The Delicate Art of Death: A Stacy Martinez Thriller (A Xavier Greene Thriller Book 4) by Ryan McGinnis

Author:Ryan McGinnis [McGinnis, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Intruder

THE NEXT DAY, my trip to the Coroner’s office was a bust. Dr. Travis Brown was still out of town helping a neighboring county and wasn’t expected back till later that day. I had really hoped he would already be back. Now I had no choice but to bide my time until he returned. I decided the logical course of action was to head back to Angela’s place and take it easy. Maybe I would actually get some rest for a change.

As my key entered the lock, Angela’s front door slid open. I froze. I had locked the door when I left this morning; of that much, I was sure. I placed my keys back into my pocket and reached under the back of my jacket, laying my hand on my sidearm. I pushed the door the rest of the way open and stepped through.

“Angela? Angela? Are you here?”

Nothing. I closed the door and stood in the entryway, straining my ears for any out-of-the-ordinary sound. I drew my pistol and started working through each room on the first level, ending in the kitchen. Nothing looked out of place, and the backdoor was still locked. I walked back around to the steps and stopped. For a few moments, I stood there, unmoving, watching for any sign of movement upstairs. When I hadn’t heard or seen anything, I stealthily crept up the steps to the second level, carefully avoiding the fourth step. As I had discovered the first day there, the fourth step creaked loudly when you stepped on it. If there was someone upstairs, the last thing I wanted to do was let them know I was on the way up. Once upstairs, I checked Olive’s and Angela’s rooms. In both cases, the rooms looked untouched. Finally, I approached my room. The door was sitting slightly ajar. When I left this morning, I closed it, like I always did.

I took a deep breath and bounded through the door, leading with my weapon. To the untrained eye, the room looked as normal as the other two, but not to me. My ex-partner Bill Logan had taught me how to set up a room so I would know if anything had been disturbed. Every morning before I left the room, I would place hairs on the top edge of my dresser drawers. If someone else opened the drawer, the hair would fall off. As I checked the dresser, I could tell all four drawers had been opened. Next, I turned my attention to the closet. I threw the door open with my left hand while keeping my pistol trained. Besides my clothing being slid to one side, everything looked like it was still there. Satisfied that the intruder was no longer in the house, I slipped my weapon back under my jacket. What the hell was this? It wasn’t a simple attempted robbery. The rest of the house was untouched. Why was my room, in particular, targeted? Suddenly I got a sinking feeling in my stomach.

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