they did it during the first inspection, which would explain the frayed wires,” I said.
“But Splint’s dad didn’t find anything wrong with the wiring. Are you saying he lied to us?” Copper asked incredulously.
“No way; he’s an honest man, but that doesn’t mean everyone he employs is. The wires were capped, so whoever did it, knew exactly what they were doing.”
Copper picked up his phone and gave me a pointed look. “No sense in beating around the bush; let’s get him in here and ask him.”
Thirty minutes later, Dean Montgomery walked into Copper’s office with a worried look on his face. “What's going on, fellas?”
Copper explained the situation and asked, “Do you think any of your guys would have done something like this?”
