Girl Lost by Kate Gable

Author:Kate Gable [Gable, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781632252708
Publisher: Byrd Books

14

I get back to the precinct late that night. Most people have already left, but I stay at my desk for a while, trying to get everything done that normally would take two days. I need to be in Captain Medvil’s good graces before I ask him for more time off to go back home and search for my sister.

Every day feels a little bit like a twilight zone. I split my time between LA and the small mountain town where I grew up, only there's nothing bucolic or wonderful about it this time. I'm not a visitor. I'm not trying to get away from the traffic or the hustle and bustle of the Southern California valley below. This time I go there to search for ghosts. When I get home, I decide to take a bath. I haven't taken one in years, but something about it calls to me. I light some candles, a birthday present from Sydney from only a month ago, but it feels like it was years.

In addition to the candles, Sydney had presented me with a bamboo table big enough to fit a phone and an iPad to go over the bathtub, one of those things people always have in movies at fancy hotels where you get into a large soaking tub and forget all of your problems.

My apartment is a lightyear away from that life, but when I put the shelf over the tub, throw in some bath bombs, lower the lights, grab my iPad, and open a book I have been reading for close to two weeks, the world falls away. For a good half an hour, I find myself somewhere in another world, worried about a duke and his bride with a disapproving father who refuses to let them marry. I like stories like these, set in lands far away in other worlds where murders don't happen, where DNA doesn't exist, and where people have problems that are very dissimilar from my own.

I let my body relax and I lay my head against a towel folded up into a makeshift pillow. I let my eyes slowly close and my mind drift away. I don't know how much time has passed when I wake up, but I get somewhat of a rude awakening when my nose drops below the level of the water and I breathe in and choke. I splash some water on my face and then lather up some shampoo and wash my hair. Bubbles fill up the tub, mixing with the old ones from the bath bomb. I rinse it out, trying to get the last bit of the shampoo without much success when my phone rings.

It's Captain Talarico from Big Bear Sheriff's Station.

"Any news?" I ask, knowing fully well that he wouldn't be calling me otherwise. It's after midnight and I wonder if he's on his way home, tucked into bed, or still at the office.

"The search found nothing out of the ordinary," he says.

My mom had already messaged that to me, but I wasn't fully convinced until I heard it from him.

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