They Thought He was Safe by PD Workman

Author:PD Workman [Workman, PD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: pd workman
Published: 2019-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

Despite his assertion to Mr. Peterson that he’d had enough sleep and wouldn’t be able to sleep during the day, Zachary fell asleep while he was holding an ice pack across his eyes. He had apparently been conked out for a couple of hours when Lorne came into the room to see if he was ready to go to the camera repair shop.

“Do you want to sleep longer? We can put this off for another time.”

“No.” Zachary blinked his eyes, trying to clear his vision, knowing that if he rubbed them, the bruises would make him regret it. “I want to get those pictures processed as soon as I can. I haven’t heard back from Philippe yet about what John said.” He picked up his phone from the bed beside him and looked at it. There were several missed calls from Philippe. The ringer was turned off and with the phone on the bed, the vibration hadn’t been enough to wake him up. “Oh, I guess he did. Hang on a sec, I need to see what he has to say.”

Rather than checking the voicemail messages that Philippe had left, Zachary just called him. Philippe answered almost immediately this time. “Zachary? Where the hell have you been? I thought he got you too!”

“Thought who got me?” Zachary asked, a knot tightening in his stomach.

“I’ve been calling John and calling him. He doesn’t answer. I checked with one of the guys who works at the same site as he does and John didn’t show up today! He never misses work, but he didn’t show up today. No one knows where he is. Every call just goes through to voicemail, and he’s not returning any of them. It’s just like with Jose, Zachary! What’s going on?”

Zachary looked over at Mr. Peterson, who could probably hear Philippe’s panicked voice, even though Zachary didn’t have it on speakerphone.

“I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe he is sick today. Do you know where he lives? Or who he lives with?”

“They said he didn’t go home last night. He went out to the hospital to see you, and then he never went home.”

“He would have had to go home,” Zachary said blankly.

“I know, but he didn’t!”

“He had all of those papers. He would have gone home to put them away somewhere safe. He had put all that time and effort into all of that research. He wouldn’t have let anyone else get their hands on it.”

“He’s missing!” Philippe insisted.

“I hear you… are you going to report it to the police?”

“He wouldn’t want me to.”

“Why not?”

“Because, we don’t report each other to the police. If he was just somewhere else… I would get him in trouble. I don’t want to get him in trouble.”

“He could already be in trouble. Not with the police, but with someone who intends to do him harm. You need to report it.”

“No, I can’t. Nando told me to stay out of this. He’ll kill me if he finds out that I talked to you and that I’ve been talking with John.

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