A Billion Echoes by Patterson Janci

Author:Patterson, Janci
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Garden Ninja Books
Published: 2018-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

I took off an hour early from work Friday afternoon, and went down to the Laundromat with three bags of clothes. Twenty minutes later, Damon and I sat in a car parked in the lot across the street from the Sunnyvale police station, him in a gray t-shirt and gym shorts, me in a sharp Armani business suit and the face of Lee's direct supervisor, both of us eating a bag of Chex Mix and listening to a metal station.

"This isn't music," I said. "It's noise."

"I knew it," Damon said. "You're secretly sixty-five. No one born in the last forty years calls this noise."

I smiled. "It is noise, though. The singer totally knows it. No one does that unintelligible screechy thing on accident. Isn't that the appeal?"

Damon grunted.

I crossed my arms. After my talk with Kalif, I'd been all prepped to have to tell Damon that obviously we were just friends, and that's how it was going to stay. But from the moment I'd arrived at his apartment, Damon had been oddly chill and strangely respectful. I wasn't sure what to make of it, but I also didn't know how to lay out the parameters of our relationship for him without making things awkward again.

I leaned back in my seat and put my feet on the dash, blocking my view to the clock. It was four-thirty, about the time Lee usually left to head home so he could beat the traffic. Damon had run the profile on his boss, who had a dental appointment today, which he'd gone to straight from a briefing meeting with the Chief of Police.

I picked some of the rye chips out of the Chex Mix, and Damon swatted my hand. "No picking," he said. "It's cheating. Eat it by the handful and take what you get."

I popped my ill-gotten rye chips into my mouth and brushed off my hands. Bits of dusty flavoring settled down over my black men's slacks. "I hope Lee's boss likes snack foods," I said. "Because I smell like them now."

Damon reached under the seat and handed me a bottle of air freshener. I gave it a tiny spritz, to see what it smelled like.

Damon snatched it out of my hand. "Not in the car! We'll suffocate." He cracked the window slightly.

The spray sifted down over my clothing, reeking of lavender. "Great," I said. "Now I smell like a grandmother's bathroom."

"Hey," Damon said. "It fits with your taste in music."

"If only I were pretending to be me."

The doors to the building finally opened, and Officer Lee came striding out, looking down at his phone in his hand. He was probably texting his wife, telling her he was on his way home. I climbed out of the car and strode toward him without being observed.

Time to put a little extra pressure on Lee, make him feel like the case was bigger than just two people with a video tape and a crazy story.

Lee saw me coming across the parking lot. I rubbed

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