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for us.”
    She disappeared into her bedroom, and because that didn’t seem an appropriate place for him to be, Luke stayed put and looked down at his now sleeping son. It was hard to imagine that the little boy who’d been a ball of energy just minutes earlier was now sleeping so peacefully. Luke wanted to make sure things stayed peaceful.
    Elaina returned to the nursery and deposited an armful of bedding on the carpeted floor. With her arms free, Luke could see that she’d changed her clothes. Nothing provocative. She wore cream-colored flannel pajamas. But it was still somehow intimate to be in the same room with her while she was preparing for bed.
    With the uncomfortable silence, Luke had time to go over everything they’d discussed, and the one thing he kept returning to was Kevin. Was Elaina’s ex the reason those men had come to Crystal Creek? If so, what was the way to make the connection, especially if the two men weren’t in a talkative mood during the interviews?
    “You said that Kevin was doing some kind of software modification,” Luke whispered. “Was it legal?”
    “Probably not.” She spread out the covers and tossed him a pillow. “In fact, I’d be shocked if it was.”
    Luke placed the pillow on the floor, but since the room was indeed small, his pillow was less than two feet from where Elaina’s was. “If Kevin was that bad, then why’d you get involved with him in the first place?”
    “We were college sweethearts. I didn’t learn about his criminal activities until he was dead and I started going through his things.” She settled into her makeshift bed. “It was like he was two different people. Despite bouts of manic depression, he was usually kind and generous with me. But to the rest of the world, well, he was a scumbag.”
    Luke made a mental note to learn just how much of a scumbag Kevin was.
    “Who hired Kevin to do these software modifications?” Luke asked.
    “I don’t know. He only referred to his boss as T. I don’t know if T was a man or a woman, and I certainly have no idea what the person’s real name is. But I do know that the modifications were important. Kevin spent a lot of time doing them, and he said it was a project that would make us millionaires several times over.”
    Interesting. A big project worth a lot of money. “You believed him?”
    “Yes. He’d never said anything like that before. And before he was killed, he made some rather large deposits into our investment accounts.”
    Well, that added some credence to Kevin’s claims. “How was he doing these modifications?”
    “He put everything on a miniature memory card.”
    That wasn’t something Luke wanted to hear. There were memory cards half the size of a dime and just as thin. “Did you bring anything with you when you left San Antonio?”
    She turned slightly to make eye contact. “Just some files, investment account statements and the adoption papers. I brought some of Christopher’s toys, of course. And his car seat. Oh, and I also brought the clothes and blanket he was wrapped in the day I first saw him.”
    “That was the day Kevin brought Christopher home to you?” Luke asked.
    She nodded.
    And here he had been on a case while another man was essentially stealing his child. Luke knew he’d never forgive himself for that. All he could do was make the world a little safer for Christopher.
    “Kevin was killed only hours after he handed me the baby,” Elaina added.
    Yeah. Luke knew that, and he’d come to the conclusion that Kevin hadn’t had the miniature disk with him. If he had, those men likely wouldn’t have come after Elaina.
    “How about a computer?” Luke pressed. “Did you bring one to Crystal Creek with you?”
    “My laptop, but Kevin never used it.”
    Perhaps not when she was around, but Luke knew Kevin still could have used it. “I’d like to see the files, the clothing and the laptop.”
    She stared at him, and for a moment he thought she might refuse. But