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“Yo?”
“In the basement!” Callum answered.
With a leisure pace, I made my way downstairs. A bare bulb barely emitting enough of a glow to see anything was all that lit the area, and it smelled of moss. I went through the door situated along the far wall.
Callum was waiting for me on the other side, leaning against an old deep freezer, his gloved hands holding a gulf club that was slightly bent at one end.
“You know things are about to get messy, right?” he asked as way of greeting.
I ignored that. “What else did you need to show me?”
“This.” He turned and lifted the lid of the freezer.
I peered inside, scanning over a large mass wrapped in garbage bags. It was fucking obvious this was a body.
“It hasn’t been in here long,” I noted. There wasn’t any sign of frost, and it still looked pretty flexible.
“Should it be in here at all?” Callum asked sarcastically.
“What else would she have done with it?” I reached into the cubicle and ran my hand over the corpse. As I thought, it wasn’t too old. She had to of done this recently. Very recently. But to go straight to Annika’s afterward, why?
“Text my sister.”
“And tell her what?” Callum asked, placing the golf club beneath his arm so he could dig out his cell.
“Tell her or Evie to go by Annika’s.”
“For?”
“Because Nova was just there. Stop asking questions.”
I found the head of the body, and then used my fingers to tear a decent slit in the garbage bags wrapped around it.
“You recognize him?”
Callum stepped closer to get a better look at our mystery cadaver. “Nah. But there was a blue sedan being towed from in front of the house when I got here. More than likely it was his. I sent the plate number to Tripp.”
“Hm.” I pushed the lid of the freezer down and rested my palms on its worn surface. “I’ve never seen him in town before. He could’ve come here for the drive. If other people are getting involved then the bid has gone up, we need to move faster.”
“Well, yeah. But shouldn’t we discuss the bodies your girl has on her now. Aren’t you a little bothered by the fact that she’s been running around killing people?”
I glanced over my shoulder at him. “Why would I be bothered? Did you forget who we are?”
“Me and you were raised to do this kind of thing. She’s supposed to be this towns innocent angel.”
“You know better than to listen to other peoples’ judgements. I’ve always known Nova wasn’t the sweet, innocent thing she pretended to be. I knew it from the moment we met.”
“So, it was toxicity at first sight?”
“Put that club down and let’s go.”
“What do we do about this guy?” he hitched a thumb over his shoulder.
“Absolutely nothing. We’ll call in someone else to handle it. We don’t have time.” I left the back room and headed for the stairs, piecing together my next course of action.
“Evie’s heading to Annika’s now.”
“Good.” I went right at the top of the stairs, looking over the kitchen.
