Plain Secrets by Kit Wilkinson

Author:Kit Wilkinson
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2012-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

Hannah looked over at Eli. “Are you okay?”

“More like are you okay?” Eli gave her a cockeyed smile. “I’m fine. But I am anxious to get going. We need to get to Brittney before she and her father hear that we’re coming. Are you two able to handle that? Or was this too much already?”

“We are fine. Maybe not used to being eyed like animals for the purchase. But fine,” Abigail answered.

“I will be fine.” Hannah nodded. “This is why you did not tell them you were a police officer? Because they will bring more trouble? Do you not think that they—that they…”

“Killed Jessica?”

“No. I don’t think they are killers. Not yet. They are just the lookout. Brittney’s father must have some power over them. I’d guess they are on their way right now to warn him that we are here.”

They entered the building and took an elevator to the fifth floor. The apartments had a strange odor, although the interior proved to be much nicer than what the outside had first promised. The paint was clean. The woodwork and carpets were fancy and colorful.

Elijah knocked at door 502. He held his little card to a small glass hole in the center of the door and announced himself as Detective Miller of the Philadelphia Police Department. The door creaked open though it was still connected to the wall by a link chain, as if someone expected a person to knock and then come bursting into the house. These English were most strange. She didn’t know how Elijah had made his way among them for so many years.

“My stepfather isn’t…” The dark-headed girl at the door stopped speaking as her eyes fell on Hannah and Abigail and their clothing.

Through the tiny slit of a doorway, Hannah could tell the girl was thin and tall. And very pretty. Much like the dark looks of her girl Jessica. Most certainly they were close in age. Was this girl the reason for Jessica’s death? Hannah bit her lip, trying to shut out the wild surge of desperate emotions that filled her heart.

“Not here to see anyone’s father. We’re here to see Brittney Baker,” Elijah said. “Are you Brittney Baker?”

The girl was wide-eyed. “Why do you need to talk to Brittney Baker?”

“We understand that she’s friends with a girl named Jessica Nolt. We have some questions for her.”

The girl seemed to consider his words for a few seconds, and then the door closed fast. Hannah heard the metal of the chain slinking behind the door, and then the girl opened it again, completely, and bade them enter, but only into the foyer.

“I haven’t seen Jessica in a week.” She stared at Hannah. “Are you her mom? She said her mom was young and had green eyes.”

“Are you Brittney Baker?” Elijah asked before Hannah could reply.

“Yeah, I’m Brittney.” She shuffled her weight from side to side and pulled the small, short jacket tight around her shoulders. “So what?”

“Can we ask you a few questions about Jessica? It won’t take long.

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