Page 74 of Finding Jacob
“I can’t remember exactly, but it had to be after I’d called the police, otherwise, I would have been suspicious. I must have dropped my phone somewhere.”
“Can you remember what he said?”
“Stay in the room and he’d come and get me when it was all clear. Which is what I did. Oh, the security light went on outside so I assumed whoever was in the kitchen had left, but they would have had to climb the wall, there’s no gate.”
“We found a ladder on the outside of the wall. One of those portable ones.” He looked to Jacob when he spoke, and Jacob nodded. It annoyed me slightly.
“Any prints yet?” Jacob asked.
The officer shook his head. “Too soon. You know how it works at our end,” he answered.
I looked at Jacob. How did he know that?
“I can offer resources if it speeds things up. As you can imagine, we’d like to find out who these people were rather rapidly.”
The officer looked at me before answering. “I’ll put it forward.”
It was the first time it really hit home there had been two people in my house.
“What about the syringe?” I asked, bringing the meeting back to me.
“It’s with the tox team, but first indication suggests it was heroin.”
“Heroin?” Jacob asked. “Not the first choice of drug to be injected into a carton of drink.”
“It’s strange, for sure. Which is why I’m thinking whoever did this wasn’t that clued up on the drug.”
“Jules died of a heroin overdose, and she’d never taken the drug before,” I said.
The officer furrowed his brow. “Jules?”
I explained about Jules and the thought that she hadn’t taken her own life. I wanted to bring Nathan into the conversation, he also had information on Hannah being at Jules’s house the night before, but he kept quiet. I felt a very slight tap to my thigh and turned my attention to Jacob. He wasn’t looking at me, but at the police officer.
“Can you give me her full name?” the officer asked, and I was torn. I took the tap as a sign to be quiet.
Nathan answered for me, and the officer nodded. “Ah, yeah, I saw the newspaper articles. I’ll pull that file as well,” he said. I wasn’t sure that was what Jacob and Nathan wanted.
I was asked more questions and some of the same ones but in a different format. I grew weary of them.
“Look, I’ve told you everything I know. You can ask the same question over and over and you’ll only get the same answer,” I snapped.
The officer looked at me and smiled gently. “Okay, I just didn’t want to miss anything that could prove to be vital later on.”
I sighed. “I just want to get my things and go home.” I looked at Jacob as I spoke.
“This is where Anna will be living from now,” Jacob said, handing over another card. Gone were the days when the officer simply wrote down a name and address, I guessed.
“We’ll be in touch as soon as we have more news,” he said, and then stood. Jacob and Nathan also rose and shook his hand. I simply smiled and thanked him.
“What now?” Nathan asked.
“Can you get the rest of my suitcases from the basement?” I asked, knowing he’d been down there once. “Those stairs are rickety.”
Although I had packed some bags, I decided to remove all my clothes while I was here. I didn’t relish the thought of a removal company rifling through them. While Nathan retrieved the suitcases, Jacob and I headed back up to my bedroom.
“I might as well take everything I can now. Did you call a locksmith?” I asked.
“Yeah, should be here anytime now. And I’ve called your alarm company, they’ll upgrade to remote access and monitor. What about the guy that owns either side?”
