Lala Thankyou_Dark Homecoming by Erica Gerald Mason

Author:Erica Gerald Mason [Mason, Erica Gerald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

5

After a half an hour of searching downtown Indianapolis, Stephens called everyone off and we went back to the police station. Dannon, Stephens and I sat in a conference room trying to figure out how the killer escaped. Again. Or more like Dannon and Stephens screamed at each other as I sat at the table drinking a glass of water.

"Dannon, he saw you, how else do you explain it?" Stephens said.

"Look, I'm telling you for the hundredth time...he didn't look back. He figured me out another way." Dannon shouted.

"Ok then. Tell me what happened." Stephens said, folding his arms over his chest and glaring at Dannon.

"Not much to tell. I followed him for five blocks. He went into the library. I followed him inside and couldn't find him. I looked everywhere. He walked inside and disappeared."

"He knew you were following him."

“I’m telling you. There’s no way he knew!”

I listened to the two of them argue. Stephens was right. The killer recognized the trap, but how? Did he have an accomplice? A friend who tailed our tail? I knew it sounded crazy, but it sounded like the most likely explanation.

If the killer worked with someone today, it was because he knew I’d try to catch him. But that would mean the friend would have to hang back...like way back, in case there was more than one police officer tailing the killer. It made little sense. It was like the killer knew there was only one person following him.

"Laz, are you OK?" Olivia asked me. I hadn’t heard her come in. Everything felt wrong about the tail. The ease of which the guy escaped couldn't just be coincidence. A few moments later I had it.

"He knows what we know." I said.

"Yes. We know that he knows." Dannon groaned. "That's how he got away."

"No, that’s not what I mean. The killer knew about the plan. He knows what we know." I repeated. I turned to stare at the group; they looked confused.

"Um. What? I don’t get it." Olivia said.

"Here’s the thing: how could he have guessed that he was being followed? Do you think he saw Dannon in like, a mirror or something stupid like that? And then he came up with a plan to lose him... that worked? He had to have had help. Dannon says he didn't turn around—"

"No, no...hold up...wait. If the killer figured it out, he could've shaken Dannon. The library is huge" Olivia said, cutting me off.

"That’s it. That’s how I know. You can lose one guy in the library. Jow did the killer know there was only one guy on him?" I asked. "Let’s say you’re right. Let’s say he saw Dannon following him, that doesn't mean there couldn't have been a second or third or a fourth or a fifth on him he didn’t see."

"Maybe he thought there was only one and got lucky," Olivia answered. “It happens more often than you think in police work.”

"His escape worked too well for it to have been luck. We didn’t get learn anything about this guy.

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