You Can't Run by Hope E. Davis

Author:Hope E. Davis [Davis, Hope E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Naya sighed as she unlocked her front door. Despite them brainstorming and looking over the autopsy for the entire afternoon, nothing more had jumped out at either of them. They were at another dead end. There was no fingerprints, no hairs, the killer had left no traceable evidence behind.

As she stepped in the hall and slid off her shoes, she could hear talking in the living room. She wasn’t sure if it was Vance with Kevin, or maybe Elliot and Derek, but she really wasn’t in the mood to see anyone, her mind was filled with the case and at burn out. Instead of saying hello she slipped upstairs as stealthily as she could, once there she quickly pulled on her running clothes and grabbed her headphones.

Before she headed back down the stairs, she grabbed her work pants and pulled the spare keys she had stopped to make on her way home. One for Elliot, and two additional keys for Trevor and Sebastian, or whoever didn’t have one already. She set them on the table in the hall on her way out.

She stepped silently back out of the door and locked it before anyone could notice she had even been there. Outside, she started up RunTracker and then headed to the left, her only desire was to be away from her home.

For the next hour everything stressing her out, Vance, the case, her parents coming, it all melted away as she pounded the pavement harder and harder. She had her running playlist playing, the pace of her steps syncing with the beat. She was breathing heavy and her heart thumping furiously in her chest, but she didn’t care, it felt great to let all the stress fall off her shoulders temporarily. Nothing mattered in this moment but her feet hitting the ground.

When she got back to her house she began to stretch out on the front porch, only taking the time for what was necessary to prevent injury, she was eager to go straight to her room. She wasn’t sure why, but she really didn’t feel like talking to Kevin or Vance tonight. It was unusual for her.

She quickly and quietly unlocked the door again and stepped back in the house. There were still voices in the living room and for a second Naya tried to remember which cars she had seen out front, to determine if one of the voices was Kevin or not, but ultimately, she decided she didn’t care either way and snuck back upstairs. Afterwards she texted Vance and told him to holler if he needed and that the extra keys for him to hand out were on the table by the door.

When he didn’t respond she worried for a moment, then reassured herself he wasn’t alone and that someone would call her if there was an issue. She slipped into her most comfortable pajamas and laid on her side, facing the wall.

As if she didn’t have enough on her plate lately, one of her old cases haunting her thoughts today and wouldn’t leave.

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