All He Saw Was The Girl by Leonard Peter

Author:Leonard, Peter [Leonard, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Story Plant, The
Published: 2012-05-15T05:00:00+00:00

Sharon’s boss called his cell phone. He didn’t recognize the number and answered it. Her name was DeAnn Forbes. They’d met a couple times, but he didn’t know her very well.

DeAnn said, “I’m worried about Sharon, we all are. Is she all right?”

“Stressed out. Just needs some time off.” He had to be careful what he said.

“Imagine my surprise,” DeAnn said, “when I got an email saying she was taking a leave of absence. I couldn’t believe it. Sharon’s our top rep and I had to try to explain to our clients what was going on and didn’t have a clue. Ray, can you help me out, can you tell me what the hell’s going on?”

What was he going to say? He’d been kicked out of the Secret Service, went home and Sharon wasn’t there, and based on the mail and phone messages, she hadn’t been around for days. He was thinking about the article in the Free Press about the guy who reported his wife missing. She worked in Puerto Rico during the week and came home on weekends to see her husband and two kids. The husband said they’d had an argument and his wife decided to go back to Puerto Rico a day early. The husband said she was picked up in a dark sedan. He didn’t know anything more.

Two weeks later the Macomb County Sheriff’s Department went to his house with a search warrant and found the wife’s torso in a garbage can in the garage. The husband confessed he’d cut up her body in his dad’s machine shop and strewn her body parts in a wooded area behind their house. A detective working the case said, when the wife’s missing the husband is always the main suspect.

Ray said, “Sharon will call you, explain everything when she’s ready.”

DeAnn said, “Does she have cancer, can you tell me that?”

Ray said, “She’s not dying.” He hoped she wasn’t.

DeAnn said, “Tell her we love her and she’s welcome back whenever she wants.”

Ray was suspicious, didn’t believe it. Sharon would’ve called, not sent an email. That wasn’t like her. She was conscientious and responsible, loved her job, and made a lot of money, more than he did and he was well paid for a federal agent. It didn’t seem plausible that she’d just up and leave with someone like Joey Palermo, either. But she had to be lonely, starved for attention and affection. He certainly hadn’t helped the situation. She was alone most of the time and when he came home he made her miserable. He couldn’t see it before or maybe he didn’t want to stop and consider her point of view. It was as if his life had been out of focus and now everything was in perfect register. He wanted her back and wondered if what he was feeling was possessiveness or love. Did he still love her? Did he ever?

But if she planned to go away with Joey she would’ve told someone, wouldn’t she? Her sister? Her friends? The way she did it didn’t make sense.

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