Heather Graham - 13 The Hexed by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Heather Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Devin was certain that Jack Grail was looking at her with suspicion, even though Rocky had explained to Jack that they had been searching for a long-dead woman, not another recent victim.

The day had become filled with crime scene technicians, the Boston M.E. and his crew and a multitude of police—state and local—along with representatives from the museum to assist in the investigation of the bones and, of course, the FBI team. Officers from a number of the small area towns kept crowd control running smoothly.

Rocky and the rest of the Krewe had focused on the latest murder victim until Jack and his men had arrived to join them.

Now, though Jack was being polite and hadn’t even suggested that he intended to take her down to the station for questioning, much less arrest her, he seemed to be asking the same questions over and over again.

“Devin, I still don’t understand—why this sudden interest in quite literally digging up a woman who’s been all but lost to history? And what made you think someone would kill her and bury her here, where, if you’re right, they were hanging the condemned witches? And, you, Rocky! What the hell were you doing focusing a full FBI team on a woman who died hundreds of years ago just because Devin got caught up in some historical wild-goose chase, when we have our own murders to solve?”

“Why the hell shouldn’t I?” Rocky demanded, his tone irritated. “It’s not like we’ve been getting anywhere with the current case, and the whole witchcraft-Wiccan connection seems to tie the present to the past, don’t you think? And the fact that we found another victim here on what may very well be the real Gallows Hill seems like a pretty strong indication I’m right.”

“But you were looking for a victim murdered three hundred years ago!” Jack said. “It was pure luck that you—that Devin—stumbled on another body. Not to mention that there were no witches in 1692,” Jack said. “No real witches, anyway.”

“No, but we wouldn’t have the Wiccan community we have here now if it hadn’t been for the witch trials,” Devin said. “There’s a connection here, we just don’t know what it is yet. Maybe revenge.”

“You think someone is killing people over a three-hundred-year-old grudge?” Jack said incredulously. “Come on, you grew up here. What have the descendants of the victims done? They’ve demanded that their ancestors be pardoned—that’s what they’ve done. They haven’t gone running around killing other innocent people.”

“Jack, I don’t know. I don’t have any answers—not yet. But I was researching, and―”

“Stop researching,” Jack snapped.

“Dammit, Jack!” Rocky told him. She could see that Rocky was becoming heated in her defense, and despite everything, it filled her with warmth.

“Hey,” she said softly. “I know you guys are both the pros and I’m just a writer, but I can’t help thinking that if you can find the motive, it will help you find the killer.”

“I hope so,” Jack said. “Because now we have a third body on our hands.

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