Let Her Be by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2023-02-23T00:00:00+00:00

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Fiona had been looking for more funeral directors with shady pasts, but no one seemed quite as perfect as Paul Jensen. It had been an hour, and Fiona still hadn’t heard from Jake, but she hoped he was okay. She wasn’t even sure why she was worrying—he was the FBI agent, and the one who’d saved her life. He was a strong, capable man, and definitely didn’t need her worrying about him.

Still, it was in her nature.

A sudden knock at the door broke Fiona’s reverie, and she stood up from her table and went to the door, expecting to see Jake. But when she opened it, it was Lauren standing on the other side with an ice-cold expression. The moment Lauren saw Fiona, she pushed past her, into her room. “Is Jake here?”

Okay, I guess everyone can just burst into my room, Fiona thought bitterly. “No, he isn’t,” she said. “He went to interrogate a suspect.”

“Shit,” Lauren muttered. “That’s why he didn’t answer my call. He’s probably talking to the guy now.”

Silence spread between them. Fiona didn’t know what to say. But she recalled Jake mentioning that Lauren was talking to a suspect too.

“How did yours go?” Fiona asked timidly. Around Lauren, she felt like she was walking on glass, afraid to say the wrong thing.

“Dead end,” Lauren said shortly, crossing her arms. “I did find one thing out, though. All three of the women have been on dating apps over the past several months.”

Dating apps. Fiona suddenly remembered that she still had a profile up, and the thought mortified her. She hadn’t opened it to see if she had any messages, and hadn’t activated push notifications. If one of her colleagues saw that, she would be horrified.

But dating apps were very common these days. Fiona wondered what Lauren was thinking, so she asked, “Do you think the killer is meeting them on there?”

“It’s possible,” Lauren said. “All three girls were officially single. A lot of these dating apps work by deleting messages after a certain period of time, and apparently once they’re gone, they’re gone for good. Makes our lives a bit harder, and it’s something I’ve had to deal with before.”

Fiona nodded. Surely, Lauren had dealt with many things in her time as an agent. Fiona wasn’t sure if Lauren was even three years older than her—probably twenty-eight or twenty-nine, while Fiona was twenty-six—but Lauren exuded an air of experience, like she was much older.

“Another issue,” Lauren said, “is that the girls used a lot of different dating apps. Some of them were removed from their phones. It’s hard to track—there are so many of those stupid things these days.”

Fiona’s cheeks warmed, and she bowed her head. “That’s true.”

“I’m still trying to get access to what I can,” Lauren said, “but we need subpoenas. This dating angle seems to be the best lead we have.”

Fiona didn’t want to overstep, but she felt like the funeral director angle was stronger—especially with Paul Jensen being such a prime suspect. She

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