Vanished by Victor Methos

Author:Victor Methos [Methos, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-01-27T14:30:00+00:00

When Baudin awoke the next day, he found that he’d slept on the recliner in the front room. Heather woke him after she showered.

“Sorry,” he said. “Musta passed out from exhaustion.”

“Exhaustion or beer?”

“Both.” He sat up, the room still spinning. “Get ready, would you? I’m dropping you off with Anna at Kyle’s house.”

“Why?”

“Just got some things I gotta catch up on.”

“Well, I was gonna hang out with Gina and them at the mall.”

He shook his head, afraid that if he stood he might fall over. He tried it anyway and got to his feet without wobbling. The effects of the alcohol must’ve long since faded, and he wondered what was causing his vertigo. “I don’t know who Gina is.”

“She’s fine, Daddy. Just let me go to the mall, and I’ll call you after. Gina’s mom is gonna drive us. What could happen with her there?”

He watched his daughter, the way she looked up at him with her doe eyes… the eyes that were exactly like her mother’s and reminded him every day of what had happened. “Okay, sweetie. I’m trusting you, though.”

“Thanks, Daddy,” she said, leaning in and kissing him on the cheek.

Baudin went out and met Gina’s mom when she came to pick up Heather. She was about the same age as he was, and attractive. She smiled widely and flicked her hair at one point. Her clothing was something a twenty-year-old would wear, and she was certainly attempting to appear as young as her daughter.

“I’ll bring them back safe, I promise,” she said.

“Thanks.”

Baudin watched them drive off, then got into his car and called Kyle.

They agreed to meet by the Motel 6. Baudin got there first and waited by the sign, smoking and watching the cars pass. Even this early in the morning, a few girls were out on the corners. One got into a Cadillac, and they drove away only to return ten minutes later and dump the girl out on the corner again.

Dixon parked near the entrance and walked over. He was wearing jeans and a T-shirt but had his badge clipped to his belt.

“Lose the badge,” Baudin said. “It makes them nervous.”

He slid it into his back pocket. “So who we meeting?”

Baudin motioned with his head. Dixon followed him over to Candi’s room, and he knocked. Candi answered wearing a robe that was open in front, revealing her breasts. Baudin reached in and closed the robe.

Her eyes were bloodshot, and her face drooped as though she couldn’t flex the muscles in it.

Baudin slipped in, Dixon behind him. They stood in the center of the room and Baudin scanned the place. He saw what he was looking for on the nightstand: a spoon and hypodermic needle.

“I need to know where Dazzle lives,” Baudin said.

“She ain’t here,” Candi mumbled. She collapsed onto the bed, her eyes rolling back before she snapped her head back then forward. “She gone.”

“Gone?” Baudin said, approaching her. “What do you mean, ‘gone’?”

“She heard some cop was askin’ for her and she gone. She don’t want… she don’t want no trouble.

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