20 EBONY Brad called Ebony to let her know he was on the way back and asked if she wanted him to pick up something for her dinner. She didn’t. He knocked on the door between the garage and the house and waited for her to acknowledge him. She called out for him to come in. ‘I appreciate you knocking. Thank you,’ she said as he made his way to the living room. She was curled up in an armchair watching something on the television that he didn’t recognise. ‘What did he have to say?’ she asked. ‘He overreacted to a phone call. My father called him and asked how the investigation was going. Said he wondered if Sandy had found your laptop and notebooks. Of course, Sandy told him nothing. It was a fishing expedition. He wants your notebooks, and we need to find out why. I told Sandy he would

