The shop owner looked troubled when he heard Jasper also wanted the memory card preserved. "That's going to cost extra."
Jasper Sherwood gave the owner his phone number. "Money isn't an issue. What's inside is the important part—it's very important to me. Send me a backup."
The owner nodded. "All right. Come pick it up in about two weeks. I can extract the data for you ahead of time."
Jasper Sherwood thanked him and left.
It wasn't that he was paranoid, but why did Vivian Sterling have to show up at the artificial lake of all places?
'He even suspected she'd eavesdropped on their conversation.'
'To put his own mind at ease, he had to find out if Vivian Sterling had anything on him.'
Jasper Sherwood hated being on the defensive.
But with Nina Donovan, he was always on the back foot, stuck, unable to advance or retreat.
'He didn't even know what she was so hesitant about.'
'She was like a shroud of mist, impossible to see through.'
Jasper Sherwood headed back to school.
