Chapter 21
Krystal stepped into the conference room to find Special Agent Lee and Sinead Goode already inside. She’d been summoned minutes ago by Miln and schooled her expression to casually neutral.
Something she’d mastered as the mother of three teenage boys. They were sneaky. She had to be sneakier.
“You wanted to see me?” She looked between the two women but focused on Lee, because she was the one who’d called for her.
She was curious why Sinead was still here, but the lawyer was doing something on her phone, completely disinterested in the conversation. Or she was doing a damn good impression of someone uninterested.
“Did you see Clover Storm leave earlier?” Lee asked.
Welp, she couldn’t lie. Not directly. She believed in her job, in helping her community. And more than that, she’d do almost anything to keep her family safe. But she wasn’t lying to a federal agent unless absolutely necessary. “Yeah.”
Surprise flickered in Lee’s eyes for a fraction of a moment, maybe because she’d been honest, but then it was gone. “When?”
She blinked. “Fifteen minutes ago, I guess. I don’t know the exact time. What’s going on?”
Lee ignored her question.
Sinead muttered, “Told you.”
Krystal had already gone over this with Micah, but she still hated that she was in this situation at all, walking this tightrope.
Lee’s jaw tensed. “What kind of relationship do you have with Clover Storm?”
Krystal frowned at the other woman. “Relationship? I mean…she’s my younger sister’s soon to be sister-in-law, but beyond that, I don’t know her well.
I’ve had her over—with her brother and my sister—for some family dinners, but we don’t run in the same circles.
She’s sweet, I will say that. Why? And why did you guys even bring her in?
” She knew, but not through them. They hadn’t read in any of the sheriff’s department about why they were bringing in Clover.
And no wonder, considering she was a local and well-liked. So Krystal had to act as if she had no idea.
“Did you see who she left with?” Lee continued.
This was trickier, but she could actually be truthful because she hadn’t seen Micah driving.
Sure, she’d known he was driving that SUV, but she hadn’t seen him with her eyes.
“No. I don’t understand why you’re even asking me this.
If you want to see who she left with, just check the cameras.
” She said it like that should have been the first thing the Feds should have done.
Lee didn’t respond, simply stood and straightened her jacket before striding from the room with purpose.
Sinead, who didn’t seem to trust anyone, just shook her head when Krystal opened her mouth to say something else. She pointed to her ears, then the room at large, as if she thought they’d planted listening devices.
This wasn’t an interrogation room, so there was no way the FBI had planted listening devices…right?
Better safe than sorry.
She simply nodded at Sinead then ducked back out, wondering how long the attorney would be hanging out. It wasn’t like she could stay and ask her questions, so Krystal headed back to her desk and started working on the newest case that she’d been assigned.
All while trying not to worry what Clover and her brother had gotten themselves into.
It was clear that Micah was into Clover, and Krystal worried that because of that he wouldn’t make the best decisions.