Cold Read by Renee Joiner

Author:Renee Joiner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oshun Publications, LLC

Nine

Things We Lost In The Fire

“I just spoke to Marshall again,” Daniel reported, after returning from his conversation with the ranch owner. “Allegedly, he’s seen this truck more times than he’d like to admit. In fact, he used to see it when it was parked down in his unoccupied field just before you reach the intersection to his main property.”

“Does he know that a couple has been plowing on his fields?” she asked.

“I—I didn’t ask. Did you seriously just make a sex joke?” he asked while blushing ever so slightly.

“Maybe,” she answered coyly.

“Hey, so... why didn’t you go in with me? I’m sure you had some questions of your own.”

“His wife.”

“His... wife? You have some issues with her?”

“Yes. She’s a rusalka as well”

“She is?” he said, feeling on edge. “What—what does that mean?”

“Right now, for our purposes, nothing. It’s not important right now. Let’s just say I know why this place has become so popular of late. If I go in there now, I expose myself. If she has knowledge of me and what I am, she may try to compromise what we’re doing. Our kind has a bad reputation for a reason. There are those who are responsible for it. I don’t know much about her, but something about her doesn’t yet sit well with me. Although, whether deliberately or not, she helped us when she gave us the tip-off on Robin and her possible captor coming through—posing as a couple.”

“Are you telling me your ‘kind’ gets territorial?”

“We’re as beastly as people are for the most part. So yes. We can be. But right now, that is not the issue. We need to focus on this new information we have.”

Daniel leaned against the bonnet of his car, crossing his arms as he thought. “Your powers. Does it allow you to...I don’t know, cross-reference psychic information? What I mean to say is, can you in any way maybe link any impressions you’ve had of Max with the others? Or maybe even connect other people’s references to him?”

She shook her head in response. It was an exciting thought. Tasia had to commend him for his creativity, even though she was sure it couldn’t work. However, the thought never left her mind.

“We’re so close. It feels like we’re so close every single time. But there’s always some missing part.”

There were a few missing parts, Tasia had to admit. The visions that she had were vague at best, and at most, they’d been lucky to make the connections between the clues they did have.

“There’s one thing I don’t understand, for example,” Daniel began. “The truck belonged to Max. Max Pearce. So why would Robin’s friend have claimed it was someone else?”

It struck her like a lightning bolt. “Oh my god! Daniel. That’s it!” The truth had been eluding them on the last day, not because of a missing clue but because of a lie. “Max! The truck belonged to Max. This means that Robin never snuck away with a man called Matt. Robin’s friend had lied.

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