Cold Fingers by Amy Spector

Author:Amy Spector
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

The body disappeared from Lackington Hughes Memorial Hospital sometime Thursday evening after seven p.m. There have been no arrests so far, but police say that they are following leads and expect to have made an arrest by this time next week.

I had the urge to throw up. It didn’t matter how many times I had told myself I was out of my mind, since I had heard the report on the drive in that morning, I could not shake the feeling that Vic was somehow connected to the missing body.

Something had been going down the night I had seen him arguing in the hallway, and he had to have paid that guy for a reason. Then he had lied about when he had left the hospital that night.

“Are you sure you’re okay, boss?”

I waved Grant’s question away and checked the clock.

I needed to talk to someone, and even if Grant was probably the worst choice ever, Jessie wasn’t here, and Evan… Well, Evan was just someone you naturally felt the urge to protect from ugly things.

At the end of the night, we did our normal quick cleanup of the shop. I was still counting down the cash drawer when I told Evan that he could head out. That left only Grant and myself. He had started chattering the moment the last customer left the shop and we had locked the doors behind them, and hadn’t stopped.

“Then the fake blood bucket gets pushed over. I’m talking a five-gallon bucket that should have taken us through next weekend. So, instead of getting to chase the kids with a rubber pitchfork, I had to run out to buy hundreds of dollars of hair gel, Astroglide and food coloring, because that works better than corn syrup, but you can’t get it near your eyes, mouth, nose and stuff. None of the face holes, you know? Anyway, the eyes of the lady ringing me—”

“Grant, could you please shut the fuck up for a minute,” I snapped, interrupting him and he stopped instantly. “I’m sorry.”

“Nah, that’s okay,” he said, going back to cleaning the glass displays. I watched him for a few minutes before locking the cash drawer in the safe and preparing the bank deposit for the day’s sales.

Eventually, I couldn’t hold it in any longer. “I think the guy I have been seeing might have something to do with the body that went missing.”

Grant froze where he was—squatted to wipe at the front counter’s glass. “The one from the cemetery?”

Fuck. I had nearly forgotten about that one.

“Maybe?” I didn’t know. “Maybe that one, but I think the one that disappeared from the hospital.”

I told him about the conversation I had overheard, about the envelope being exchanged and Vic’s lie about when he had left the hospital that night.

“I’ve been trying to talk myself into believing it was nothing, or that maybe it was about drugs, like Vic was buying drugs from this guy.” I let out a breath. “Then I heard the news report of the missing body, and I can’t help but think it’s all somehow related.

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