Swerve by Inglath Cooper

Author:Inglath Cooper [Cooper, Inglath]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fence Free Entertainment, LLC
Published: 2018-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

Knox

“I am both worse and better than you thought.”

―Sylvia Plath

KNOX GIVES THE officers on the scene all the information he has about the driver of the Range Rover, the name he believes he goes by and the photo of the license plate.

Randall Macintosh, a uniformed officer he’s known since joining the force, takes down everything Knox tells him. “What was your interest in Madison Willard?” he asks, his head swinging from Knox to Emory Benson.

Knox glances at Emory and then says, “I’m doing some private work for Dr. Benson. Her sister and her sister’s best friend recently disappeared from the Spring Jam Festival. In reviewing the festival’s security footage, I saw a man who appeared to be following them. I believe he might have bought the hat he was wearing at the store where Madison worked. We went there earlier tonight to ask her some questions. She indicated she didn’t know who he was, but I had a feeling she wasn’t telling us everything, so we waited for her to get off work. The suspect picked her up outside the store, and we followed them to her apartment. They had barely gotten inside the building before he was coming back out again, and my phone rang. She could hardly talk, but she was asking for help.”

“You think she told him about your questions, and that’s why he shot her?” Macintosh asks.

“I don’t know what else to think.”

The officer’s phone rings. He answers, listens intently, before clicking off, and then says, “The plate on the Range Rover was stolen. Belongs to a woman in Maryland who reported it a couple of weeks ago.”

“What about the vehicle?” Knox asks.

“Still working on that. We’ve got an APB out for the Range Rover. Chief Parker would like the two of you to come to the station and answer a few more questions.”

Knox blows out a short breath, and says the only thing there is to say, “We’ll head over now.”

~

THEY’RE ON THE Beltway driving toward downtown before either of them speaks.

Strangely, they both start to say something at the same time.

“I should have . . .”

“How could we . . .”

They glance at each other, and Knox can see the horror of what they witnessed in her eyes. “I want to believe we could have prevented that,” he says, his gaze now on the highway before them.

“But how?” she asks quietly. “Why did she lie to us?”

“She didn’t think he could be capable of what we’d told her.”

“But he is. And now he’s back out there. What if he’s already killed my sister and Grace?” She barely manages to choke out the last words, before her head is in her hands, and he can hear her quiet crying.

Without giving himself time to correct the impulse, he reaches out and puts a hand on her arm. “You can’t think that. We don’t have any reason to believe it at this point. The only way to get through this is to take each piece of information we have and follow it through to the best of our ability.

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