Beasts by Celia Crown

Author:Celia Crown [Crown, Celia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Holly

“I just want to let you know that you are not under arrest, Ms. Price. We just want to ask you some questions,” Detective Hans says as he puts down a folder with paperclips in it.

Isaac had instructed me to not say anything because apparently even though they said that it’s not going to be held against me, it’s still going to be held against me when and if I’m put under arrest.

“I’m sure you have heard by now that The Butcher has been going after younger girls, mainly those who are brunettes in the same twenty-five-mile radius.” Hans folds his hands over the folder, tweaking the clean edges before he opens the files.

“You might be thinking why you and not many other brunettes,” he says without looking at me.

I glance at Isaac; his poker face renders the words in my mouth into a jumbled mess, and my fingers twitch in his hand when I can’t tell what he’s thinking about.

“We couldn’t find a pattern when The Butcher began; all we knew was that he took legs off of young girls. He didn’t find his preference yet, but as time went by, he became bolder and more confident.” Hans scans the piece of documents in his folder, but the words are too small for me to see.

“Once the pattern of young college girls with brown hair and brown eyes starts to become clear, we knew that he had been working up and refining his skills to go after what we think is his source of rage against a specific woman.”

My hand shakes between Isaac’s bigger ones; he caresses my knuckles to calm me down, but it’s hard when I’m in an interrogation room rather than a conference room where I’m feeling like a criminal being questioned.

“Based on that and the profilers at the FBI, we narrowed our searches down to women who have had reports of stalking. We know that The Butcher stalks his victims to find their most vulnerable time, and we have already checked out the potential victims that fit the profile.” Hans takes out a piece of paper from underneath the first page.

He looks at it, turns it towards me, and slides it over on the table. I glance down, reading the report on a break-in with my apartment address on it. I didn’t file any police report, and I didn’t even know my home was broken into. Nothing was taken, and the door was not damaged.

Isaac takes the paper, reads it, and his hand tightens around mine under the table. He sets the paper back down on the table, and the detective has this smug look on his face for some odd reason.

“Your neighbor had called in; she saw someone suspicious going into your apartment, and she couldn’t see who it was,” the other detective points out.

“Detectives, get to the point. I’m sure you did not pull us in here for a simple break-in that could lead to The Butcher,” Isaac says as his imposing body straightens.

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