The Ninth Life by E.H. Reinhard

Author:E.H. Reinhard [Reinhard, E. H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 1230001473247
Amazon: B01N2UBG0B
Barnesnoble: B01N2UBG0B
Goodreads: 33405482
Publisher: E.H. Reinhard
Published: 2016-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

She’d called and messaged Larry repeatedly after she killed Phyllis and before she left the body—at least ten times. He never answered or sent a text back. Eve drove Phyllis’s car around aimlessly. She didn’t know what to do. She needed guidance, and Larry wasn’t calling her back. She didn’t know if she should go back to the condo. She didn’t know if she should get the vehicle she’d been driving, her father’s, from inside of the garage next to Billie Webber’s. The clock on the dash read a couple of minutes after four in the morning. She tried Larry again.

The phone rang and rang. Just as she was about to hang up, he answered.

“Hey, I’ll have to be quiet, and this will have to be quick. What’s going on?” he asked.

“A woman was presented to me like you said. I took her life and left her at the lieutenant’s instead.”

“What?” Larry asked.

“Some woman from the condo came to my door. She came inside and then saw some coverage of me on the television. She tried running. I pushed her down the stairs and then gave her to the master.”

“You’re on the news already?” Larry asked.

“Yeah.”

“Hmm. They’re putting it all together. The assistant director came in here a little bit ago and tried to rattle my cage about you and our relationship. I told him to go pound sand. Well, not quite that nicely. I imagine that I’ll be getting some kind of repercussions—they’ll screw with my food, or drug me out, or stick me in a hole for a little while. At minimum, they’ll toss my room in the morning, so I’ll probably be hard to get on the phone tomorrow.”

“Do you think they’ll find where you’ve been hiding the phone?” she asked.

“I doubt it. But either way, this battery is almost dead, and I don’t know how much I want to leave it out to charge. They’ll probably be in and out of here all day tomorrow.”

“I need to know what to do,” she said. “I’m not sure if I should go back to the condo.”

Larry was silent for a moment. “Why did you leave the latest one there instead of the earlier one?”

“Because it was safer. And I couldn’t get you on the phone to discuss it with you. So I just went with my gut.”

“How was it safer?”

“They’re looking for the car in the garage. It was also on the news. I figured leaving it where it was, tucked away in the garage, was the best option. So I’m driving around in the car that belonged to the woman that I left at the lieutenant’s condo.”

“So your father’s car and the one with the dead girl in the trunk are still in the garage?”

“Yes,” Eve said.

“Did they say anything on the news about your father or his car?”

“No,” Eve said.

“Did you leave any ID or anything with the woman that you left at Kane’s place?”

“No,” Eve said.

“Okay. So it will be a bit before they figure out who she is.

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