"Beth, stay in the car until we can secure the scene."
"Why does the girl always have to stay in the car? Besides, you won't find anything there. Josef's long gone." That much she had already figured out, but where had Mick gone after leaving her? And why? That question was haunting her. What had she done wrong?
Carl was too busy to deal with her, so Beth stayed in the car feeling totally miserable, and listening to the police radio. At first the chatter was all about Josef's security being questioned. Reports came back that Trevor had been here earlier but Mr. Kostan was out of town for the night in San Francisco (oh, she was to have gone on that trip with him!) and the Englishman had been turned away.
Now they were thinking he might have been attacked on the street right outside of the building. The convenience store clerk killer was still at large and cops reporting in said a suspicious death had occurred just two blocks away at a parking garage. Might be a connection.
Carl came back, shaking his head. "Go home, Beth. We'll let you know if anything turns up."
"I want to go with you to that new murder scene."
"How do you know it's a murder?"
"Your dispatcher was told it was the same m.o. as the clerk. You've got a serial killer running around, and I want to help, Carl. Use me. I have expertise with these kinds of cases, and I won't faint again, I promise."
"I don't like it, Beth. You're not yourself tonight."
But in the end, he caved. Things were getting crazy and he could use all the help he could get.
Mick watched her at the new crime scene until he got the phone call he'd been waiting for: The Cleaner had a name of the rogue's unintentional sire, one Gerald Stovsky. He would pay the guy a visit, hoping for a clue to the rogue's identity.
Looks like Josef had gotten lucky. They might just be able to pin it on the rogue.
He and Josef had had a meeting of the minds and he had been adamant she was not to be harmed. Josef had headed off to San Francisco to make sure of his alibi, reluctantly.
But what was he going to do about Beth?