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.

gone for a week. If anything comes up, call me," Danielle

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

narrowed. She’d known Emery was the biggest gossip in the office. With a

grin only widened. "Oh, I understand. Don’t worry, I won’t

look. "Then go do what you’re supposed

yeah. I’m going," he said with a

keyboard with practiced precision, each tap syncing with

Her mind raced, working through the restoration of the damaged video as she extracted

final press of the "Enter" key, the video clicked

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

appeared, his face flushed from alcohol, his movements slow and