04.Die.My.Love.2007 by Casey Kathryn

Author:Casey, Kathryn [Casey, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

DIE, MY LOVE / 179

“They need to work out getting your kids to you,” Ferguson said, dangling the bait. “Can we go back and talk at your house?”

Given the option, Ferguson wanted Piper in her house, so he and the other officers had the opportunity to convince her to sign a consent-to- search form. That would make things easier, since they’d no longer need to ask a judge to sign a search warrant.

Yet, it appeared Piper had other things on her mind.

“No, if you want to talk, we can talk here. But first I need to run an errand,” she said. “I have to get crickets to feed my frogs.”

Amazed that she didn’t seem the least bit worried about her children or concerned about what he had to tell her, just a day after her ex-husband’s murder, Ferguson pressed, “So, after you buy the crickets, you’ll have time to talk to us?

Maybe we can head back to your house there, talk where we can have a little privacy?”

“I’ll be right back,” Piper said, leaving him standing in the parking lot as she walked into the pet store.

After Piper disappeared inside, Ferguson called McDaniel to fill him in. The elation of finally cornering her, however, evaporated just minutes later when she emerged from the store and hurried past him, back toward her SUV, not even looking at him.

“The Virginia officers are on their way, and I can have them meet us at your house to talk,” Ferguson said again, smiling.

“No,” Piper said. “The Virginia police haven’t even contacted me. If they want to talk, tell them to call me.”

Ferguson knew that wasn’t true but didn’t argue the point. “Ms. Rountree, let’s talk about this,” he said, but Piper swung open the door to her Jeep. She slammed the door, quickly turned on the engine, threw it into reverse and backed up, then revved forward out of the parking lot. By 180 / Kathryn Casey

then Ferguson had jumped in his own car, and he followed her into traffi c.

“She’s on the move,” he told the others via phone. “Looks like she’s headed into Houston.”

McDaniel, who’d driven halfway back to Kingwood, pulled off of Interstate 59 again and made another U-turn.

This time he sat and waited. When Ferguson called in a position two exits north of where he’d parked, McDaniel, with Kelley and Dorton in the car, pulled back onto the interstate and headed slowly south, toward downtown. When McDaniel saw Piper’s Jeep followed by his partner’s unmarked car, he pulled alongside them. Ferguson opened up enough room to allow McDaniel to cut in front of him, and they formed a three-car caravan, with Ferguson’s as the third car. McDaniel knew that with all the jockeying for position they’d been too obvious for her to ignore, that Piper must have known she was being followed by two police cars. But she didn’t pull over. Instead, she drove through Houston, past the city’s forest of mirrored skyscrapers, their top floors obscured by low clouds, and kept going.

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