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Then he had it. “A freezer. Like a walk-in kind.”
“Yeah. And you know what sucks about these? One door. Easy to lock from the outside.”
“No way out.”
“Yeah,” said Nick. “Trapped.”
CHAPTER 34
Becca woke to the smell of breakfast cooking.
That was so foreign it dragged her out of bed. She checked Chris’s phone.
No messages. None on her phone, either.
Her mom was bustling around the kitchen, frying bacon and pouring pancakes. Becca glanced at the clock over the microwave. It was barely after seven.
“Mom?” she said, rubbing her eyes. “What are you doing?” Her mom hardly glanced up as she turned the bacon. “I’ll give you three guesses.”
“But—why aren’t you still at work—”
“Well, it was a quiet night, so I left at six. Want some coffee? I thought I’d make us breakfast while I still had the work adrenaline thing going.”
Becca dropped into the kitchen chair. “In a minute.”
Her mom gave her a knowing smile. “Rough night?”
Probably easier to let her mom think she’d knocked back a few beers with Quinn and was sitting here hungover. “Too rough.”
Becca stared at Chris’s phone, willing a text to come in.
It wasn’t very obedient.
She couldn’t take it anymore. She flipped open the phone and scrolled through Chris’s contacts until she stopped on Michael.
Did Chris make it home OK?
The response took fewer than thirty seconds.
Who is this?
Of course he wouldn’t know. She mentally kicked herself and sent back her name. This time his response took a moment longer.
Was Chris with you last night?
She wrote back,
I haven’t seen him since the storm.
Then she waited, but Michael didn’t respond. She sent a few more texts asking about Chris, all of which went unanswered.
Her mom set a cup of coffee on the table beside her. “Who are you texting?”
“Some guy.”
“Some guy?” Her mom sounded too interested. “Want to tell me about this ‘some guy’?”
“Not like that.” Maybe she could borrow her mother’s car after she went to bed for the day.
