The Clearing Rain by Suzanne Cass

Author:Suzanne Cass
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

TUESDAY MORNINGS WERE sometimes hard, but this Tuesday was extra challenging, knowing that she was no longer involved in the murder case. Both she and Nico had taken the day off work yesterday, on orders from Shadbolt, who said they needed a day or two to get their heads on straight. But Nico especially, needed to be doing something to stop him from going bonkers, as he put it. So Shadbolt had relented and let them both come back to the station, as long as they didn’t work on the serial killer case.

Lacey sat at her desk staring at the pile of paperwork, but not really seeing it, brooding and thoughtful. The shared office normally had at least one other person skulking behind one of the four available desks, but today it was conspicuously empty. Linc remained a part of the serial killer task force, and was currently down in Strahan engaged in the search, which left her without a partner for the near future. And left her handling the paperwork for him and the others like Hickey and Gorman, who were staked out down in Strahan.

They hadn’t managed to find Serge—it was like he’d vanished in a puff of magician’s smoke—but they had made an interesting discovery late yesterday afternoon. One of the search teams had found an abandoned campsite, deep in the forest. It’d been a tip-off from one of the locals, Mal, who’d been the instigator of the vigilante group, which had been summarily shut down by Sergeant Jackson. Mal’s property bordered the national park, and he said he’d heard unusual noises late one night. The campsite was hard to spot, but the tracker they’d employed had detected the subtle signs Lacey could never dream of learning how to discern. By all reports it’d been cleaned up so that hardly a trace remained. A forensic team was going over the site this morning, and Pederson had also called in a sniffer dog to see if they could uncover anything else of interest. Nico had already decided that the campsite had probably belonged to Serge, the marks of him were all over it. Pederson tended to agree, although he wanted to wait for concrete evidence before he was certain. The search teams must’ve spooked Serge, or whoever was using the camp, however, and he’d moved on; was now like a whisper on the wind. Lacey wondered where he’d turn up next. One thing was for certain, Nico was convinced that Serge was long gone from Strahan. Pederson was harder to persuade on that fact, and Nico’s mouth had twisted bitterly when he refused to stop the search for Serge.

Her stomach roiled, and she snatched another dry biscuit from the packet on her desk. Nibbling on it until the queasiness settled once more, she stared morosely out the window. At least their Sunday night hadn’t been a complete fail. The casserole had remained uneaten in the refrigerator that night, because after their epic shower sex, they’d gone to bed and made love again rather than eat.

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