Puppy Mills, Puppy Kills (Animal Instincts Book 3) by Chloe Kendrick

Author:Chloe Kendrick
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-10-21T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

I drove back to my place in silence. Damn, my own game had checked me. I knew who had hired me and why, but I couldn’t share that information. I could imagine the look on Green’s face when she heard that someone had hired me to be the sideshow for this murder. I was the distraction so that others could carry out what they wanted. Just as this case had too many dogs, it also had too many people involved in it. I liked it better when one person was responsible for the problems, not an entire group, some of whom even liked Fred Zook.

I’d totally expected Zook to be roundly despised for his profession, but I was finding people who’d done business with him on a regular basis and now wanted to buy his stock. This was not the man that I had built up in my mind. So often we get preconceptions about a person based on a single characteristic, but as I got to know the man, he’d done bad things with good results. I wasn’t sure how to feel about that.

I came home to find that the little Corgi girl had attacked a roll of toilet paper and made confetti of it. I took my time cleaning up, trying to encourage her to stay away from it with little success.

The list of names of Zook’s clients still rested on top of the computer, far from the teeth of little puppies. It was too late to start more calling tonight, so I grabbed the police folder from my sister’s disappearance and went upstairs to read in bed.

I made it through another seven pages before nodding off. My dreams were troubling, thinking of Susan again. I hadn’t dreamed of her in years, but tonight she came to me in my dreams as vividly as the day she’d disappeared. I woke up with a profound sense of loss.

The feeling persisted as I got ready that morning. It showed in my choice of clothing, a pair of irregular jeans and a long-sleeved t-shirt that I’d found at a thrift store. It had a photo of dogs on the chest, which had first attracted me to the shirt. I felt more like the old Griff as I looked in the mirror and not doing much with my hair. I was comfortable in hiding behind my slovenliness.

The phone rang before I could leave the house. I answered and Detective Green was on the other end of the phone. “I found out some things about the missing person,” she said without wasting time on chit-chat.

My first reaction was to think of Susan, but I realized quickly that she was talking about the body under the crates in the barn. “Got a name or address?” I asked hopefully, though I knew she wouldn’t be calling me if they had found the information. The police department would have cancelled my contract without comment if that had happened. I was in a race to get paid at this point, and Green knew that I wanted the money.

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