Waiting on Summer by Bella Settarra

Author:Bella Settarra
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance
ISBN: 978-1-941692-55-4
Publisher: Etopia Press
Published: 2015-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Nathan got right back into his car and tore out of the parking lot. On his way back to Summer’s apartment he used his hands-free to call Dominic, just in case he’d had any news about her previous employment or even knew anything about her past relationship. He hadn’t heard anything. Damn! Dominic was concerned when he told him that something was wrong and she was in some kind of danger and promised to meet him at her place as soon as he could. That was some favor for a workaholic like Dominic. He never took time off work unless he really had to.

As he had expected there was no answer at the door, so he gave it a good kick and it opened. He cursed himself for not checking on her security before he had left her here. Her purse sat on the sofa and he quickly checked it. Her wallet was gone. The bedroom door was wide open, and he noticed scuff marks on the doorjamb. Fuck. The blood all over the sheets confirmed his fears.

He went next door, hammering hard with his fist until a middle-aged woman opened up.

“The girl next door. Something’s happened to her. Did you hear anything?” There wasn’t time for niceties.

She looked a little embarrassed. “Well, there was some screaming and banging noises, but I didn’t know if that was her normal behavior. She only just moved in, you see…”

“Did you call the cops?”

“No.” She blushed with shame.

“Does the CCTV work here?”

“Sometimes. There’s an office…” She pointed to what looked like a cupboard door farther down the corridor, and he shot off in that direction, thanking her as he went.

He banged hard on the door she had indicated.

“Nathan?” Dominic’s voice echoed in the corridor while Nathan waited for an answer.

“Down here.”

Dominic ran toward Nathan just as a young guy opened the door in front of him.

“We need to check your CCTV right away. Something happened to the young girl from 104, possibly within the last hour. Did you notice anything?”

The open newspaper in front of the monitor told him the answer to that one, and he pushed past the guy to get into the room.

“Hey, you can’t just…”

“I think you’ll find I just did, kid.”

“Only the cops get access to those tapes,” the guy protested, following Nathan over to the desk.

“You can call them if you want to. Meanwhile, show me the outside of the building on here.” Nathan wasn’t waiting around, and he soon felt Dominic at his elbow.

“She’s been hurt.” Nathan told him without looking up from the screen in front of him.

“I saw the blood.” Looked like Dominic had been in her room too.

The young guy rewound the tape, and they stared at the entrance of the building as he slowly forwarded the tape again.

“Who’s that?” Nathan pointed to the screen where a rusty old pickup had pulled up, the engine still running. A scruffy guy leaned out of the driver’s window while his colleagues ran into the building.

“Never seen them before.

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