Along Came the Rain by Alison R. Solomon

Author:Alison R. Solomon [Solomon, Alison R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing
Published: 2016-04-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Barker, June 21

The next morning when I enter Gordon’s office, I can tell something good has happened. His desk is clean and Gordon himself looks ten years younger.

“The girls are out,” he tells me getting up from his desk. For the first time in all the years I’ve known him, he gives me a hug. Then he picks up the car keys.

“Are we still going to Mrs. Clark?”

“You betcha. Now more than ever I want to talk to her.”

As Gordon and I drive to Mrs. Clark’s house, I ask him to tell me everything he knows about the girls.

“I don’t know that much yet. I was only allowed to speak with them briefly, after they’d been checked in at the hospital.”

“Are they okay?”

“The hospital was just precautionary. They’ll keep them overnight then probably release them tomorrow morning.”

“How did they escape?”

“Another anonymous note. This time it was put in a janitor’s mailbox. It suggested he look into a weird smell in a condo on the eleventh floor. I still have to interview him, but I don’t expect he’s gonna be able to tell us much. The officers who responded to his call said he didn’t seem to know anything about the owner or the renter. He’s just on-call for problems with plumbing and the like.”

“And the girls, how did they seem?”

“Like you might expect typical fifteen-year-olds to act—as if they’d known all along they’d be okay. But I’m pretty sure it was all bravado. Underneath I could see they were pretty shook up. Especially the one with the long, dark hair.”

“Michaela.”

“Yeah. They both asked if you were responsible for finding them. Guess they’re pretty tight with you.”

“I’m the only person they’ve had consistently in their lives for the past ten years. I can’t wait to see them and talk to them.”

“You’ll have to let me interview them first. And that won’t happen until tomorrow when they’re released from the hospital. As soon as I’m done, I’ll pass them on to you.”

“But you’ve done an initial interview?”

“Yeah. I wanted to get some basic information to see if it would move us forward with our investigation. But tomorrow I’ll be talking to them at length.”

“Could I be there?”

“No. I promise I’ll pass them on as soon as I’m done.”

“Did you find out anything useful today?”

“Yeah. Mrs. Clark told you that the girls were picked up by someone from your office, who you later figured out was your student. The girls corroborated that—Kallie even remembered her name. But here’s the strange thing. She took them to the bus station. It was someone else who drove them to the condo.”

“Do they know who he was?”

“It wasn’t a ‘he,’ it was a female. Drove an older model White KIA Soul. Guess Kallie’s enough of a car expert to know how it differs from the newer models.”

“Oh, even I know that model car. Wynn drives a White KIA Soul, and hers is an older model too.”

“Wynn? Your partner Wynn?” He swivels his head around to look at me and his eyebrows are raised almost to the roof of the car.

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