Dead End
“His message to Annie had been received—apparently well received, since she’d asked him to return the call, regardless of the time.“Hi.” She answered the phone on the third ring, her voice heavy with sleep.“Hi.”“You still on the job?”“Yeah.” He glanced around at the crowd of law enforcement personnel that seemed to grow by the minute.“Like the others?”“Like the others, but different. Same difference as the last one.”“She’s Hispanic. No ID. And no one reported her missing.”“Right. ’Course, maybe ...by morning, we’ll have gotten a call. Someone might be looking for her by now, or maybe someone thinks she’s at a friend’s house . . . there could be a hundred maybes when you’re dealing with a kid, you know?”“I know. I saw your chief on TV yesterday.”“The press has been all over this. It’s national news. The grandfather of one of the victims is an ambassador.”“I saw him on CNN.”“So did I. He had some harsh words for the D.A.”“Yeah.”The awkward pause he’d been avoiding settled in.MoreLess
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