Distant Deep by Jennifer Skogen

Author:Jennifer Skogen
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: EPIC Press
Published: 2015-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“Okay, where do we start?” Gregory asked. They had parked the car in a garage a few blocks up from the water and had set out on foot. It would be easier, they figured, to spot her if they were walking.

“Just start knocking on hotel doors I suppose.” Trev had the hood of his raincoat pulled tight around his face. The raindrops had only gotten bigger and colder until they formed a slushy hybrid of rain and snow.

When they had first driven off the ferry, Trev saw the ghost of a teenage girl staring at him from the sidewalk. She was wearing ripped jeans and a black shirt, and Trev could tell she was a ghost because another pedestrian walked right through her.

The ghost then tried to grab the man who had passed through her ghostly form, but her hands wouldn’t latch on. She looked like she was screaming. Trev met her eyes as Gregory drove past. He could practically taste the anger that was coming off her. Bitter oranges and bile.

Now, with a whole city to sift through searching for one redhead, Trev felt a hopelessness begin to creep into the base of his throat. He swallowed down the lump that had formed and blinked his tired eyes up at the tall, blank-faced buildings. Where to start, indeed?

“So,” Trev said, wiping his rain-splattered glasses off on his jeans, “maybe we should start with the downtown hotels? We could just show them her picture. Ask if anyone’s seen her?”

“What kind of place would she stay?”

“Somewhere nice, probably. With a pool and those big puffy white bathrobes. She likes to steal those.” Trev got out his phone and did a search for hotels in the downtown area. He had already done this search several times on the drive to the ferry and on the ferry itself, but he hadn’t written anything down. It was comforting to be able to type something into his phone and have an answer. It almost felt like he was doing something.

Gregory frowned. “But wouldn’t she know we’d look for her in a nice hotel? Maybe she’s in a motel by the freeway? Or an abandoned house somewhere?”

Trev blinked more rain out of his eyes. “Or she’ll think that we’ll assume that she’ll avoid the nice hotels and go stay in the fanciest one because she’s my sister, and she has very little impulse control.” Trev pointed up the block. “There’s a Four Seasons that way. Shall we just start knocking?”

The first three hotels they checked were discouraging to say the least. No one had seen anyone like Sam. Trev had a few decent pictures of her on his phone, but when he said that she also had a black eye and possibly a split lip, all of the front desk people had given him these really weird looks when they said that nobody fitting that description had checked in.

He told them she was his sister and that she was a runaway, which was so close to the truth that Trev felt almost guilty, like he was lying to them about telling a lie.

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