Edge of Delirium by Trevor Scott

Author:Trevor Scott [Scott, Trevor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calabria Publishing
Published: 2024-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

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Once they got away from Mary’s house, Paul called Detective Brad Hedstrom and told him he had gone to Mary’s place, looked through the windows, and saw that the place had been trashed. Brad assured Paul that it had not been the EPD who did that. They would get up there as soon as they sent Mary’s truck to the department for processing.

“Did you find anything in Mary’s purse?” Paul asked Brad over the phone.

“Negative. It’s my guess that she was coming to visit you when someone nabbed her.”

“You mean the men in the van who tried to kill me,” Paul reminded the detective.

“Exactly. You didn’t see her in the van, right?”

“It was dark. All I saw was flashes coming from the front passenger seat and through the sliding door.” But he guessed Mary could have been in there. Which chilled him now, thinking he could have hit Mary with one of his shots. “When they kidnapped me, they used an incapacitating agent of some type. So they could have injected Mary long before I showed up at my house. She could have been passed out in the back of the van.”

Paul drove through downtown Eugene and turned to the west toward the Delta Ponds area where Flora lived.

“You wouldn’t happen to know anything about Mary’s next of kin,” Brad said.

“No. We didn’t get into that,” Paul lied. “She did mention something about her mother working at a California vineyard, though.” There had to be a thousand vineyards in California, so that would keep them busy. But they also had to have Mary’s cell records by now, so they could narrow down their search from Mary’s contact list.

The two of them agreed to keep each other in the loop, but Paul knew that would probably be a one-way exchange. He would feed the detective only marginally important information, and Brad Hedstrom would give Paul diddly squat. They hung up about the time Paul passed the Valley River Center, a major mall in the Eugene area.

“Are we going back to my place?” Flora asked.

“Yeah. I have some computer work for you.”

When they got back to Flora’s apartment, Paul put her to work finding the location of Mary’s father and mother. She found the mother in about five minutes, staying at an old farmhouse in the Sonoma Valley. While she worked on finding Mary’s father in Costa Rica, he got onto a couple of social media sites on Flora’s iPad. First he went through every photo on Mary’s pages. Then he shifted to Dalia’s profile images, combing her photos as well. He found a number of images of Dalia with her brother in the Army. But not one photo of her brother from Phoenix. That was strange.

Paul pulled out the old image of Dalia with the younger man and saw that there was no way he had grown into the soldier. So, the only image he had of Dalia’s second brother was the one he’d taken from Mary’s house.

Now he was pissed off at himself for taking certain things for granted.

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