Out of Nowhere (The Immortal Vagabond Healer Book 1) by LeClerc Patrick

Author:LeClerc, Patrick [LeClerc, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909256088
Publisher: Firedance Books
Published: 2012-08-03T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 19

SARAH SIGHED CONTENTEDLY and whispered, ‘I’m glad you decided to walk into my office that day, you know.’

I breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of her hair, the clean smell of her shampoo with an edge of sweat beneath. ‘So am I,’ I replied.

After a while we got out of bed. I made coffee and turned on the news, wondering how an apartment full of dead bodies would play on the local broadcast. To my surprise, there was no mention of it.

I flipped to another station, wondering how a triple murder wasn’t a lead story. My struggle had to have gotten the downstairs neighbors nosy. In the projects of Philips Mills, neighbors turned up the TV and didn’t get involved with the violence next door, but the solid citizens of North Andover generally didn’t roll that way.

Sarah’s phone rang. She looked at the number then at me. ‘It’s the police.’

‘Better take it,’ I replied. ‘Act surprised. Say you’re out of town.’

She nodded. ‘Hello... This is she.’

I smiled. English professor.

‘Oh my God! No, no, I’m fine. I had no idea... I’m... away. In Vermont. No, not business… Just a little Bed and Breakfast... Not that I can think of.’

I began to make the classic “cut it short” motion across my throat.

‘No. No. Look.’ She lowered her voice. ‘Is there a number I can call you back at, officer? Sorry, Detective. Alright, thanks. Yes, yes, I’ll be in touch.’

She hung up. I smiled and applauded. ‘Encore.’

‘Thank you, thank you.’ She bowed. ‘But I really want to direct.’

‘So, what’s the story?’

‘Well, they said there was a break-in and my apartment was trashed.’

‘That’s all?’

‘He asked about an angry ex. I’ll bet he thinks I’m up in Vermont with some new flame, shaking the paintings off the walls. I could hear the leer through the phone.’

‘You played it up nice. Let him go looking for the mythical jilted ex-boyfriend. Nothing about the dead guys?’ I wondered.

She shook her head. ‘Not a word. I can’t imagine it slipped his mind, so what happened to the bodies?’

I had no idea. The most likely answer was that the organization did a quick cleanup when the team didn’t report in, but how they moved three corpses and cleaned up the gore without leaving a trace or drawing stares, I couldn’t say. Or maybe Doors and his buddies had bought a few cops, and were keeping things quiet that way. That was one reason I had her cut the conversation short. If the investigation was legitimate, her excuse made sense; but if the detective were somehow involved, I didn’t want to give him time to trace her cell phone signal.

‘I’m beginning to realize just how much I don’t know,’ I said.

‘So what do we do about that?’

I shrugged. ‘I’ve hit a bunch of dead ends, and even those brought down more heat than I wanted. I have an address for a business that’s probably a front.’

‘They have a website?’

‘A typical one. Vague mission statement, in the finest corporate inspirational language, list of services that somehow omitted strong-arm tactics and body disposal.

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