It's Not Over by Willow Rose

Author:Willow Rose [Rose, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BUOY MEDIA
Published: 2020-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 42

I exchanged a glance with Deputy Perri as we left the elevator. He seemed nervous but focused on the task. I would have preferred to have Brad by my side for this, but he hadn’t returned from Fischer’s apartment yet. I just hoped Deputy Perri was trained enough to keep his cool through all this and not lose his marbles. He seemed like a good guy, though, and I needed him mostly for backup.

I knocked on the first door.

“Police, open up, please.”

The door opened, and a young woman appeared.

“Yes?”

“We’re searching this floor again and need to search your room, please. How many people are in there?”

She opened the door fully so we could see. Two kids were sitting on the beds, their heads bent over their iPads. A man that I assumed was her husband was lying on the king-sized bed, remote in his hand, watching golf on the flat-screen TV mounted on the wall in front of him.

“Anyone come in here in the past two hours?” I asked.

The woman shook her head.

“Do you mind if I take a look?”

“Not at all.”

“You stay out here and make sure no one leaves the floor,” I said, addressed to Perri. I put the gun down by my side so that I wouldn’t scare the children, then stepped inside. I walked to the bathroom, then peeked in.

Nothing there.

I threw a glance across the room and the mess, clothes, and toys scattered all over the floor. The woman saw this and picked up a shirt, then began folding it. “It’s been a long day cooped up in here,” she said, excusing herself.

I smiled. “I have kids. Believe me; I know how it goes.”

I walked back out to Perri.

“Clear.”

He nodded, and we continued to the next room, where a man in his late sixties opened the door.

“Hello, sir, are you staying here alone?”

“Yes. It’s just me. What is this about?”

I held both hands on the gun, and seeing this, he stepped back.

“Am I in trouble?”

“I just need to take a look inside your room; would that be okay?” I asked. “It won’t take long.”

He nodded nervously, then made way for me to enter. I walked in, hurried to the beds that were made, and the bathroom that had been cleaned. I knew that Elena cleaned the odd room numbers. Her partner, Milani, had told me how they divided the floors up. With this in mind, we focused on those rooms that she had been cleaning. I assumed she had been killed while in one of them.

Seeing something she wasn’t supposed to, something that she could tell us, and destroy everything.

“What is this about?” the man asked, coming up behind me, startling me.

“We’re searching all rooms on this floor,” I said, not going into any detail. The news of the murder of a cleaning woman hadn’t been leaked to the press yet, and I wasn’t going to be the one to do that. They’d find out soon enough, and then we’d be looking at headlines along the lines of Hotel Death, or Misery Resort, stuff like that.

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