Don't Forget Me (Levi Kant) by B.C. Schiller

Author:B.C. Schiller [Schiller, B.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

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The next morning, Levi waited in front of Kaffeehaus Stein on the Schottenring and looked at his watch. Olivia was more than half an hour late. He paced the pavement nervously, repeatedly trying her mobile but each time it went straight to voicemail. Finally, tired of waiting, he went into the Kaffeehaus. An hour and four espressos later he still hadn’t heard from Olivia, so he set off for the police academy, hoping that her father was all right. She’d seemed so eager to meet when they spoke last night that he could only assume something serious had happened to keep her away.

Only a handful of people were present in the main lecture hall of the police academy when Levi went to stand at the lectern. It was his last lecture before the summer holidays and most of his students had started their internships with various police departments. The few students still around were specialising in outdoor forensics and Levi would be talking about it for the next two hours. He checked his mobile numerous times while he was speaking and projecting photos of different crime scenes onto the big screen, but still no news from Olivia.

Afterwards he dialled the number of the clinic.

‘Can I please speak to Frau Doctor Hofmann?’

‘One moment, I’ll put you through,’ the friendly voice at the switchboard said. Levi felt disappointment spread through him. Had Olivia really forgotten their meeting?

‘I’m sorry, Doctor Hofmann isn’t answering.’

‘Is she not in today?’ Levi asked.

‘Oh yes, she was due in at two o’clock this afternoon. Wait, I’ll try to find her on a different number.’ He waited several minutes, then the voice of the receptionist came again: ‘Strange, but nobody knows where she is.’

‘Have you seen her at all today?’

‘No.’ The woman stopped to think. ‘One moment, I’ll just see if her bicycle’s outside.’ After a short time, she came back. ‘No, her bike’s not here either.’

‘Thank you,’ Levi said and ended the call. He tried ringing Olivia in her office but again he only got the answer machine. He was growing increasingly concerned and wasn’t sure what to do, until he remembered a former colleague who might be able to help.

‘Schmidt, it’s Levi Kant here,’ he said when the man answered. Schmidt ran the police radio system and Levi had once covered for him during an illegal surveillance. Schmidt owed him one.

‘I need to track a mobile. ASAP, if possible.’

‘No problem. What’s the number?’ Schmidt asked.

While they waited for the information to come through, Schmidt asked Levi how he was.

‘Great. This lecturing job is just perfect for me,’ Levi said.

‘I never would have thought so. You loved your department heart and soul, didn’t you?’

‘Well, when the heart isn’t in it any more, the soul doesn’t have much fun either.’ Levi was alluding to his injury. ‘Have you got a signal?’ he said, changing the subject.

‘Yes, from near the hospital on the ring road. The mobile presumably is in the hospital there.’

‘Thanks, mate. We’re quits now,’ Levi said to his ex-colleague, ending the call.

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