Poison by Jordyn Redwood

Author:Jordyn Redwood [Redwood, Jordyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

SATURDAY’S WEATHER AND Friday’s blizzard were a dichotomy. The early morning sun was bright. Water dripped from the bare bones of sleeping trees. Rivers of melted ice coursed their way to the city’s underground. The old catch phrase of Colorado weather flashed in Lee’s mind. “If you don’t like today’s weather, just wait until tomorrow.” Though a day was usually considered too long to wait for a change. Most often it occurred in about an hour.

Lee parked his car in front of Ryan’s small home that sat near the border of Aurora and Denver. It was what Keelyn would call a quaint cottage, not befitting a young man but definitely a home with a magnetizing effect on the opposite sex.

And likely the rent was cheap.

After he closed the door to his vehicle, he made his way up the wet pavement. He’d asked the Zurchers for a key under the guise of bringing some of Ryan’s belongings to the hospital. He inserted it into the lock.

He didn’t divulge he was searching for clues regarding a possible attempted murder.

The door opened, the squeaky hinges breaking the silence of the quiet day. Lee tapped his boots on the bottom of the door frame to clear muddied slush and stepped inside, easing the door closed behind him.

It smelled sweet, like someone had baked sugar cookies. Lee walked a few paces down the hall and eyed a small office to the left and an extra tiny dining room to the right. A few more steps brought him to the main living room. Things were in order with the underpinnings of dirt usually overlooked. A turn to the right brought him to the single bedroom.

The bed was black veneered wood. Walls painted a near-turquoise blue made the room feel like a cave. Lee opened the nightstand drawers. A few fiction books. Glasses. A remote for the television that hung on the opposite wall.

A small bathroom was off to the right side of the bed. He opened the mirrored medicine chest. Every pharmaceutical looked benign enough. Most were over-the-counter analgesics, cold and allergy medicine. One prescription bottle for steroids filled over two years ago. Lee opened the bottle and counted the pills. Only two missing.

No syringes or vials.

Lee made his way to the kitchen and grabbed a kitchen-sized trash bag. On the counter stood several glasses. He examined the rim of each one.

No lipstick prints mired the edges. He sniffed them. They smelled like sweet tea.

Returning to the bathroom, he grabbed Ryan’s toothbrush and toothpaste. In the bedroom, he packed clean shorts and several pairs of sweats.

None of these items mattered if Ryan didn’t recover.

It was more for the benefit of the parents.

What was lacking was any evidence a woman had visited. Was it intentional? Someone purposefully trying to hide her fingerprints?

The backup beep of a dump truck tapped at Lee’s mind. His heart hammered as he raced out the front door to the street, the white bag slapping against the back of his legs as he ran.

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