Buried Alive: An Agent 917 Novella Book One (Agent 917 Novellas) by Andy Holmes

Author:Andy Holmes [Holmes, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-07-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter eight

Thomas sat in the idling Lexus and watched the defrosters battle against the incessant build of frost on the glass.

Fifteen years and not a whisper that anyone knew about the murders. There was no evidence, no detectable trail he’d left behind. He always took pride in being an intellectual, smarter than all the minnows of society. A Ph.D. and prestigious medical career will do that to you. It was an affront to his intellect that he’d been discovered.

He deliberated on the meaning behind the desecrated grave and took comfort in the thought that the discovered grave didn’t mean whoever found it could prove he was responsible. Even if they knew he did it, there was no concrete proof that he was guilty. He’d taken great care to erase any physical traces and he’d bleached Tracy’s body head to toe with surgical precision before putting her in the ground.

The Jeep registered to Tracy Boyer flashed in his mind. Someone knew. And whoever they were, they wanted him to see the grave. He was being taunted.

More questions swirled in his mind. Tracy Boyer was his first. Did they know about the others? Why hadn’t they gone to the police?

This wasn’t standard police work. They would have gotten a warrant and made a show of it by arresting him at work or raiding his home.

He called officer Simpson.

“I need another favor.”

Ten years ago, Simpson had been injured in the line of duty. He fell off a fence chasing down a group of high school kids doing drugs in a Target parking lot. His fibula fractured on impact. It was a pathetic injury and whenever it came up, Simpson kept the details vague. It wasn’t exactly good public relations to broadcast to his friends and family that all it took to best a trained police officer was an eight-foot fence. Thomas overprescribed him 50 milligrams of oxycontin for the pain. Within a month the officer was hooked. They had a special arrangement. As long as the prescriptions kept coming, Thomas could access police databases. He rarely leveraged Simpson, but knowing he had an inside line to the police helped him rest better at night.

“What is it now, Doc?”

“Can you look up my name in your database?”

“Sure, but why?”

“Don’t ask questions. What will my profile show you?”

“Current address, driving record, if there is a warrant for your arrest. I’ll need your Driver’s License Number.”

Thomas gave it to him and waited.

“Looks like you had a speeding ticket a few years back. Other than that it's clean.”

“No warrants?”

“No, nothing like that. If I pulled you over for speeding I’d probably let you go with a warning. Everything all right, Doc? You think someone knows what you are doing for me?” Simpson sounded worried.

“Everything is fine Simpson.” Thomas hung up.

He opened up the app on his phone that linked to the security camera outside his home. He spotted Jasmine trotting out of the house and driving away.

I pay that stupid bitch 200 dollars a week to clean my immaculate house and she is skimping out early.

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