The Body Keeper by Anne Frasier

Author:Anne Frasier [Frasier, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542040242
Published: 2019-06-03T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

Four thirty and already dark when Jude got a text from Uriah asking how the meeting had gone, letting her know he was back at Homicide. She was tired, but she wanted to catch him up before heading home. She especially wanted to let him know Billy Nelson was ready for autopsy.

Rush hour was bad. A drive that should have taken twenty minutes stretched to forty. Traffic on I-35 was at a standstill, red taillights snaking to a vanishing point in the distance. It was so cold in her car that frost had built up on the inside of the windows. She fiddled with the heat settings, directing all the air to the upper vents even though her toes were aching. Traffic inched forward. She removed her gloves and scraped at the frost with her fingernails.

Finally in the underground parking ramp, she shut off the ignition, anxious to get inside the building to warm up. A car horn echoed in the distance, and someone hit a lock button on a vehicle, the sounds distorted in the enclosed area. Tucking the file Savoy had given her into her messenger bag, she headed for the stairwell.

Normally she was vigilant in garages, any garage, even a restricted one like this, but she was thinking about the case and Savoy’s behavior. On top of that, she couldn’t stop rerunning her visit with the boy. Crouching down, giving him a cookie. How glad he’d been to see her. Despite the warnings she’d given the foster mom, Jude sensed he was good at his core. Hopefully it wasn’t too late for him.

She was almost to the elevator entry when her brain tripped, causing her to come to an abrupt halt. She’d passed an unmarked car, the only one in the designated area. Someone had been sitting inside. Not normal.

She retraced her steps. The vehicle wasn’t running. No sound, no radio, no conversation coming from the interior. Approaching it from behind, moving along the driver’s side, she noted that the back seat was empty. Then she spotted Uriah sitting behind the wheel, eyes closed, head back. Cops were known to exhaust themselves and fall asleep in odd places. Desks, toilets, standing against a wall. This felt different.

The parking area was dark, and the poor lighting gave his skin a green cast, but there was a pallor to it that seemed true. He was so washed out, his face almost glowed. Normally he was clean-shaven, but it looked like he might have forgotten to shave that morning. The curly hair on his forehead was damp or recently damp, and his tie had been tossed to the seat beside him, the throat of his white dress shirt open a couple of buttons as if he’d tugged it in a need to cool off in a hurry.

She tapped lightly on the window. No response, so she tried again, a little harder this time. He jerked awake, sat up straight, then tried to act alert as he lowered the window. He was pale.

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