Hush Hush by Erik Carter

Author:Erik Carter [Carter, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Silence and Jonah moved briskly down the sidewalk. Jonah had been pissy with him since they bolted out of the Internet café.

“Man, so what if Beasley’s in danger?” Jonah said. “He’s a junkie, and he hurts women.”

Silence didn’t respond.

Perhaps there was something within Silence that wanted to help Beasley, more flickers of the deep compassion he’d had in his prior life. But if he was being honest with himself, Silence cared little more than Jonah did about the man’s safety.

Rather, Silence wanted to find out what happened to Amber Lund, and he wanted to go home. And Ray Beasley was the key.

“I thought you’re here to help find out what happened to Amber.”

“I am.”

“Then why the hell are we back at Beasley’s?” He was shouting now. “This is a dead end!”

Silence came to a stop. Jonah continued a couple steps ahead of him before he followed suit, his shoes scuffling on the concrete.

Silence shook his head. “No. Just the opposite.” He swallowed. “He’s the key.”

Jonah’s eyebrows unknitted. His lips parted. He looked at Silence expectantly, wanting more.

So Silence added, “Beasley will lead us…” Another swallow. “To our answer.”

Something deep inside Silence was talking to him, screaming at him, telling him to get to Beasley. Amber had written his name, his derogatory nickname, “Weasel,” along with his prior address at the homeless shelter. After all these years. She’d reached out to him, and he hadn’t been a corrupt member of C11.

Beasley was the key to it all.

Jonah’s mouth opened in a kind of bewildered astonishment, as though he trusted Silence but his mind wouldn’t process the fact that he might soon learn what happened to his dead wife.

There was no time to dwell. Silence brushed past him, and he was about to turn onto the sidewalk leading through the lush green lawn to Beasley’s townhouse when there was a voice.

Someone shouted from behind.

He stopped. Turned.

It was Kim Hurley, the woman who’d been following them, the one who claimed she wasn’t in cahoots with the other person following them.

And she was running right for them.

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