K-9 Hideout by Elizabeth Heiter

Author:Elizabeth Heiter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-04-07T19:59:17+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Two hours later, Sabrina sat at Tate’s desk in the bullpen of the Desparre police station. Blown up to two hundred percent on the computer screen in front of her was a picture taken by a coworker back in New York almost three years ago. A good three months before she’d received the first letter from her stalker.

In the picture, she was smiling and laughing. She wanted to reach out and touch the screen, try to recapture that level of happiness. There was no cloud of fear hanging over her then, no paranoia. Three years wasn’t that long ago, and yet, that feeling seemed so out of reach now.

Behind her, maybe loosely a part of the group she was with, maybe not, was someone who sure looked like Adam Lassiter. The picture was grainy enough that she couldn’t be positive. If it was really Adam, he’d lost about fifty pounds, replacing it with lean muscle. He’d also cut his hair close to the scalp, making it seem lighter than it did in the photo. He even dressed differently now, in a lot of cargo pants and T-shirts, rather than the striped button-down from the photo.

Maybe it was just wishful thinking to believe it might not be the same person. She’d talked to Adam, laughed with Adam. She’d walked blithely into the woods with him alone. She’d almost invited him into her house.

All her earlier feelings of determination to move forward, to trust her own judgment again and stop jumping at shadows, fell away. What was left was a sadness that seemed to hollow her out.

Tate’s hand closed over her forearm, and when she glanced at him, there was sympathy in his gaze.

She eased her arm away and turned to face him. The other officers were occupied on their computers trying to dig up more information about Adam, yet she kept her voice soft, so much so that he leaned closer. Ever since they’d gotten to the station, she’d been holding in her question about how he’d found Adam in an old picture. There was only one way she could imagine. “How did you figure out my last name?”

Guilt crossed over his face, quickly enough that she wasn’t sure if she’d imagined it. “I looked for information on a murder in New York City from two years ago where news stories mentioned a stalker.”

She nodded and turned back to the computer, saying nothing. The most basic information about why she was running, and it had given away more details about herself than she’d wanted to share.

“I’m sorry,” he said, maneuvering so he was in her line of sight, as Sitka whined at her side.

She didn’t respond to either of them, just continued to stare at the image. How had she been so wrong? “Do you think Adam was trying to push me off that cliff? Then he changed his mind and grabbed me?”

“I doubt it,” Tate said, but his tone told her what he thought was worse.

Reluctantly, she refocused her gaze on him.

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