Ritual Dreams: Dreams and Reality, #15 by Hadena James

Author:Hadena James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: aislinn cain, sctu, serial killer thriller
Publisher: Hadena James
Published: 2019-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

Ten

“Let’s go!” Gabriel was shouting through my hotel room door.

“Go where?” I shouted back, instantly awake.

“Open the door and I’ll tell you,” he responded. I pulled my boots on and picked up my overshirt, still pulling the shoulder holster over my arms.

“Where?” I asked, nearly breathless. It appeared I was the last to join the party, everyone else was in the hallway still pulling themselves together. Gabriel had his boots on, his Marshals’ hat under his arm, and his pants weren’t yet zipped or buttoned.

“We just had a 911 call, a kid walked into his house after getting sick at a friend’s house and found his parents duct taped to chairs and a woman in the kitchen with her. He went upstairs and got his little sister, and after she ran out to his friend’s mom’s car, he shouted for someone to call the police and ran to the car as well. But according to him, he walked in, realized something was wrong, got his sister out and then yelled for help only to try to lure the killer away. She didn’t hear him come in and get the little girl. The neighbor is a deputy with the Sheriff’s department. He went in and took off the duct tape and noticed a bottle of sulfuric acid drain cleaner on the kitchen table. He reported it with the 911 call, they called us.”

“Where’s the woman who was in the house?” I asked, moving quickly to the SUV.

“She got away, but the deputy’s wife followed her and got pictures of her car, I understand there’s a few pictures of her, but the face is blurry because both women were running.” Lucas answered.

“Oh thank God, I hate investigating, now we can just go kick down someone’s door.” I said getting into the back seat.

“It may not have been God that helped,” Fiona commented, tying her shoes.

“Then I’ll save my thanks for the universe.” I answered dryly, putting my seatbelt on. Xavier crawled into the third-row seating behind Fiona and me. It didn’t take us long to be on our way.

The neighborhood was nice. It was very much a two-car garage and white picket fence type of neighborhood. Not the kind you expect to have murders committed in. Especially not gruesome murders.

Except the homeowners were alive. There hadn’t been a murder. We had clues. We might have an identity. Wrapping up the case was assured now, it was just a matter of time. There were lots of flashing lights and people milling around one of the houses. Gabriel parked across the street and we all got out.

I milled around, ignoring the survivors and their children. I wasn’t a people person on the best of days. A few cops spoke to me, but most kept their distance. Kimberly came up to me after she had finished whatever she had been doing when we arrived.

“What do you think?”

“I think I was right.”

“Isn’t it a little early for an ‘I told you so’?”

“Never,” I answered quietly. “And it really wasn’t an ‘I told you so,’ it was an ‘I told the FBI’ moment.

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