Author's Note: Sorry about the delay in getting this chapter up. My life got hectic over the May-June period so, let me get on with this story. I promise I will be more faithful updating.

Chapter 16

"I'm here," Tom said as he moved into NTAC command where he saw Ryland and Marco gawking at the computer screen. "Are you guys alive?"

"Oh right," Ryland said. "I'm sorry, but I thought that you would want to see this."

"I ran a friend of mine run the forensics on Lindell's hard drive, and we came up with these," Marco said handing Tom a stack of papers. "They're e-mails sent to Diana from Lindell's computer. We also checked his inbox, and it doesn't appear that Diana responded to him."

"The e-mails are in chronological order," Ryland said. "You'll notice that he grows angry and violent as the e-mails continue."

Tom looked at the e-mails and scanned each one. Among the words were phrases like, I love you Diana, I just want to see you, You're beautiful, and I want to take you out to dinner. And then in the later e-mails he got violent, where are you Diana, I would watch that little girl if I were you, and I would sleep with one eye open tonight.

"Bastard," Tom said. "What else did you find on the hard drive?"

"I couple of registries, one to a lodge, one to a gym, and one to a marina, I pulled the records," Marco said. "He has a boat."

"Did you get a name," Tom asked.

"All we know is that the uses the boat to fish," Ryland said.

"I say we hit his address again, see if we can find any pictures of his boat, maybe that will narrow it down a little," Tom said.

"I'll go," Ryland said. "Go back to Diana."

"Are you sure?" Tom asked.

"Positive," Ryland said.

"I'm coming! I'm coming!" Diana said as she rose from her sleep to answer the knock at the door. "Hold on!"

The medication was making her sleep. It was a great labor for her just to keep her eyes open at this point. She doubted that she should have gone out with Tom earlier, but she couldn't resist the fresh air. Her apartment wasn't exactly the Flordia Everglades, but she knew that if she mentioned it to her siblings they would reprimand her.

She walked over to the door and answered it. "Hey Tom! I didn't expect you back today."

"Ryland let me go after her briefed me on what they found on Lindell's hard drive," Tom said. "Why don't you get dressed and we'll go out to dinner."

"Now?" Diana asked. "I though we planned on going tomorrow night?"

"We did," Tom said. "But I think that both of us could use a night out. So, what do you say?"

"I look like a beach bum in these pants," Diana said. "Just let me change and then we can go out."

"Alright," Tom said. "Take your time."

Diana went back into her bedroom where she quickly changed into a pair of jeans, a nice top, and a pair of heels, before going to her bathroom and quickly applying make-up to her face.

She hated surprises. Why couldn't people give her an advance of a couple of hours? She continues to apply her makeup before she exited her bathroom, gathered her purse and met Tom in the living room.

"You ready to go?" he asked.

"Yes," Diana said. "Let's go."

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Author's Note: I know this is short. , but I promise, I have a plan for the next couple of chapters. So I should probably get them up by this weekend perspectively.