Writing on the Wall by Jenna Rae

Author:Jenna Rae [Rae, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Gay & Lesbian, Lesbian, Fiction
ISBN: 9781594932908
Google: u3lYXwAACAAJ
Amazon: 1594932905
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2012-06-19T18:32:16+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Del spent most of the day trolling through various databases, trying to find something that would help her narrow the search. She’d finally gotten the hate mail from the publisher, and her captain agreed to give her two guys to sort through it. There were three huge bags of it, and the captain raised his eyebrows. Three guys. Del would go over the ones they sorted into the “Second Look” category. She wished she could do it all herself, but there was just too much.

The rage in some of the letters seemed to burn her fingers when she held them. The writers all had three things in common: they wrote anonymously, they loved Jesus, and they wanted to kill “Lisa Miller.” She finished one particularly vitriolic missive and had to go to the bathroom to wash her face and hands. She had to get the sick off of her body, if not her mind.

Finally, late in the afternoon, she decided to check in with a friend in the computer crimes division. Well, she hoped he was still her friend. After last year, she wasn’t sure she had any left in the department. But Anton Jones seemed glad to see her. He was tucked into a tiny cubbyhole, off by himself, and Del felt like she was visiting the department’s resident wizard. His wall was completely covered with comics and math formulae and Hubble images. His lanky frame was folded into an undersized chair, and Jones nudged it back to make room for her.

After a minute of small talk, she filled him in on things.

He rolled his eyes. “Oh, God.”

“What?”

“People are so naïve.” He picked up a pen and started rolling it in his long fingers. “If I stood here and told you I was a sixteen-year-old blond girl, you’d know I was lying. But I say it online, and it’s true.” He tossed the pen at her. “As far as you know.”

“Yeah, I know. But did he pick her, you think, or was it just a random thing?” She tossed the pen back.

Anton shrugged. “Need more data.” He tossed the pen at her again.

“Is there any way to track him down? I mean, could you look at her computer and tell where he e-mailed her from?” She tossed the pen onto the desk.

“Would you do it from your computer at home, if you were a dark hat?”

Del shook her head.

“Odds are, he went to a library or a café, used cash or a stolen card.” He eyed her. “The vic is a friend?”

Del nodded, her face bland, and he laughed.

“Maybe more than a friend?”

Del shook her head. “My neighbor. And I want this guy out of her life. I think he’s escalating fast. He—I think it was him, anyway—broke in and cut her pets open like fucking baked potatoes, left ’em for her to find. She’s freaked. And I can’t seem to make any headway.”

Anton nodded, making a face. “Tell you what, I’ll look into it. Gimme your friend’s info, get her to send me screen shots if she can, and I’ll see what I can do.

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