by Keya Jay
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Ethan went back to his office and was again surprised to see that yet another person had entered without him noticing.
“Ava how the hell did you get in here?”
“Not important,” she said as she closed his office door and strode back toward him with her arms crossed against her chest.
“What’s going on?” he asked confused.
“The girl…Brooke?” she questioned as if she didn’t quiet remember her name.
“Yea, what about her?”
“She’s lying to you and she lied to Skylar and quite frankly her mother’s reaction to Aaron’s supposed death was more real than her’s ever were.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I knew the moment Skylar had come to me with the evidence of the emails on Aaron’s email account where exactly this case was going so I called in the mother, she had no clue about Aarons death and she hadn’t seen Erin Brooks in years I could tell as much by her reaction to him the moment I stuck her in the same room as him. ‘Hank Henderson’ the Brooke had said was her mother’s boss?” she questioned.
“Yea about him?” Ethan asked.
“Ethan meet Hank Henderson,” she said with a gesture to her hand. Ethan turned slightly to see a man standing in the corner of his office a man he hadn’t even noticed was there.
“Who the hell is that?”
“That is Brooke’s mother’s boss his name really is Hank Henderson,” she explained.
“She lied to us,” Ethan said as realization sank in. “Shit,” he said as he threw his office door open and walked down toward the conference room where Brooke had been held. Ethan was not at all surprised to see that it was empty. “Shit,” he cursed again. “She must have known that we would get Aaron’s emails, she set this all up from the start knowing that Skylar would be more willing to believe that her mother had put her up to it rather than believe that she had done it all herself,” Ethan said now understanding what exactly had gone down.
“Nine times out of ten she won’t be home she’ll be where ever Aaron is. I think it’ll be in our best interest to find out where exactly that is if we have any hope of finding her in time,” Ava said.
“But we can’t do that without Skylar’s help,” Ethan said out of frustration.
“Why her’s?” Ava asked confused.
“Brooke is Skylar’s friend she could no doubt try and think like Brooke.”
“But she might not be willing to do that once she finds out that her best friend is indeed guilty,” Ava said.
“Exactly now you know where exactly our problems lie,” Ethan said as he headed toward the other conference room with Hank. “I do believe Brooke was telling the truth about one thing, Hank does want to replace Aaron he’s trying to take over his life but as long as that Book of secrets is around and as long as “Richard” stays in hiding he won’t be able to do that. He probably lied and said that he was going to Arizona in hopes of no longer be suspected and free to enter houses without taking any kind of blame,” Ethan said to the fast pacing Ava beside him.
“But if Hank is not involved with Brooke but is believed to be then why didn’t Brooke play along so that he could take all of the blame?” Ava asked confused.
“Because Brooke doesn’t want anyone else to take the credit for this, she wants to be known for what she’s doing and what she’s about to do. The only reason she used her mother in her statements is so that it would give her a little more time to finish up whatever it is she’s about to do,” Ethan said knowing that what he said was the truth.
“Ok so what do we do in order to stop her?”
“We can’t do anything only Skylar can.”
“But you know she won’t, that’s her best friend.”
“Trust me when I say that this job is important to her and so is this case, she’s not doing this case for her she’s doing it for her father so if she wants to please him like I know she does then she will do it,” he assured her though he wasn’t as confident as he was trying to get Ava to be.
“Fine,” she said giving in. “I’ll drive. I haven’t been to her house in years,” she mumbled to herself as she passed Ethan up and headed toward the parking lot.
