Chapter 4
Jo leant on the wall beside her desk in Sunhill CID, talking to the father of the missing girl on the phone. She sighed as she hung up. They weren't making much progress with the case. She glanced out the window, and saw a couple walking towards the entrance of the station. The man had his arm around the girl. She smirked as she realised it was Sam and Phil. Sam looked a lot better than she had this morning.
"Zain" Jo called him over
"What?"
"Look at that." She pointed at Phil and Sam
"So?" he said, not sounding bothered
"So, do you think they're a couple?"
"I don't know. No-one tells me anything." The phone on Sam's desk began to ring. Jo picked it up, thinking it would be the father of the missing girl again.
"Hello?" It was a man's voice. "Is this Samantha?"
"No, it's her colleague, DC Jo Masters. Do you want me to leave a message?"
"Just tell her Hugh rang and I was wondering if she'd received my letter?"
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Sam and Phil came back into CID moments later, glad of the heat in the office
"Sam, someone called Hugh rang. He said he wanted to know if you'd received his letter" Jo said as she sat down. Sam's heart skipped a beat. She glanced at Phil who looked nearly as alarmed as she did.
"I'm going to tell the DCI" Phil said, standing up quickly
"Why what's wrong?" Zain asked him, confused
"It's nothing" Sam said quickly "Phil, don't bother telling the DCI, he's just trying to wind me up" However, Phil walked out of CID, heading towards the interview rooms, bringing a reluctant looking Sam with him.
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"What was that about?" Zain said, staring after them
"I don't know, but let's just leave it. They would have told us if they wanted us to know." Jo said firmly.
"Fine" Zain said, not sounding happy about it. Just then, the phone on Sam's desk began to ring again. They both just stared at it for several seconds.
"Are you going to get that?" Zain asked her
"Why don't you get it?"
"You're the one working on the same case as her"
"But what if it's that guy again?"
"Fine" Zain rolled his eyes. He lifted up the phone. "Hello? Yeah, she's here" he handed the phone to Jo "It's the dad of the missing kid". Jo took the phone and began to talk to the distressed man on the other end. Zain glanced at Jo, making sure she was busy, and walked quickly in the direction that Sam and Phil had gone. He knew that the sensible thing would be to leave them alone, as Jo had told him, but he needed to know what was going on.