Key Raiders by Matt Lincoln

Author:Matt Lincoln [Lincoln, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-06T22:00:00+00:00

18

Ethan

“Ready to go?” Detective Martin asked eagerly when Holm, Muñoz, and I re-entered the main room of the police station.

“Yeah, you can come with us if you want,” I said, waving him after us, and I didn’t think I’d ever seen anyone move quite that fast.

We all piled into my car and drove to the address Muñoz had found in Derek’s phone, with her giving me directions from the passenger's seat.

“Did you get anything from the kid?” Martin asked from where he sat in the backseat next to Holm.

“Could be,” I said, nodding slowly. “Does the name Chris Daniels mean anything to you?”

“Chris Daniels…” Martin murmured, scrunching up his face as if trying to remember, and then shaking his head. “No, doesn’t ring a bell. I did find a couple of other Daniels with files in our precinct, but both were from tourists who committed petty crimes years ago. Do you think this Chris character’s the Daniels you’ve been looking for?”

“Probably,” I said, not wanting to get ahead of myself. “Seems like a guy by that name enlisted Derek back in Key West. Are you able to share records with the other islands? Is there a way you can see if anyone’s looking for someone by that name?”

“Yeah, I can get a call in,” Martin said eagerly, pulling his phone out of his pocket. “I’ll message a friend of mine with the Key West Police Department now.”

“Thanks,” I said, nodding to him in the rearview mirror.

We were driving along the coast of the island by then, and the view of the ocean was stunning. Rolling waves and birds flying along the horizon brought a sense of calm to me that I hadn’t experienced since finding out that Birn was missing, or if I was honest since I’d found out that what I had originally thought to be Grendel’s journal was a fake.

“I could get used to this, yes, sir,” Holm murmured as he too admired the view, and I couldn’t help but chuckle. I was pleasantly surprised to notice that even Muñoz was cracking a smile.

“Okay, he says he’s going to take a look when he gets a chance,” Martin told me several moments later. “I’ll let you know what he says. They’re… a bit busier over there than we are here.”

“I can imagine,” I said dryly, and Martin sighed.

“I know what it must seem like to you, but Rollins is really a good chief,” he said. “Everyone loves him, inside the police force and in the community. He’s just not used to having to deal with something like this.”

“I believe you,” I promised the detective, meeting his eyes again in the rearview mirror. “Don’t worry. We’ve seen it all. This doesn’t even clock in the top fifty.”

“Okay,” Martin said with a nervous half-grin and a laugh, his shoulders seeming to relax at this. “Good to know.”

“So, are you going to transfer to one of the bigger Keys at some point?” Muñoz asked the guy. “Your boss seemed to think you were headed in that direction.

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