Page 42 of Justified Fear
“I’ll get my go bag and head on over.I’m in Ewa, so it might take a little bit.”
“We’ll wait for you.Thank you, Morrison.”
He hung up without another word.Maya scratched at the door.He went over to let her in as he called his boss.
“Morrison, how did you know?”
He frowned.“Know what?”
“We have a call.”
“I didn’t know.I was calling you to tell you I was headed to Keely Templeton’s house.”
“Why would you call me about that?Whatever you do on your own time is your own business.She’s not a suspect.”
He blinked.“It’s not a social visit.Her father called to tell me they have to leave the island.A family emergency back in Texas.I said I would keep an eye on things.”
Long beat of silence.“Going with that one?”
Fuck.Even his captain had picked up on his interest.“She’s a victim.”
He had seen what could happen when you made the mistake of getting involved with a victim.Keely might be innocent, but his old partner had gotten tangled up about a victim they found.The darkness stalking her had resulted in a breakup of his team, and Ryan almost lost his life.His old team member—Cameron Dunning—had turned on the entire team.
“Okay.But we have a call.”
Fuck.He would have to call her father and tell him that he had to go out with Maya.Damn.“Where?”
“Makaha.”
“How many are missing?”
“None are missing, but there are three men who vaguely fit the description of our attackers.”
“What makes you think that they are the perpetrators?That could be any three people.”
“All I know is that there is evidence tied to our crime, and we aren’t going on a rescue mission.All three of them have been shot execution style.”
Nine
Ryan arrived at the address less than fifteen minutes after heading out.Something about the place left his blood cold.As he slipped out of his truck, he noticed that both Nikki’s and Seth’s cars were at the location.Cops were everywhere, walking the neighborhood to try to find any witnesses or evidence.Again, something told him this street was empty for a reason.There was a massive driveway with two vehicles sitting in it.The SUV matched the description they had of a car fleeing the Kellys’ home on Saturday night and the TFH Forensics van.
He went to the passenger side of his pickup and let Maya out of the truck.He turned to walk up to the front door when he heard the roar of a motorcycle.He glanced over his shoulder and saw Rami slide into the space behind Ryan’s truck.He waited for him to join them.
“What’s up?”Rami asked.
“Alpha got a call about a triple homicide.When they showed up, they realized it had to do with our case.”
“I know that.I meant, has anything else happened?”
He shook his head.“We just got here.”
He was still dealing with the need to rush to Keely.If these guys are really the men who carried out the killings, then maybe someone was cleaning house.
“Someone wasn’t happy with their handiwork from the other night,” Rami said as they walked up to the front door.
“Just what I was thinking.”
He rolled his shoulders, trying to ease the tension between his shoulder blades.
