Justice for Sara by Erica Spindler

Author:Erica Spindler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary Women, Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Thrillers, General
ISBN: 9781250012524
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-08-05T17:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Wednesday, June 12

1:45 A.M.

Luke’s cell phone went off at the same moment someone pounded on his door. He answered the cell and made his way to the front of the house. “Tanner.”

“Luke, it’s Cindy. There’s been some trouble at the McCall—”

He flipped on the porch light and peered out. Kat, looking like a crazy woman.

“Mrs. Bell called it in. A woman screamed—”

He opened the door and Kat fell into his arms.

“Send Reni,” he said. “Keep me posted.”

He scooped Kat up and carried her to the living room. He sat on the couch with her cradled in his lap. She curled into him, sobbing and shaking.

“I’ve got you,” he said softly, rocking slightly. “When you’re ready, tell me what happened.”

She nodded and pressed her face into his shoulder. The sobs stopped first, the trembling minutes later. Still she clung to him, not speaking, not easing her hold on him.

Finally, her grip lessened. She whispered something he couldn’t make out.

“What, sweetheart? I can’t hear you.”

She tipped her face up to his. “Danny. He was there.”

“Where? Jeremy’s?”

“The cottage. I went back. I shouldn’t have … I had this feeling…” She drew in a shaky breath. “He was there. At the front gate, staring at the cottage. Everyone else was gone.”

And she got out of the car. The very worst thing she could have done.

Luke silently counted to ten. Let her talk, he told himself. The same as he would any victim. Pretend she wasn’t someone he was growing to care for.

He couldn’t. Not completely. “Perpetrators often return to the scene of their crime. To relive it. To get off on it again.” He shifted so he could look directly into her eyes. “Promise me you won’t do anything so stupid again?”

She nodded. Horror crept into her eyes. “I realized he was … the one. And then I was so scared. I was afraid he was going to kill me, too.”

“Wait a minute, what do you mean, kill you, too?”

For several moments, she didn’t speak. When she did, her voice was hushed. “I think he killed Sara. He was talking about that night.”

“I need to get my notebook. Are you okay now?”

When she nodded, he eased her off his lap and onto the couch beside him. She shivered. He grabbed the afghan and wrapped it around her shoulders. “Can I get you anything? Water, soft drink?”

“I’m fine.”

But she clearly wasn’t. She looked lost, sitting there, being swallowed up by the overstuffed couch and bulky afghan. “Okay, I’ll be right back.”

He returned a minute later to find she hadn’t moved. He’d brought her a glass of water anyway and set it on the coffee table in front of her. She didn’t seem to notice it was there.

“Ready?” he asked. She nodded. “You said you were afraid he would kill you. That you now believe he killed Sara. Tell me why, Kat. Don’t leave anything out.”

“He said … he said he couldn’t get the picture of her out of his head.”

“What picture?”

“Dead. On the foyer floor.

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