Girls Missing (Rainey Paxton Series Book 3) by Paige Dearth

Author:Paige Dearth [Dearth, Paige]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fiction With Meaning LLC
Published: 2023-06-06T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Six

Rainey Paxton handed Tootsie a Halligan bar from a large duffel bag Tootsie brought with her.

“Try not to make noise,” Rainey whispered.

“Are you fucking kidding me?” Tootsie growled. “We’re standing here in the middle of the night, breaking into this shithole house, and you think I want to make noise?”

Tootsie slowly craned the Halligan tool under the metal bars at the top of a window, snapping it at each horizontal bar. Once they were all broken, she used her weight to pull the broken side of the bars over until the entire metal grate snapped off. A big smile formed on her face, and she looked at Rainey. “This is why people don’t fuck with me.” She paused and caught her breath. “I’m gonna have to smash the wood in. Is that okay with you?” she asked with a smirk.

“Yes, that’s what she wants,” Rosemary remarked.

Tootsie gripped the bar with both hands and bashed it against the plywood until it popped off and landed inside the house.

The three went in through the window that led to a small sitting room off the kitchen. They were immediately hit with a putrid odor. It was a combination of decay and rotten fruit.

Rainey grabbed Tootsie’s shirt. “We need to be careful. He could be in here.”

The three women moved slowly into the kitchen and stood dazed. They looked around them as their flashlights shone around the room. The walls were covered in beer bottle caps.

Rainey moved to the closest wall, running her hand over the smooth tops. She looked over her shoulder at the other two. “They’re all glued on.” She spun around the kitchen. “Why would someone take the time to glue bottle caps to all four walls?”

“Well,” Tootsie whispered, “because whoever lives here is crazy? I mean, shit, this dude needs to get a life.”

“Shhhhh,” Rosemary hissed with her finger over her lips. “We need to make sure he ain’t hiding in here because he heard us breaking in.” She pointed at a door in the kitchen.

Tootsie crept over, twisted the knob, and pulled the door open. She looked down at a set of wooden stairs. “Come on.”

As Tootsie started down the steps with Rainey and Rosemary close behind her, their flashlights bounced off the block walls. In the flickering beams of light, Rainey saw a lightbulb hanging in the room. She walked over and pulled the string, and the dank, cramped room was illuminated by a dim, yellow bulb.

The three looked around at all the boxes that took up three walls. On the fourth wall was a tool bench with no tools.

Rainey moved to the wall closest to them and pulled the lid open on one box. She glanced at the other two. “Paper . . . magazines . . . old.” She lifted a handful of envelopes. “Junk mail.” She moved to her right and flipped the lid open on the next box. Rainey rummaged through men’s T-shirts, socks, and random items.

After the women had looked inside several boxes and found no incriminating evidence, they went back upstairs.

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