Forest of Secrets: Addictive crime mystery with shocking twist (Alexis Forrest FBI Mystery Thriller Book 3) by Kate Gable

Author:Kate Gable [Gable, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Byrd Books, LLC
Published: 2024-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

20

ALEXIS

“Alexis? What are you still doing here?”

Captain Felch’s voice penetrates the fog that’s wrapped itself around my brain. No, it’s worse than a fog, come to think of it. It’s a blanket. Thick and heavy enough that it makes keeping my head up a chore. I want to lie down. I want to think.

Not that it would make a difference.

“Alexis.” He steps into my makeshift office and stands beside my chair, his hand dropping onto my shoulder. That’s what snaps me out of my blank shock.

I look up at him, blinking fast. “I’m sorry,” I murmur. My mouth is parched and my lip stings from the chewing I’ve done. “I was waiting here.”

“Waiting for what? You told me you were going to ride around Alyssa’s neighborhood. That was more than an hour ago – have you been here all this time?”

I nod when my voice fails me. How long has he been watching? Where is he now? Is it him, really him? “I’m waiting.”

“So you told me.” He leans on the desk, gazing down at me in obvious concern. “What are you waiting for?”

I need to pull myself together. The only feeling I can compare this to is waking up from a long afternoon nap, fuzzy and wondering what day it is. Sitting up straighter, I square my shoulders. “Confirmation. One of the girls downstairs put a package together for me and sent it to the lab in Virginia. I had her expedite it. I called the lab and let them know it was on its way. I’m waiting for confirmation the package got picked up.” And thinking. Wondering. Looking back on the past days and weeks, asking myself whether he was watching.

“What did you send? You found something new?”

Alexis, get it together. A glance at the clock tells me I have, indeed, been sitting here for more than an hour as the world has kept turning around me. Sitting and questioning.

My phone is sitting on the desk. I turn it over and pull up the photos I took earlier. Handing it to him, I explain, “I found this on my car when I went outside. I’ve never left the station.”

He tips his head to the side, studying the image. “I don’t understand. Someone left this for you?”

“Under my wiper. It was waiting for me when I went outside. Like I said, I sent it to the lab for analysis, then I guess I sort of zoned out.”

“Oh, no.” He goes back-and-forth between the two images, the front and back of the note. “Any idea who might’ve left it?”

“You have to know where my mind immediately went.”

His eyes meet mine before going narrow, his brows drawing together over the bridge of his slightly crooked nose. “You think so? Do you think he’s been in town all this time?” It’s almost a relief, really, that I don’t have to explain myself.

“All this time? I’m not sure. Right now?” I shrug when words fail me. “I’ve sat here all this time, going back over everything I’ve done over the last week or more.

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