Unholy Sins (Saint View Strip Book 2) by Elle Thorpe

Author:Elle Thorpe [Thorpe, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781922760319
Publisher: Elle Thorpe Pty Ltd
Published: 2023-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

19

ZEPH

Sleep didn’t come easy. I tossed and turned, catching a few minutes here and there, dozing on the couch with the TV on to keep me company. All I could think about was Lyric. What we’d done and how much I’d wanted to do more. It was an endless cycle of questions playing over in my head, making sleep nearly impossible. I’d tried watching a movie but couldn’t follow the plotline, and eventually switched to the news station, needing something that didn’t require concentration.

The first report was a murder at the other end of the country. I watched with vague interest; grateful they had moved on from reporting about the ‘serial priest killer.’ The second was a political report that was almost dull enough to send me off to sleep.

“Now onto the suspected abduction of three-year-old, Toby Innes. Police still have no suspects in the case. Toby was last seen at a Saint View park with his mother, Tammie, and her two other children, Daniel and Mathew. Grave fears are held for the young boy’s whereabouts.”

I sat bolt upright, staring at the TV and the image of the little boy, now familiar to me after meeting him and his family at the homeless shelter. “What the fuck?” That had to be a mistake. I’d only seen them a few days ago when I’d given them the money I’d acquired for them. Daniel had been healthy, he and Toby happily playing on the equipment. I pulled out my phone only to realize Tammie had never given me her number. I stood to go to her house, but I didn’t know where she lived either.

I sank back down onto the couch and called the Saint View Police Department, who promptly gave me a canned response about not being able to divulge details of the case. A search party was already working around the clock, and even after I’d explained I was a friend of the family, I’d been told to sit tight and wait for an update.

I got out my phone and googled everything I could find, horrified Toby had been missing for twenty-four hours and this was the first I’d even heard of it.

Tammie had to be going out of her mind.

And there was absolutely nothing I could do to help.

I bounced my leg with nervous energy, sitting on my hands never something I’d been good at. I wanted to go search the streets, look in every alley, every home, until I found him.

This time, I had to be content with letting the police do their jobs.

But there was no chance of sleeping after that. I paced the halls of my house for hours after I gave up trying, but the walking back and forth was no better. Time moved at a snail’s pace, the minute hand on the clock in my living room inching around at a sluggish pace that did nothing to calm the unease that had wrapped itself around me.

Thoughts of Lyric were less unsettling than wondering where Toby was.

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