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Chapter 152. Strike.
They played for a while, the categories growing more absurd as the night stretched on. Dog breeds. Things that were yellow. Words that rhymed with "orange." Kim won some and lost more, and she found herself sitting up straighter, her exhaustion receding with every stupid category."How do you even come up with any of this?" she asked after she lost a round about types of screws."I told you, There's a lot of waiting around to be done during the job and the guys I worked with, we had to find ways to pass the time." He was quiet for a moment, his gaze drifting toward the house across the street. Cross's living room lights had been turned off by their fifth game and the woman had gone to the back of the house. But there was no sign of her doing anything note worthy "There was this one guy, Ervin. He was terrible at this game. Every category, he would just say the first word that popped into his head, even if it made no sense. 'Things you find in a toolbox.' 'Elephant.' Every single tim
Chapter 151. Brands Of Cement.
The hours during their stakeout passed slowly.Cross had not done anything worth watching for the better part of three hours. She had moved from the upstairs window to the downstairs living room, and then from the living room to the kitchen, and then back to the living room again. She had made herself dinner after which she had sat on her couch and eaten it while scrolling through her phone. She had washed the single bowl and the single spoon and set them in a drying rack beside the sink. Then she had paced. Then sat. Then paced again. At one point, she had disappeared into a room at the back of the house and stayed there for twenty minutes, during which Kim had convinced herself that Cross had slipped out a back door and was currently driving away while they sat here like idiots. Then Cross had reappeared in the living room, wearing a different sweater, and Kim had let out a breath she had not realized she was holding."She's not doing anything," Kim said, slumping back against
Chapter 150. The Stake
Kim gaped at the man's almost lazy response. "And how the hell do you know where she lives?" She nearly screeched, hands tightening to fists at her side, fighting the urge to hit him with one of them"I made a call while you were sleeping." Saul responded, still as coy but hi's eyes stayed fixed on the house across the street, tracking the silhouette in the upstairs window as it moved from one side of the room to the other. "I know a guy in city records. He owed me a favor."Kim scoffed, eyes rolling."And how long have you been planning to spy on her?"At this, he turned his head then, just enough to meet her eyes, and the corner of his mouth twitched upwards. "Oh but we're not spying." He said in a mock innocent tone, lowering his voice like he was sharing a secret, “We're just…. scouting. There's a difference.""Is there?" "Scouting sounds better don't you think?. Atleast it's less likely to get us arrested if she looks out her window and sees us sitting here." He settled back ag
Chapter 149. Bridges.
"She can't do this," Kim continued, turning towards Saul abruptly and her voice was rising already, the control she had been clinging to since the hospital beginning to fracture into nothingness. "She fucking can't!"Saul said nothing. He had risen to his feet as well, standing before her with his hands limp by his sides.The afternoon light caught the side of his face, and she could see his jaw working, could see the muscle in his cheek flexing as he ground his teeth together. " Kim,” He groused, "Wait a-,” but the woman snarled at him, cutting him off."How can you just stand there?!" she demanded, turning away from him and pacing toward the sofa. "How can you be so…so calm about this? My brother is out there somewhere. He could be in one of those warehouses right now, and the one person who has the resources to find him just walked out that door like we were nothing. And you're just standing there." She felt something like a sob grow in her throat and the feeling of it choked her,
Chapter 148. Children.
‘Were getting somewhere,’ Both of them thought, hearts feeling close to busting with elation.Just at that moment, Cross cleared her throat, bringing their attention back to her immediately.The woman looked very weary as she looked between them"The kidnappings have been going on for seven months," Cross said, and her voice was quieter now, almost reluctant, as if she were sharing something she had not intended to share. "At least, that's when we started noticing the pattern. The first victims were low-profile. Most of the family members taken had money but no real influence. And it made them easy target's who could disappear without making headlines. But over time, the targets got bigger and once the media got hold of it, the ‘Rich Takers,’ were born. Capricious kidnappers who had no ransom demands, no bodies and no trace."As the woman spoke, Kim was already flipping through her notebook, her finger tracing down a column of dates she had scribbled in the margins during the night.
Chapter 147. Coming Together.
Kim's pen stopped moving as soon as the words landed and her jaw tightened, the muscle flexing beneath her skin. Saul saw her take a breath and hold it, saw her shoulders rise and then fall with deliberate control. Kim was steadying herself from lashing out at the other woman, and it was taking everything she had not to at cross's condescending tone.Trying to descalate the situation, heleaned forward, interrupting Kim before she could speak. "It's worth your time," he drawled, eyes meeting the detective's with defiance. "But it's going to take a minute to lay it all out. So if you're quite done being in a hurry, we'll tell you what we know."Cross held his gaze for a long moment. Her eyes were the color of winter slate, cold and unblinking. Then she nodded once, a small, almost imperceptible dip of her chin. "I'm listening."Saul nodded sharply, before turning to Kim, “You start." Kim exhaled slowly, the breath escaping through her nose, and following his urging, she began.She
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