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“I’ whether PC or Mac based, but…” I investigated the restoration date, e to reset to the last period the hard drive had been backed up

I stared at the date and my frown deepened

“Ari? What is it?”

“It’s—I don’t know Weird” I shook my head “Two days after Amsel was born”

Dane’s brow dipped

I said, “You stayed at the retreat with me Kyle was there, too Amano and Rosa came back here That’s when Ethan dropped off the hard drive”

So flashed in Dane’s eyes and, before he even asked me to see if I could discern who’d last accessed the databaseacross the keyboard and alternately clicking the mouse

But there was nothing to share with hied on

And for that matter …

“Dane Ethan is your closest friend Your mentor Not a suspect”

“No” He shoved away fro with me?” he mumbled, and walked the office in frustration

I kept up h we both knew Ethan was not a rabbit to chase Someone else was We just didn’t knoho

As I scanned the hard drive and then pulled up the Coht for a viable option to offer Dane The best I could say was, “This is a dead stick There’s absolutely nothing here No leads, no nothing I can’t even—” I stalled out mid-sentence

“What, Ari?” Dane demanded “What is it?”

“I don’t know,” I repeated “Hold on a sec” I stared at the screen as he caain