Don't Tell by Karen Rose

Author:Karen Rose [Rose, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9780755347766
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2004-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Asheville

Thursday, March 15

9 a.m.

Steven met Toni Ross in her office for the morning briefing.

„LUDS came in last night,“ Toni declared wearily.

„Did you find anything in them?“ he asked.

Toni slouched down in her chair, her expression more drawn than the day before. She was aging before his eyes. Steven decided she wouldn’t want to know that.

„Yeah,“ she answered, her voice husky from lack of sleep. „Not so much who Winters called, but who called him.“

Steven pulled up a chair, straddling it. „I give,“ Steven said warily. „Who called our pal?“

„Ben Jolley.“

„No big shock,“ Steven shrugged. „According to Lambert, Jolley and Winters have been buddies a long time.“

„Yeah, but the calls to Winters’s cell phone didn’t start until after he was considered missing.“

Steven grabbed the LUDS and scanned them again, matching them with the key dates and times he held in his head. „Jolley called Winters about an hour after I got back from Sevier County.“ He glanced up at Toni and she nodded. „And again an hour after you told me you were revoking his paid leave. Jolley’s been keeping Winters pretty damn well informed.“ He looked down again. „But Winters was in… Chicago when he received the call.“ He looked up again, puzzled. „He’s in Chicago?“

Toni nodded. „Far as I can tell. Why he’s there I have no idea.“

„You’ve notified the Chicago PD?“

„This morning at about two a.m.“

„Why didn’t you call me?“ Steven demanded.

„Because I knew you’d be dead tired from your trip. I thought I’d let you sleep.“

Steven frowned. „Where’s Jolley now?“

Toni rubbed her hands over her eyes. „In Interrogation 1. Steven, there’s more. You aren’t going to like it. Look at his calls for last Saturday.“

He did… and the cold fist of fear clamped his heart. Every drop of blood in his body seemed to turn to ice. „Oh, God,“ he breathed, then looked up to find Toni’s gaze focused on him. „He was in Raleigh. He was near my kids.“ Abruptly he stood and shoved his fingers through his hair. His heart was racing. „I’ve got to call my Aunt Helen.“

„I did already,“ Ross assured him quietly. „And I called Lennie Farrell. He put twenty-four-hour surveillance on your house and on all of your kids, to, from and during school. He said you were relieved of the assignment if you wanted to get home.“

Steven dropped back in his chair and pressed his fingertips against his eye sockets. „Twenty-four-hour?“

„Yes.“

„I’ll call my aunt and ask her what she wants me to do. For now I’ll get working on how Winters got all the way up to Chicago. Can you ask Lambert to help me check the airlines? Just in case our boy likes to travel in style.“

„What did your aunt say?“

Steven looked up from his laptop where he’d been checking his E-mail in the relative quiet of the sweltering little conference room. Toni stood in the doorway, her expression concerned. „She said what I thought she’d say,“ he answered. „That she and the boys were fine and I could do more good here trying to find the bastard than hovering over them at home for God knew how long.

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