The Mafia Heiress They Could Never Find novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: The Log

My password still worked, and the screen came up on the files Declan had scrolled through six weeks earlier.

I went to the firmware folder and opened the one called ramp notes, old.

It held a single text file, a long column of dates and times.

"Somebody get me the projector," I said. "Everyone should read this at once."

Nobody moved.

"I'll do it," said Finn.

He was already at the side wall, dragging the cable across the floor.

The big screen over the head table lit up, and my file stood forty feet wide above our father's candles.

I scrolled to the top.

"Every time this laptop wakes up, it writes one line," I said. "The date, the time, and which profile logged in. Dad made me write the program when I was sixteen."

I turned to the crew bosses.

"The logins that your people traced to an outside server happened on Tuesday nights. Look at the third column."

The column said Visitor, Visitor, Visitor, down the whole screen.

Conor stepped closer, and his mouth moved as he read.

"Anyone could use a guest profile," he said.

"Anyone could," I said. "So here is where I was."

I held out my hand without looking, and Eamon put a folded sheet in it.

It had a federal seal at the top and a column of dates in a different font.

"This is the badge record for the test site in the suburbs," I said. "I was in the building from ten to seven until a quarter past ten, every Tuesday since August. My badge, and a guard's signature. Match it against the Visitor lines."

Conor took the sheet from me.

I watched his eyes go from the paper to the screen and back, and he did it six times.

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