Not A Small-Town Girl

Chapter 71

"Any updates on the hotel footage from four years ago?" Danielle asked.

Emery sighed. "I was just about to tell you. The footage is pretty old, and the cameras were messed up. I managed to pull it up, but the restoration didn’t work."

He sounded almost defeated. Despite his top-notch skills on the Black Web, even Emery couldn’t fix a piece of footage as damaged as this.

Danielle tapped her fingers lightly against the desk, her gaze never leaving him. "Send me what you’ve got. And take Benjamin to the police."

"Got it," Emery replied, turning to go.

of the country tomorrow. I’ll be gone for a week.

curled into a mischievous grin. "I saw you with a guy earlier... in the

in the

understand. Don’t

"Then go do

going," he said

to her computer, her focus immediately snapping into place. Her fingers flew over the keyboard with practiced precision, each tap syncing with the rhythm of her thoughts. The movements were quick, and

flashing by like fleeting stars in the night sky. For anyone else, it would be dizzying to follow. But for Danielle, it was second nature. Her mind raced, working through the restoration of the damaged video as she extracted the details she needed. She was entirely absorbed in the task, the lines of code speeding across the screen

one final press of the "Enter" key, the

showed a young woman, dressed in the hotel’s staff uniform, sweeping the

flushed from alcohol, his