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“Shit,” he said.
“Yeah, I know. But is it or isn’t it?”
“One way to find out. We go to The Plains, Virginia.”
“‘We’?”
“You found it. Can you come with me, today?”
“Let me check with my parents.”Great, Mick, you sound like a preteen who wants to go to the movies with a boy.
“I’ll wait to hear from you.”
CHAPTER44
I’M GOING WITH A POLICE DETECTIVE,Dad, I’ll be fine.”
Gibson’s parents had come over to watch the kids. Gibson had packed an overnight bag, and was saying goodbye to her father on the front porch of her house.
“I think you’re getting in this sucker so deep, you’ll never get back out.”
“One way of looking at it.”
“Is he picking you up?”
“Yep, in fact that’s him now,” said Gibson as Sullivan’s trim dark sedan pulled onto her street and turned into the driveway.
“You be careful, cop escort or not. I’m too old to be raising little kids. My knees and back are shot.”
She hugged him, surprising her father, and said, “I’ll call with my status.”
“You got your Beretta?”
“Of course.”
She got into the car with Sullivan, who flicked a hand in greeting at Gibson’s father. Rogers merely nodded back, his hands stuffed in his pants pockets as he stared down the police detective.
“Still looks like a cop,” noted Sullivan. “Intimidating.”
“My dad will look like a cop until he takes his last breath.”
They headed north and rode Interstate 64 to 95. At Fredericksburg they branched northwest onto Route 17. A little under three hours after starting their trip they were rolling into the little hamlet of The Plains.
“Don’t think they see many murders here,” noted Sullivan as they cruised along.
“I would hope not. Did you make a call?”
“Yeah. Someone from the Sheriff’s Office will meet us at Oxblood’s place.”
“What do we know about him?”
“Not much. He was around forty. Lived with his mother until she died. Then he kept living in her house. Did equipment repair work locally. Kept to himself.”
“They from The Plains?”
“Don’t know, but I’m going to ask.”
When they pulled into Oxblood’s drive they didn’t see a sheriff’s car. But a woman did come out from the house next to Oxblood’s. She was dressed in jeans and a flannel shirt. She looked weathered and tough.
