Sara's Game by Ernie Lindsey

Author:Ernie Lindsey [Lindsey, Ernie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-09-28T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

DJ

DJ and Barker stood in front of the Rutherford home, watching the paramedics load the young woman into the back of the ambulance. They drove away with instructions for the doctor to call as soon as she was stable and coherent. DJ had tried to talk to her while Barker was inside, tried to ask her what had happened, but her delusional ramblings had made no sense.

He said, “I don’t know, Barker. She was out of it. Kept saying something about how this woman told her she’d be okay.”

“A woman?”

“She kept repeating, ‘She said I’d be okay.’ Over and over. She said she’d be okay. Nothing about a he. Nothing about Rutherford.”

“And?”

“And what, Barker? You don’t find that strange?”

“That I do, cowboy, but from the looks of her, I doubt that girl could tell you what day it is.”

“Doesn’t make any sense, that’s all I’m saying. You find anything in the house?”

“Possible signs of forced entry on the back door. Single chair down in the basement. I figure that’s where she was being kept. Managed to get herself loose. Other than that, the place is clean. Nothing like a weird torture room or crazy sex toys. From the looks of it, dude has more money to spend than he has sense. You should’ve seen the size of the boob tube.”

“Forced entry on the back door, you said?”

“Wasn’t much. Closed. Not locked, but it didn’t look like somebody beat it in with a sledgehammer. More like it’d been pried open with a screwdriver. Figured Dumbo locked himself out at some point.”

DJ looked at the house. Something didn’t feel right. “What’re we missing here? Where’s the disconnect?”

“The disconnect?”

“We got a suspect in one kidnapping keeping another vic in his basement,” DJ said. He pinched his earlobe, thinking. “But then there’s a possible forced entry and the girl mentioning a she.”

Barker studied him. “I ain’t following.”

“What if she was planted here?”

Barker laughed. “God almighty, DJ. And you say I come up with some cockamamie ideas.”

“I’m assuming you’ve heard of the word ‘hypothetical’ before.”

“Look here, cowboy, when I say explore the possibilities, I don’t mean for you to put Elmore Leonard to shame with your plotlines.”

“Then what’s your theory?”

“Whoever she is,” Barker said, “she partnered up with Rutherford. Conned our vic with some sweet words, brought her back here.”

“Still doesn’t feel right.”

“Occam’s Razor. Simplest explanation.”

DJ put his hands behind his head. “Say we disregard my left field idea, make it a non-factor for now...if Rutherford and this mystery woman are working together, there has to be at least a third person, maybe more, right? He was at the LightPulse office until ten o’clock, and the Winthrop kids went missing around nine at separate locations. So while he was at the office, the rest of his team was out doing his dirty work.”

“Now you’re getting somewhere. And who knows how long that poor gal was down in the basement.”

“But why, though? We don’t have a ransom note. We’ve got a random woman in her twenties and three kids of a coworker.

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