Forbidden With Me: A With Me In Seattle Universe Novel by Leigh Lennon & Lady Boss Press

Author:Leigh Lennon & Lady Boss Press [Lennon, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781648180347
Publisher: Lady Boss Press, Inc.
Published: 2020-06-21T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Wells

“Can you be any louder, asshole?” I ask Higgie, whose voice must carry through the wall. “She’s on the other side and doesn’t need to hear anymore about this fucked-up case.” My hands rake through my hair because the sleepless nights are getting to me.

He doesn’t reply, but lowers his voice, shuffling through the pictures from last night in comparison to the Strickland murders from so long ago. “You understand the house of the new victims is similar to the Stricklands’ house, right?” Now, his voice is barely an audible whisper when I sit down next to him and look at the similarities. I noticed it last night, how the dining room was off the foyer, and the kitchen was behind it, with a sunroom through a small hallway.

The Mastille family had dark features like the Stricklands, too, all with almost jet black hair and dark brown eyes. The parents were in their forties like Maria and Martin. The boy was twelve, close to Cabe’s age, and the Mastille daughter was sixteen. The similarities were too uncanny and a coincidence like this, almost never is a mere coincidence.

“Did you compare the family from last night to Malia’s family?” I ask, waiting to see if the rookie detective catches it. He’s not lived and breathed this case, as I have all this time.

“Yeah, it’s the first thing I noticed.” He compares a picture of Annie Strickland and Sarah Mastille, side by side. “Down to the length of hair. This person is a sick fuck.” He adds because it’s the truth.

“Did we ever get the arrest warrant they used to get Smith Turner?” I ask. Vanessa has been hush-hush about it, but with Turner about to walk, we’ve been read in.

He hands me the file, wearing a large grin on his face. “It was a partial hair, no root. And the judge never would issue a search warrant. Vanessa used strings to get this processed. But Turner admitted he’d had lunch with Annie that day. They’d stayed friends.”

The pinch on my face is felt throughout my body. The aches, the stress, the out-and-out uncertainty of this case has me experiencing physical pain.

“Don’t you find it odd that the judge didn’t at least clear him?”

He purses his lips together, lacing his fingers behind his head, rocking back in the chair. “Smith Turner is Theodore Turner’s son.”

The name is not lost on me. “Senator Theodore Turner?” I ask.

“Yep, the one and only, and with this new evidence, it’s taken Turner’s lawyers less than twenty-four hours to have the charges dropped for now.”

How’d I miss the prominence of the one person of interest on the case? However, I’d never had a gut feeling about him, and neither had the first detective assigned to the murders. “And why did Vanessa push for this hair to finally be considered?” Which is odd, I know nothing about this piece of evidence, as many times as I’ve combed the file.

The man smirks at me, adding a bemused grin. “Really, you of all people are going to ask this?”

He’s right, and his point is validated.

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