Chapter 52: Writing Back
Mick was back outside the club parked even more vigilant than before. He had spent the night prior in bed with Beth and in doing so missed his chance, the killer struck again. He even took Beth's car in case by some chance the killer had made him and that was why he was only striking on nights Mick didn't come out to watch the place.
Frustrated Mick looked over the notes again, still nothing on Zira and if these killings had any relation to her chances were she was long dead and no one had found the body yet. The dates of the killings were random, no pattern or anything linking them. The victims didn't fit the same type, different sexes, hair color, skin color, it didn't matter to this killer. Mick had never seen it before. Every case he had worked the killer had a motive, a stressor that set him off, maybe the girl looked like his ex wife who ruined his life, or the guy was cheating on his wife reminding him of how his own father cheated on his mother before leaving them with nothing.
Unable to sit any longer Mick got out and headed out to do another sweep of the area to make sure he hadn't missed anything. He saw the old Cutlass pull up outside as usual and made his way towards the back of the club not wanting to be pulled into another one of the mans lectures on how the children of the world need to be saved from themselves. After doing a sweep of the building he came back and the Cutlass was gone, already taking another drunken girl home talking her ear off.
David had wrote Mia back not entirely sure he wanted to go there, go back to past and his mistakes now that he had a life worth the world, but he would like to know how she had been doing. He hadn't seen her in almost 300 years, sure when he first got her letter he did a background check on her to see if she checked out and she did, did a stint as a lingerie model then took to developing her own line of sexy items in this life. As he had put pen to paper he found he didn't know what to say really, after 300 years what do you say to someone?
After rereading her letter he decided to go with something basic asking how she was doing and how things had been with her since they last met and saying he was extremely happy in LA with his life. He didn't give specifics just generalizations about life and such not wanting to give details about Candice or his position with Kostan Industries. David had checked her out, but still he didn't like that she just suddenly found him again, bringing up old memories he had tried to forget.
As he went down to the front desk of the building David had the letter delivered on his way into work. He was doing his biweekly security system check making sure everything was in order so nothing got too lack. He had also received a voicemail from someone in the threat department apparently one of the threatening letters Josef had gotten was laced with silver. So now he had to go find this disgruntled former employee and take care of things, but it gave him an outlet to focus on instead of the past. He knew he needed to talk to Candice about some things but he just didn't want to bring it up, why talk about the horrible things in his past, his sort comings when they were so happy now. Part of him was hoping Mia wouldn't want anything to do with him and writing him that latter was just a whim like in the past and now that she had made contact she would drop it.
Candice was working her way around the loft happy to be helping in the new project but also not quite happy. She had found this designing fun and she did enjoy it but part of her felt like she had wasted all that time in law school for nothing if she wasn't going to use it. She missed being in charge and arguing her way but she knew she wasn't ready to go back to work for the DA's office so she would just keep up with all the news so she would be ready when it came to the right time.
She looked around the master suite and into the bathroom and sighed, "But this is damn fun. Beth is going to love it." As she headed through the rest of the house she made adjustments to things that had been brought back after construction was finished, she couldn't wait to show her best friend but most of all she couldn't wait to show her the new office. Mick had planned that one from the beginning and it was wonderful, all she had done was made the selections in furniture and paint color.
Everything was almost complete and ready to be seen by Mick and Beth in just about another week maybe. Candice was happy to have gotten a voicemail from her best friend about Kayla wanting to go to school and how her and Mick had an appointment with a good preschool to put her in for the rest of the year before she started kindergarten.
Her mother was wanting to visit for Christmas this year, she had weaseled out of Thanksgiving saying she and David were going away but her mother was determined and if she was honest she missed her mother. Sure she knew she had some secrets and she had to made accommodations when she stayed with blood and making sure it wasn't too warm out but it was working, David had been wonderful as always. Although her mother kept asking when David was going to marry her or when she was going to get grandchildren. It wasn't going to happen for her which was fine enough in her mind, she wasn't very maternal, not that she didn't have a good role model she loved her mother but she just didn't feel it. She loved little Kayla and Lucas and being an aunt was as close to being a parent as she would ever get and that suited her.
Deciding to call it a day at the loft Candice headed out wanting to have time to prepare her surprise for David. He had been thinking about the past a lot as of late and she wished he would open up to her without her having to question him on it. She knew he didn't want to talk about his past faults, no one did really but he had to know by now that she doesn't care what happened then, not in a way that would upset her only in how it made him into the man he is today.
To Be Continued…
Evilous
