Cold Case True Crime by Denise N. Wheatley

Author:Denise N. Wheatley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-04-07T21:11:06+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Samantha was so irritated that she could literally feel her skin crawling.

She had called Kenzie several times, leaving voice mails then following up with text messages, making it clear that she really needed to talk to her. But Kenzie still hadn’t responded.

Whether Kenzie was avoiding her or not, Samantha was determined to share with her the new developments in the investigation of Jacob’s death and see if it would help shake loose any other information. So much so that she’d driven down to Westman’s Automotive Factory and was sitting inside her car, waiting for Kenzie to come outside for lunch so that she could make one last-ditch effort to speak with her.

Samantha craned her neck and stared out the window from her discreetly parked car, which sat half a block away from the factory. Her eyes were glued to the back door that led out into the parking lot.

Kenzie usually left the factory sometime between eleven and noon to head over to Victor’s Café for the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. Samantha’s plan was to follow Kenzie to the restaurant, delicately approach her before she went inside and ask if they could sit down and talk.

Samantha’s stomach turned as she anticipated Kenzie walking out the door at any given moment. She knew she was probably doing too much by showing up at her job unannounced. But Samantha wasn’t too proud to admit that she was getting desperate. She and Gregory were getting too close to cracking Jacob’s murder case and busting Collin and Chief Westworth to turn back now. Samantha just hoped she could convince Kenzie to spill whatever information she may have been holding, which could ultimately help solve the entire investigation.

She peered in her side-view mirror and noticed a white van coming toward her. Flashbacks of the incident at Hannah’s flooded her mind. Samantha’s heart began to beat so furiously that she could feel it in her pulsating temples. She quickly slumped down in her seat and turned away from the window, hoping that whoever was driving the vehicle wouldn’t notice her.

When the van sped past her, Samantha emitted a deep sigh of relief, not realizing that she’d been holding her breath the whole time. She slowly sat back up and noticed the back door to the factory open. Her cell phone buzzed, but she ignored the call and kept her eyes glued to the exit.

Several men walked out into the parking lot. Samantha peered through the windshield, looking to see if Kenzie would follow them. But the door slammed with no sign of her.

“Ugh,” she moaned. “Will you come out already?”

Samantha glanced down at her watch. It was after twelve o’clock. She’d been sitting in that spot for over an hour, and her body was tweaking with impatience.

She jumped at the sound of her cell phone buzzing again. Samantha pulled it from her handbag and saw a text message notification from Ava displayed on the screen.

They hadn’t spoken since running into one another at Hannah’s. Samantha wasn’t planning on telling her or Kenzie that she’d gone into Collin’s house and found the drug ledger.

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