The Killing Place -- All Devices by Kate Bold

Author:Kate Bold [Bold, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Stuart drove in silence the entire way to Benson. Although his eyes felt heavy and he wanted more than anything else to turn around and head for home, he kept going. The case propelled him forward, but more than a sense of duty it was the need for approval from the sleeping woman in the seat next to him that kept him going.

Because she wouldn’t stop until she got the two killers. Once a case started, she kept going and going, grinding herself down until she nabbed the perps.

What drove her? The answer for his own motivation was easy. His high school girlfriend had disappeared, presumed murdered, her body never found. That had launched him into the army, where he thought he’d go fight terrorists, the worst of the worst. Doing that would give him a sense of fighting the evil that he couldn’t fight in his own childhood. And he did get that, but he also found himself in a confusing political and social mess in a faraway land where he didn’t speak the language and knew nothing about the culture.

Even so, he’d found comradeship. He had volunteered for his second tour of duty less for the fight and more to help his buddies see it through.

After his second tour of duty, he was emotionally and physically spent, and he returned to the States, mustered out, and suddenly felt lost.

It took less than a week to decide to join law enforcement. The Behavioral Affairs Unit of the FBI was the natural choice. They hunted predators and serial killers, the kind who took his girlfriend from him, and while he knew he’d never solve that mystery, at least he could stop others from becoming victims like Stacy.

Yes, Stacy. The same name as Alexa’s half-adopted kid. He should have never told Alexa that, because she got the same bulldog obsession about that old case as she did about the ones they were assigned. When he found out that she’d been digging into it all he had felt deeply insulted. That incident was the most personal thing of his life, and she had no right to meddle in it.

She had apologized, and he believed the apology, but the resentment lingered as a sort of respectful mistrust. If Alexa Chase thought she could solve a case, nothing else mattered. No one else mattered.

What caused that? He wondered as he glanced at her face, frowning even in sleep as it passed from light to shadow, light to shadow from the highway lights along Interstate 10. Did she have some similar hurt in her past?

If so, she had never shared, and he didn’t dare ask.

A sign by the side of the highway said, “Benson 20 miles.”

Stuart checked his phone again, as he had every fifteen minutes or so since they had set out. He kept it on silent so as not to disturb Alexa’s sleep. He wished he could do more for her than that.

Whitehat had finally come through with the data from Jesse

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