Jordan angrily tried to stop the woman, but Leland restrained her.
"You won't be much help if you're behind bars" he reminded her.
For the next several hours, they studied the three cases.
"Does anyone have scissors?" Adrian asked at one point.
"Why?" Jordan asked.
"Some of these papers are longer than the folder"
"Oh for the love of God…" Max rolled his eyes.
"Why don't we order room service?" Jordan suggested.
Before anyone could answer, there was an earthquake.
"Jordan!" Max worriedly called his daughter out of parental instinct.
"Get under something!" Jordan yelled.
"Oh my God!" the sleuth panicked; fear paralyzed him.
Sharona pulled him under a work desk, as things started to fall, and the roar of the moving earth continued for another minute. Soon, it stopped, and Sharona ran to the phone to call Benji, who was staying with her sister. Max, quickly went to check on Jordan.
"Are you all right?". He had never experienced an earthquake and felt a bit unnerved.
"I'm fine dad." Jordan answered. "You?"
"I've felt better"
"Benji's fine. He didn't feel anything."
"I doubt that he would have" the captain commented, though he understood Sharona's need to check.
"You can come out now, Adrian" Sharona told the sleuth, who was still under the working desk. He held onto its legs for dear life. Fear of earthquakes trumped his germ phobia.
"There could be an aftershock"
As if on cue, a very small twenty second aftershock occurred.
Meanwhile, Max and Jordan picked up the various case file materials that had fallen.
TBC