Thin Ice by Paige Shelton

Author:Paige Shelton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

I grabbed a phone and hoped she’d answer this time.

Sixteen

“Hey, Beth, sorry I missed you earlier. We traced the call that went to your burner,” Detective Majors said.

My hands iced, and I sucked in and held my breath as she paused.

“It was an accident. Some guy thought he’d left the message for his friend,” she continued.

“Are you … sure?”

“Yes. The guy’s in Philadelphia. We sent some uniforms out to talk to him. The police came close to breaking down the door. The guy, about twenty-five, was trying to hide some weed in his nightstand when they barreled in. Scared him to death. Almost. He survived, and when it was all said and done, he was relieved not to be arrested for either the weed or the misdialed call.”

Disappointment plummeted my stomach. “Damn. I hoped it was a lead.”

“Me too.” Another pause. “I’m sorry, Beth.”

“It’s all right. Anything else?”

“I have more to tell you, but before I go into detail, just know that we still don’t have him. We have a few more things to explore, but we don’t have him. Okay?”

“Got it.”

“Okay. Remember the tire tracks?”

“Yes.”

“The tracks at the place where the old brown van was reportedly seen matched the tracks by where we found you. They were a match, Beth. We can be sure of a couple of things now: one, the van must have skidded either as you were jumping out of it or afterwards, but more importantly, we are now sure that that was the same van that was spotted in Weyford. We have that eyewitness, an older woman, nosey, always looking out her window.”

“Thank God for nosey old women.”

“Right, but there’s a little more.” Detective Majors cleared her throat. “I told you that I told your mother about the sightings. She went out to talk to the witness, a woman named Geneva.”

“She emailed me. I know she talked to her.”

Detective Majors hesitated. “Okay. Well, your mom went out two days. Geneva didn’t get a good look at the man who was driving the van, she didn’t let us know that she’d seen the van again the night in between your mom’s visits, but she had. And she did see something else.”

“Mom wrote something about seeing someone walking on the van.”

“Right. That’s what Geneva, the woman, thought she saw. It also appears that when he visited this time, he left something behind.”

“The pink blanket?”

“Yes. She told you.”

“She did. However, is everyone sure it wasn’t there already?”

“Yes, we know we didn’t see it the first time we were out there. We looked all around, including up. Do you remember it or something like it?”

I sighed. “I wish I did.”

“Well, even if you don’t, it’s covered in possible evidence. It’s in the lab right now, a priority.”

“DNA stuff maybe?”

“It’s a good possibility. Bodily fluids, blood…”

My stomach turned, but I ignored it. “Why would it be there though?”

“I have no idea, except that Levi is a sociopath. Maybe leaving it there instead of destroying it was just part of his messed-up head.

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