Unknown Victim by Kay Hadashi

Author:Kay Hadashi [Hadashi, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

As far as Gina was concerned, she still had another hour to sleep when her phone rang with a call from Ana on Saturday morning.

“If it wasn’t illegal, I’d kill you for calling so early,” she told her sister.

“Too much to drink last night?”

“Barely had anything. You do realize there are five time zones between us, right?”

“Wasn’t my idea for you to move to the other side of the world. Mom’s miffed at you again, by the way.”

“Again or still?”

“A little of both. Why didn’t you call her yesterday?”

“I’ve called her every day since coming here. I don’t get a day off?” Gina asked.

“It was New Year’s Eve. She didn’t hear from her second favorite daughter.”

“She’ll live. How’s Dad?”

“Same ol’. Talking about retiring again.”

“He never will. Maybe on paper, but not from driving beats. Put him on.”

She waited while Ana went to the basement, following her footsteps in the family home by listening to squeaks in floorboards and doors shutting here and there.

“Hey Dad.” Gina caught up with her father’s news, which wasn’t much more than busting the oldest Russo son for drunk driving. “Know anything about Rolexes?”

“You’re earning so much with that job that you can afford a Rolex?”

“Not hardly. I came across one the other day. I’m still trying to figure out why someone loses a nice watch and not come back to look for it.”

“Because it didn’t belong to whoever lost it. Where was it?”

“In the grass by the front porch steps. It seemed like it had been sitting up in the grass and not down by the dirt. It wasn’t dirty or damaged at all, more like it had just fallen off someone’s wrist.”

“What kind of band?” he asked.

“Gold-colored metal, with a fold-over style clasp.”

“Was the clasp open or closed?”

“Open, but not working right. That’s what gives me the idea it fell off someone’s wrist.”

“Gina, a watchmaker wouldn’t put a cheap band on an expensive watch, one that would pop open accidently. Take a look at the brand name of the band. Is it Rolex branded?”

“I don’t have it. I turned it over to the police.”

“You called the police to report a found watch?” he asked.

Gina still hadn’t let on to her family about finding a dead body on her porch earlier in the week. “They were already here about something else. I got pictures of it, though. I’ll try to read whatever is on it later. Anything else I can do?”

“I’d act it out. If you still had it, you could wear it on a wrist and walk around the front proch to see if it snagged on anything. Try to figure out what someone had been doing when they lost it. Maybe that could give you some insight of who the owner might be.”

She made a mental note of his suggestion. “How’s Mom? Ana keeps saying stuff about Mom being pissed at me.”

“Not so much now. You could’ve given her a little more lead time that you were leaving town.”

“I told her the same day I took the job, which was the day after I was offered it.

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