The Girl from Silent Lake by Leslie Wolfe

Author:Leslie Wolfe [Wolfe, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781838889845
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2021-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Nine

Backyard

Kay woke up and squinted in the bright morning light, wondering how she’d forgotten to pull the bedroom window curtains closed the night before. She’d been so tired she’d paid little attention to the familiar surroundings, letting herself drop on the bed and feeling grateful for the new linens smelling of lavender and cleanliness. The rest of the room looked just as she remembered it, small and crowded with mismatched furniture and all the objects her mother had stored in there after she’d left. The old desk she’d done her homework on throughout her school years still bore the scratches she’d left by accidently writing heavily with a ballpoint pen on a single sheet of paper. Those scratches had earned her a couple of slaps across her face from her father, another memory that invaded her space like a haunting, relentless hydra with thousands of heads.

She blinked a couple of times to get her eyes used to the light and chase the unwanted memories away, then she checked the time and sprung out of bed. Only forty minutes left until Elliot would be there to pick her up; she barely had time for a shower. They were meeting the sheriff and his team to deliver the profile, even if she’d never felt less prepared to do so in her entire career. But she hoped that what little she knew about the unsub could be released into the law enforcement community and provide enough insight as to get the killer identified. And maybe that would mean finding Alison, Hazel, and Matthew still alive.

She’d stayed up the night before until about three, playing with the pieces of the puzzle in her mind, trying to make them fit and draw the picture of the fearless predator who had been one step ahead of them the entire time. Who was this man? How could he be local and have strong ties with the Native community, yet no one seemed to know of him? Was the profile entirely wrong?

She wanted to go into the sheriff’s office earlier than planned, to speak with the motor pool technician. He’d inspected all three vehicles and had taken the Jeep’s engine apart piece by piece, trying to find out how those vehicles had been disabled. He didn’t have a definitive answer yet, but she had a few questions she wanted to ask him anyway.

Distant noise grew closer as she filled up the coffee maker, a somewhat familiar buzzing. She was about to dismiss it, thinking it must’ve been the neighbor, when she looked out the window and saw Elliot riding on the lawn tractor, cutting large swaths through the overgrown greenery. She groaned, wondering in passing how he’d opened the garage door, and thinking she must’ve seemed pitiful and hopeless in the man’s eyes, enough to earn her a mercy lawn mowing at the crack of dawn. He’d been at it for a while; the front lawn was almost entirely done, only the occasional heap of yellowed, mulched clippings, clumped together, was left behind.

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