Spiraled by Elliot Kendra

Author:Elliot, Kendra [Elliot, Kendra]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2015-06-02T05:00:00+00:00

21

He’d been following her for forty-eight hours and knew her name was Ava.

The woman had first appeared on his radar as the police swarmed around Justin Yoder’s car in the quiet subdivision close to the mall. He’d been surprised it’d taken them that long to find it. He’d thought the neighbors in that senior living neighborhood would quickly report a strange vehicle. Maybe people were more tolerant than he. A few times he’d left the spot from where he’d watched the car to make food and coffee runs, expecting to return and have missed the show. But the police had finally turned up. He’d watched as the patrol unit pulled up behind the car parked on the street. One officer had stayed in the car, running the plates he assumed, while the other peered in the windows.

He’d seen the cops’ body language change as they realized what they’d found. Movements were faster, chins jerked up, and a sense of urgency appeared in their actions in stark contrast to the measured caution of their arrival. More units had arrived within minutes.

But it’d been the investigators out of uniform who had caught his attention. When they’d arrived, the other police had deferred to them immediately. Two men and a woman. The two men had explored the car, careful of what they’d touched. As she should, the woman had stayed back a bit, almost trying to appear inconspicuous, but he’d noticed that both men kept speaking to her and pointing out aspects of the car. She clearly carried some authority and the thought made his skin crawl.

He’d watched her every move—something about her seeming very familiar.

She had a tendency to tuck her hair behind her ear and crack her knuckles, and it’d driven him crazy that he couldn’t see her eye color at this distance.

After they’d all looked in the trunk of Justin’s car, she’d turned, giving him a direct view of her face through his binoculars.

He did know her.

Ava had been at the Rivertown Mall. He’d offered to help her with the bleeding girl.

Her eyes had been dark blue.

Relief had swept through him as he realized she was with the police because she was a witness. The men were simply being polite in their deference to her; she wasn’t in law enforcement.

But something compelled him to follow her, and his misconception had lasted less than a day. Witnesses didn’t continually go in and out of the police command center. After he’d seen her enter and leave many times, he started to wonder. She didn’t carry a gun or wear a badge, but she moved and conversed like someone in charge. An inappropriate role for her. He’d called a friend to check the plates on her car and discovered it belonged to the federal government.

“Can you be more specific?” he’d asked his friend as a loud buzz started in his brain at the phrase federal government.

“I’d guess the car belongs to the Justice Department or the FBI,” his friend had answered.

“How do you know?” he whispered.

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