Page 244 of Icy Cold Death

“Want to know something not so coincidental?” Tori asked.

“Sure,” Genesis said.

“You have three victims all in the same area and all tied to Cyrus. That’s not a coincidence. It’s a hunting ground. So someone might be gunning for him.”

She had just been thinking that herself.

“You don’t think it’s him?” she whispered, keeping her voice low. “With all of these women killed and his own wife missing?”

She still felt off.

“No. It’s too easy. This is crazy. Why would he kill three women, then his wife, and then another so far apart?”

“Ego?” she asked. “Maybe he thinks he’s above the law, and after he killed Keri, Aimee, and Tiff, he got cocky. No one noticed for a while, so he opted to kill his wife. He’s not really behaving like a man whose wife is missing.”

She thought about it.

Tori hated to admit it, but she might be wrong.

“That’s a good theory.”

Genesis agreed.

“He’s still fornicating. Men are men. They are all the same.”

She heard it in her voice.

Someone had been burned before.

Tori took a shot.

“How about you let me prove that isn’t the case, and I don’t mean on this investigation? I know a guy you’d really hit it off with.”

She blinked.

“You’re trying to set me up on a blind date while we’re standing on a crime scene? Are you insane?”

“YES,” the phone chimed, and it sounded like Bethany and Trey.

Tori laughed.

“Clearly.”

She shook her head.

“I’ll take a raincheck on that. Let me get to the other side of the country and get settled. How about we focus on this case for now?”

That worked for her.

Josh Coffee wasn’t going anywhere.

“This is how I think it happened,” Genesis said. “He has a bunch of side chicks, and he eliminates them.”

Tori listened.

“Okay, and?”

“He gets away with it. The bodies never show, and he’s in the clear. He figures…well, I got away with it once, twice, and three times, so I’m going to get rich fast.”

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