Ruby Red by Sarah Mack

Author:Sarah Mack [Mack, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

Julia

Nothing was right in the world. Her parents had been brutally murdered, and Julia felt an overwhelming anger that that monster Allan Bigsby had taken them from her. She wanted her parents back, but that wasn’t possible. So she wanted the next best thing: revenge.

It had been almost a week since she’d gotten that call from Barrett and Julia had spent the entire time on high alert, terrified that Bigsby was coming for her and Ella next. Barrett had suggested it might be smart to relocate Ella until they caught Allan Bigsby, and even though Julia didn’t want to part with her daughter she couldn’t deny that it was a good idea. Barrett’s own mother flew to Reno from Seattle to pick Ella up and take her back to Seattle. They had just watched the plane holding the most important thing in her life fly off into the distance.

Julia had always liked Suzanne. Granted, she hadn’t always been the most present grandparent in Ella’s life, but she always called on the important days like birthdays and holidays. And although she wasn’t happy about it, she had understood when Julia had insisted on a divorce from Barrett.

In the car, driving away from the airport, Barrett must have sensed she needed this time to depressurize and didn’t try to talk to her, comfort, or console her. He folded into her silence and waited there comfortably.

They were almost to Barrett’s house when his phone rang, breaking the silence. Glancing at the display, Barrett hit the speaker so Julia could hear the entire conversation.

“You got some good news for me, Perry?”

There was a slight hesitation. “I’m afraid not. We struck out with the credit card transactions from the dive shop. None of the cards used belonged to Allan Bigsby or any known relatives or associates.”

“Maybe he lifted someone’s card and used it.”

“Already checked that. None of the cards were reported lost or stolen. If it was Bigsby, he used cash.”

Julia remembered seeing documentation in the paperwork sent to Barrett that every inmate is given two hundred dollars at parole. Two hundred dollars is a pretty good chunk of money, but for someone who has nothing it probably goes pretty fast. Allan had already been out on the streets for a month. Taking into account food and bare necessities only, not including shelter (there were hundreds of places in Reno for the homeless to take shelter for free), there was very minimal chance that he had any of that original two hundred dollars left. So the question was: where does an unemployed, freshly paroled convict get cash?

Barrett looked at her and nodded, reading her mind. “All right, I need a team to start canvassing all the homeless hotspots. See if anyone knows or has seen him. Send Stokes and Mendez. Have them go at night—maybe he’s holing up at one of the shelters. And I want you and Miller to check in with all our usual CIs. We don’t know if he’s into dealing or what kind of connections he might have, but at this point we need to exhaust all possibilities.

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