First, bossing people around is not polite, and second, inactivity is just not in my physiology. You can ask all my teachers from over the years.”
His mouth quirked. “Let me guess. PE was your favorite class?”
“Yes.”
“Mine, too.”
Enough of the pleasantries. She peered closer. “What did you find?”
He pointed to a sleeping bag. “Tucker’s been crashing here. Couple of empty food cans, eaten recently. This is what puzzles me.” With a discarded piece of wire he found on the floor, Mick pulled a piece of crumpled paper loose. It was a diagram of some sort. Keeley looked closer.
“Is that the rooftop?”
“Yes.” Mick frowned. “Why would Tucker be so interested in the rooftop of an abandoned newspaper office?”
Keeley’s stomach tightened. “And a building not more than one mile from where the police recovered his car with my sister’s body in the trunk. What does it mean?”
“I don’t know. Yet.”
Something about the last word worried her. Mick would keep digging, which means he would stick in her life like a thorn. Just find out the truth and he’ll be gone. She poked a toe at a pile of empty snack-cake wrappers, muscles tensing. “Mick...”
He stood. “Uh-huh?”
She stared at the wrappers, sticky with icing. “My sister never could understand how Tucker had no sweet tooth whatsoever. She always told me it was unnatural.”
They locked eyes.
With the wire, he teased a receipt out of a discarded plastic grocery bag. “Purchased last night at a Pick and Pack a couple of miles from here.” He squinted at the time stamp. “Just after eleven.”
Cold trickled down her spine. “I have a feeling Tucker has someone helping him.”
“Gonna keep looking,” he said.
He pushed open the door of the office. She was about to follow him inside when out of the corner of her eye she caught the blur of movement, followed by the crash of the stairwell door being flung open behind her.
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