The Switch のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 11 - チャプター 20

ARIA'S POV Terror gripped me as I tried hard to believe. "Then we have him....." "No. Because Richard Webb disappeared the night Cameron died with new identity and to a new country. For two years, nobody has known where he is." She looked past me into the darkness. "Until tonight. Because the person who came into this building before Cole......." She stopped. A figure stepped out of a classroom doorway twenty feet behind my mother. He was older than the photograph but unmistakably the same person. 'Richard Webb.' He stood in the corridor of Lincoln High School like he owned it. "Hello, Margaret," he said pleasantly. "It's been a long time." My mother turned slowly. Her spine straightened and her fear disappeared. "Richard." She gasped. "I heard your little confession just now. Very touching." He walked toward us unhurriedly. "Your daughter seems shocked. Did you really never tell her any of this?" He smiled. "Don't come any closer," my mother said raising her hand

SAGE'S POV The emergency lights had stopped strobing. Somewhere outside, journalists were shouting questions at officers who aren't answering and somewhere in the building, our father was in a locker room with officers, waiting. Aria wiped her face with the back of her hand, took a deep breath and straightened. "We need to find Dad," she said. "Aria......" Cole started. "I know how bad what she did is." Aria's voice was controlled. "But right now we need everything on that drive before Richard Webb's lawyers start making it disappear." She looked at Cole. "For Cameron. Before anything else.." Cole looked at her for a long moment. "Yeah," he said quietly. "For Cameron." We found the locker room at the end of the east corridor. An officer was standing outside and he stepped aside when he saw us. Inside, our father sat on a bench between two officers. The fake bomb device has been removed, sitting harmlessly on the floor nearby. He looks smaller and older without it. He looke

JULIAN'S POV "Arthur has known the partners Webb had worked with for years but he was afraid because one of them......" The voice dropped. "One of them is in law enforcement and he has been managing the investigation and he made sure Cameron's death was ruled suicide before anyone could look too closely." I felt a cold shiver run down my spine"Who?" "Someone who was at Lincoln High tonight with a badge" A breath. "Someone who just walked into Arthur Grayson's interview room alone with him five minutes ago." I was standing already moving toward the door. "What's Arthur's room number?" I asked even though I was already in the corridor. "I don't know. But Julian....." The voice sounded with urgency. "The people protecting Webb's network aren't all arrested. Some of them have been in the room with you all night and you didn't know it." Detective Reyes was thirty feet away talking to a nurse at the station. She looked up when she saw me coming. "What's wrong?" "Arthur Gra

ARIA'S POV Richard Webb was free for forty minutes and he already had a hostage. I stared at the photo of Arthur Grayson and the written note on my phone screen. The real game had just begun. "He planned the arrest and everything that happened last night," Cole said angrily. His voice was controlled though. "Huh?? you can't plan getting arrested," Julian replied. "You can if you can control what will happen after." Cole took my phone and studied the photo "Think about it. Webb got arrested last night and we all celebrated and all of a sudden his lawyer got him out by 5am through a compromised judge before everything was formally filed. Meanwhile he had already positioned himself as emergency board chair at Ashford through the contacts on the board who weren't arrested." Cole handed the phone back. "He allowed us to think we had won while everything he actually needed was already in place." He added. "But why?" Aria asked, in a puzzled face. "Why go through all of th

SAGE'S POV The service door was locked like Victoria had said so we slipped inside First Connecticut Bank through the back entrance at 7:00 in the morning. "This is insane," Julian whispered. "Likeee", I frowned. We were already inside and far away from Reyes backup or safety. "Safety deposit boxes are in the basement," Cole said. He had gone to the building before to monitor, when he was investigating Cameron. "Let's go to the Vault room by the stairs at the end of this corridor." He gestured. My heart hammered as we moved quietly and quickly. Victoria's text said Webb was already inside which meant he was somewhere in the building, waiting. The stairs got darker as we went down and Cole used his phone flashlight so we could see. We saw a door that was closed but not locked and we exchanged glances. "Let's go together to see what's behind there."Aria said quietly. We all held hands and Cole pushed the door with his feet. The vault room was enormous with hundre