Maritime Caper (Coastal Fury Book 12) by Matt Lincoln

Author:Matt Lincoln [Lincoln, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-11T22:00:00+00:00

18

Tessa

Tessa couldn’t help but feel for the museum manager, even if the old woman had been giving her and Ethan the runaround for weeks now. She imagined what it must feel like to know that someone—or multiple someones—had access to your home without your knowledge and could sneak up on you at any moment, watching you for any sign of a wrong move.

Tessa realized that she couldn’t quite imagine what that would be like. It was too horrible to imagine.

“And you still didn’t think to call the police?” she asked Martha, but it wasn’t an accusatory question, more of a pitying one. She realized that the old woman must’ve been really scared not to tell anyone that this was happening to her.

“I was afraid to!” Martha cried, as if this should be obvious, and it kind of was. “They gave me the impression that they were watching me at all times! And goodness, now I’ve gone and told you everything… There’s no way that I can go home now.”

The old woman rested her head in her hands on her desk, and her whole torso started to shake.

Tessa looked back at Ethan, and he sighed.

“I’ll see what I can do,” he murmured, glancing back at her and giving the manager a sympathetic look. “We’re stretched thin as is, but this is a real case now, I’m afraid. Diane will have to help us out.”

Tessa noticed Ethan’s fingers twitching at his side, where she knew he kept his phone.

“Why don’t you go give Diane or Holm a call and let them know what’s going on?” she suggested, knowing that the MBLIS agent was just as anxious to find out what was happening back in Miami as to figure out what was going on here. “I’ll stay here with Martha.”

“I’ll just be right outside the door here,” Ethan said with a curt nod to her. “Holler if you need me.”

Tessa doubted that anything could happen to them inside the museum in broad daylight, but she nodded to him in thanks anyway and then rounded the desk to kneel down next to Martha. The poor woman had worked herself up into hysterics.

“It’s alright, Martha,” she said soothingly, patting the manager on the back of her fluffy sweater. “We’re going to make sure that nothing happens to you.”

“I can’t go back to that house,” the woman said, her voice wobbling just like her body. “They’ll kill me. I swear to God, they’ll kill me.”

“What exactly is it they’re saying to you that makes you think that?” Tessa asked quietly. “It’s not that I don’t believe you, of course. It’s just that it will be way easier for us to help the more details we have available to us.”

“They never left any clues about who they are or what they want,” Martha insisted. “Just thinly veiled threats, letting me know that they were watching. That’s all. I’ve told you everything I know.”

“I’m sure you have,” Tessa said. “It’s just that every little detail counts, even if you don’t realize that something might be important.

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