Little Girls Sleeping by Jennifer Chase

Author:Jennifer Chase [Chase, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786818294
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Eight

Katie sat in the back of an ambulance while the attending paramedic checked her cuts and abrasions and took her vital signs. The more she thought about the incident, the more infuriated she became. Not because she’d been the target, but because she couldn’t give any decent information about the truck.

No license plate. No identifying characteristics. No description of the driver. No video cameras in the vicinity to show the incident. Nothing to help identify this person who was intent on harming her—or at the very least, trying to scare her.

The only thing she could think of was obtaining evidence from the tire marks. There were several feet of precise and perfectly preserved indentations. It would help facilitate the investigation only when there were other tire marks to compare, but Katie thought it was best to have crime-scene technicians photograph them and create impressions.

“Hey,” said Deputy McGaven, coming up to the back of the ambulance. “You okay?” He sounded concerned.

Katie smiled. “Yeah, just some bumps and bruises.”

“Did you see the driver, or a license plate?”

She shook her head. “Unfortunately, no. And believe me, it’s going to haunt me.”

He gestured to the forensic technicians hovering over the evidence. “Great instincts to get the tire-mark impressions.”

“McGaven?” she said.

“Yeah.”

“You feeling okay this morning?”

“Yeah, why?”

Katie smiled. “Never mind.”

The paramedic took the Velcro blood-pressure armband off her right bicep area and continued to wrap bandages around her forearms, which had seemed to take the brunt of her fall.

Katie began to feel the pulsating pain now, as her adrenalin had had plenty of time to cool off.

“That about does it,” said the paramedic. “You should get checked out at the hospital.”

“I’m fine, really,” Katie stressed. “I’ve taken worse, that’s for sure.” She stood up. “McGaven, can you drive me to my house so that I can change?” she asked. Her legs felt fatigued and strangely rubbery. As she walked toward the crime-scene area, it was as if she was trudging through drying cement.

“You’re not coming to work today,” said the sheriff as he walked up behind her and the deputy.

He had heard about the truck incident from the police scanner. Most of the department had probably heard about it.

“I’m fine,” Katie repeated.

“Take the day off, that’s a direct order,” he said. His voice softened a bit. “Just go home and rest. Forensics haven’t completed their examinations of the caskets and clothing. And there might be more to come from Dr. Dean.”

“Maybe I will rest for a couple of hours,” she conceded. “I’ll have my report to you as soon as—”

“The entire day,” Sheriff Scott reminded her. Then, to McGaven, “Please take her home and make sure she stays there… and doesn’t ditch you this time.” He smiled, but the authority in his voice and posture was more like a warning to the deputy.

“Fine,” stated Katie. The more she argued, the more tired she became. “Let’s go,” she ordered McGaven.

This was exactly what the killer wanted: for Katie to be out of the game. She knew this meant she was getting closer to solving the case.

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