Faint Cold Fear by Slaughter Karin

Author:Slaughter, Karin [Slaughter, Karin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2003-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

NINE

Jeffrey stood in the hallway outside the interrogation room, waiting for Frank. He had been in the observation area, watching Lena through the one-way glass, but the way she stared at the mirror made him uncomfortable, even though he knew she could not see through.

He had taken Frank to Lena's apartment this morning, hoping to talk some sense into her. The night before, Jeffrey had rehearsed in his mind how it would go. They would all sit down and talk, maybe drink some coffee, and figure out what was going on.

The plan was perfect except for Ethan White's getting in the way.

'Chief,' Frank said, his tone low. He had two cups of coffee in his hands, and Jeffrey took one, even though he already had enough caffeine in his system to make the hair on his arms vibrate.

'Did the file come in?' Jeffrey asked. The fingerprints from the cup Ethan had used were not much help, but his name and driver's-license number had hit the jackpot. Not only did Ethan White have a record, he had a parole officer in town. Diane Sanders, his PO, was bringing in White's sheet herself.

'I told Maria to send her back here,' Frank said, taking a sip of his coffee. 'Sara find anything on the Rosen kid?'

'No,' Jeffrey said. Sara had performed Andy Rosen's autopsy right after she finished with Ellen Schaffer.

The body held no startling revelations, and, but for Jeffrey and Sara's suspicions, there was nothing that pointed to murder.

He told Frank, 'Schaffer's definitely a homicide.

There's no way the two of them aren't connected.

We're just not seeing it.'

'And Tessa?'

Jeffrey shrugged, his mind reeling as he tried to find a connection that would make sense. He had kept Sara awake most of the night trying to figure out how all three victims were connected. Ten minutes had passed before he realized she had finally fallen asleep at the kitchen table.

Frank looked through the small window in the interrogation-room door, watching Lena. 'She say anything?'

'I didn't even try,' Jeffrey said. Mostly, he did not know what to ask her. Jeffrey had been shocked to find Ethan in the room when they busted down the door, and then scared as shit when Lena did not immediately come out of the bathroom. For a split second, he had been certain she was lying dead on the floor.

He would not soon forget the panic he felt before she finally came out or the horror when he realized that not only had she let that kid hit her, she was covering for him.

Frank said, 'This don't seem like Lena.'

'Something's going on,' Jeffrey agreed.

'You think she let that punk hit her?' Frank asked.

Jeffrey took a sip of coffee, thinking about the one thing he did not want to consider. 'Did you see her wrist?'

'Looks pretty bad,' Frank agreed.

'I don't like any of this.'

Frank said, 'Here's Diane.'

Diane Sanders was of average height and build with the most beautiful gray hair Jeffrey had ever seen. On the surface she was fairly unremarkable, but there was a raw sexuality underneath that always took Jeffrey by surprise.

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