Half-Blood by Shannon West

Author:Shannon West [West, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Painted Hearts Publishing
Published: 2023-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

The weather was interminably dreary outside my cubicle window, though typical of late fall days in Atlanta, with a cool wind blowing out of the west, bringing rain to glisten on the wet streets, snarl traffic and make everything dismal.

I was shocked on that Monday morning when two men identifying themselves as detectives came to my office saying they needed to ask me some questions about Dylan’s disappearance. They said they were from the Major Crimes Division of the police department. When I told them I had already been interviewed by Homicide detectives, they seemed surprised and said no one from the police had been to see me except them. They said there were no “Homicide” detectives, but only the Major Crime Division and Homicide was part of that. They said I was misled and asked for names and descriptions. When I gave them, they said that no one like that worked for the police in any capacity.

They didn’t seem to know what to make of it and neither did I. I gave them the card Will Logan had given me and they said they’d look into it. They asked me a lot of questions but not nearly as many as Logan and Conway had done. They didn’t seem to suspect me, though they said they would check my alibi. They said if it checked out, I’d be in the clear.

Totally different from Logan and Conway, who had interrogated me like I was a Russian spy and they were the CIA. They could have been from some other agency, but who? And why?

I didn’t hear anything else from either Detectives Logan and Conway or the other detectives from Fulton County for the next few days, though I wanted to hear news of Dylan and yet dreaded it at the same time. There was nothing though, and the reports on the news began to wane. Instead, they were now all about the police being consumed with looking for some kind of serial killer who was targeting homeless people around Atlanta.

The Golden Pets Foods project was done and approved, and the company declared itself happy with my work, which I thought was probably something of a disappointment to Mr. Atkins. I was assigned another project and Suzanne started plans for a Thanksgiving potluck luncheon in the breakroom.

In other words, life went on as usual, as it always tends to do, no matter how unready we might be for it. It didn’t seem right for everything to go on like nothing had happened if it turned out to be true that Dylan was really gone.

Suzanne and some of my coworkers I was friendly with had seen Dylan’s picture on the news and heard about his disappearance. They expressed their shock and concern and asked if I knew anything about the investigation. I lied and said I had no idea. They already knew the police had questioned me. Were still questioning me, because they’d come to my workplace. I didn’t say anything about the other two detectives, or whatever they were, the men who had questioned me at my home.

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