Chapter 260

Inspector Silva walked up to me and reached for the front of my blouse. I snatched the button out of his hand. ‘I can do it myself.’ ‘The gadget’s sensitive,’ he said. ‘Needs careful handling.’ ‘I can manage pinning a button to a blouse, thanks.’ If not for the strictly professional look on his face, and the fact I’d spent the last three days getting a sense of him, I might’ve thought he was trying to grope me. But the man had one setting: work. ‘The mini camcorder captures everything within twenty metres of your field of vision,’ he said, stepping back. ‘Make sure the lens is facing outwards and at the right angle.’ I looked down and adjusted the tiny white device. It blended in perfectly with the rest of the buttons on my blouse. Silva checked something on his laptop, then put on a pair of earphones. ‘The view’s good. Say something.’ ‘Something.’ ‘Loud and clear.’ He pulled the earphones off. I resisted the urge to keep looking down at the button. ‘What if he doesn’t say anything use