Watch Her Sleep: A completely gripping crime thriller packed with suspense (Detective Charlotte Winters Book 3) by L.T. Vargus & Tim McBain

Author:L.T. Vargus & Tim McBain [Vargus, L.T. & McBain, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781838888367
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2021-03-18T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Three

The car rolled down the street, but Charlie could have sworn the entire world had stood still for the split second after Zoe spoke. Charlie stared at her, still not sure she was comprehending what Zoe had said.

“Heidi is married to Will?” Charlie repeated.

Zoe nodded.

“Will Crawford?” Charlie said, just to be sure she wasn’t thinking of some other Will.

Zoe nodded again.

“The Will Crawford I kinda sorta dated for a hot minute last year?”

“That’s the only Will Crawford I know,” Zoe said.

“How did you not tell me this before?” Charlie asked. “A friendly heads-up would have been nice. Like, ‘Hey, Chuck, you know the guy you’re dating is married, right?’”

“Well, to be fair, they’re separated. I guess I should have mentioned that.” Zoe shrugged. “But I just assumed he told you. Guess not.”

Charlie shook her head.

“I’m going to kill him.”

“Well, do me a favor and don’t mention that I’m the one who told you?” Zoe said, pursing her lips.

“I won’t have to. His wife did all the heavy lifting for you.” Charlie banged the back of her skull against the head rest.

Zoe slowed in front of Charlie’s office.

“Do you need to run in and grab anything before we head out?”

“No,” Charlie said. “I’m ready.”

As they rode over to the west side of the island, Charlie digested the notion that Will Crawford had been married—was still married—to Heidi Oliver. But as the houses grew more sparse and the landscape on either side of the car shifted from neat rectangles of green lawn to alternating swatches of farmland and wilderness, Charlie pushed the interaction with Heidi from her mind. She had work to do.

They zigged and zagged across the winding, unpaved back roads, focusing on the streets closest to shore. Charlie craned her neck, scanning the surroundings for any white cinder block structures. Zoe drove slowly, but the foliage on the shoulder was overgrown in many places, making the task that much more tedious.

Hitting a dead end just past the crumbling copper-smelting plant, Zoe backtracked to the last intersection. They’d gone half a mile down Beedle Creek Road when Zoe pointed out a cinder block garage on someone’s property.

“It’s not white, though,” Charlie said, studying the mural of jaunty sunflowers that crawled up the sides. “I’d think Olivia would have remembered if it had a mural painted on it. Besides, it looks too well-kept. She described something run-down. Maybe even abandoned.”

They drove on, resuming their search, and eventually Charlie couldn’t help but bring the conversation back to the incident at the consignment shop.

“I still can’t believe Heidi Oliver threw me out of her store. I mean, things with her and Will must have really gone bad for her to react like that.”

“Well there’s that… and also the fact that you were like mortal enemies in high school.”

“What?” Charlie turned in her seat to stare at Zoe. “We were not.”

“You seriously don’t remember?”

“Remember what?”

“There was a whole boatload of drama because Heidi dated Mark Zalenski for years, but then he started going out with Allie, and Heidi’s take was that Allie had stolen him from her or something.

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