Count Their Graves: A completely gripping and unputdownable crime thriller by Jennifer Chase

Author:Jennifer Chase [Chase, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2024-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SIX

Saturday 2200 hours

When things slowed down it was the most difficult for Katie; when the leads ran dry and the adrenalin of a case subsided she had to face her emotions, and her life. It wasn’t the same as when she was running, which helped to clear her mind. Katie couldn’t sleep. She couldn’t eat. She didn’t want to talk to anyone. She didn’t answer text messages from her uncle, McGaven, or John. They were checking in on her, which made her feel good. But she didn’t want to talk about Chad or how she felt about the case. They were family. That was how she explained the people in her life that she worked with—family.

Every time she closed her eyes, she saw Tessa or Emily, hugging her teddy bear. Both equally heart-wrenching to Katie—she felt helpless. She wasn’t sure she could take it if Emily ended up like Tessa.

As she sipped at another cup of hot tea, she curled up on the couch dressed in pajamas with Cisco fast asleep next to her. Her breathing felt strange due to the smoke but her arm felt much better. She was exhausted, mentally and physically. Rerunning everything that had happened that day was only making her body and mind weaken.

The tea felt soothing and she was about to have another. Then it hit her. She hadn’t heard from Chad. She knew he was moving and it was a big upheaval for him, but she was upset he hadn’t been in touch. She had to come to terms that she wasn’t a priority to him anymore. It wasn’t as if they were never going to talk again—but at the moment it felt like a part of her had died.

Katie got up and headed to the kitchen. Cisco grumbled at the movement and then resituated himself before falling back to sleep.

Suddenly her Jeep alarm went off. Blaring in between honks and a siren, it shattered the silence.

Katie immediately grabbed her keys to try and disarm it, but the signal wouldn’t work through the walls. Cisco stood on the couch barking.

Katie grabbed her Glock and headed to the front door. She peered through the peephole. There wasn’t anyone outside, but her car kept blaring.

Barefoot with her gun guiding her way, Katie cleared the porch and the front yard before moving toward the Jeep. She tried her fob key again, and suddenly it shut off the alarm abruptly.

Katie breathed a sigh of relief.

Silence filled the night.

Cisco’s rapid barks then filled the silence.

Katie could feel the cold driveway beneath her bare feet, making her shudder. Her pajamas weren’t warm enough for the chilly evening. Thinking the alarm was a malfunction of sorts, she neared her car. On the passenger’s side window were words written in some type of grease marker.

You’ll never find her.

Katie stood motionless, staring at the words. She wasn’t sure what disturbed her more—the fact that the person who had written the message was obviously talking about Emily, or why her house security system didn’t alert her to the motion in her driveway.

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