36 - The Perfect Crime: Jessie Hunt by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jessie Hunt#36
Published: 2024-12-01T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Hannah tried not being a back seat—or in this case, a side seat—driver.

It was hard because she thought that Kat was much too close as she trailed Rex Stiller.

“I can feel your anxiety,” Kat told her, “but you can relax. This guy isn’t going to notice that we’re behind him. Hell, he couldn’t even keep his wife from suspecting that he’s having an affair. Do you really think that a manager for a trucking company suspects he has a tail?”

Hannah had to acknowledge that it was a fair point. So far, in the day and a half that they’d been following him, Stiller hadn’t given any indication that he thought anyone was aware of his existence, much less following and recording his movements.

He’d picked his nose in public, repeatedly scratched both his backside and his crotch while waiting in line for coffee and ate one meal as if he were feeding at a trough. He didn’t strike Hannah as the kind of guy concerned with who saw him or when.

“I hear you,” she said, “but I always like to err on the side of caution. It’s not like he’s going to peel out in his Kia Sorrento and leave us in the dust. I just don’t want him to notice that the same car with two chicks in it has been behind him as he’s driven all around downtown running errands.”

“Okay,” Kat relented, “If it will make you feel better, I’ll pull back a car length.”

“Thank you,” Hannah said as they pulled onto 6th Street. “Hey, we’re getting into a kind of sketchy area here. The worst part of Skid Row is just another block south of here, right?”

‘Yes, but I seriously doubt that’s where he’s headed,” Kat said. “He’d get eaten alive over there.”

But only seconds later, Stiller turned right onto San Pedro Street and slowed to a crawl.

“I stand corrected,” Kat said. “We may have a problem here. While he might not notice someone trailing him on a crowded street, having just one other car behind him around here will stick out.”

The problem was exacerbated when someone pushing a shopping cart stopped right in front of Kat’s car as she tried to turn right. The man had a long straggly beard and hair that covered most of his face, but Hannah was able to see him smile mischievously, as if they were involved in a game that only he understood.

Up ahead, Stiller’s car was still moving, weaving carefully in and out of the crowds of people who milled about the street. So far, no one was playing the shopping cart traffic game with him.

“This is the first unconventional thing that he’s done in two days, and it looks like he’s going to get away,” Hannah said. “I’m just going to get out and follow him. He’s moving so slow that I should be able to catch up to him.”

She opened the door and jumped out.

“Hannah, no!” Kat called out. “You can’t go walking around here on your own.

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