Chapter 34

The weekend had been hell for Matt. He had barely slept or ate. When he had slept, it was on an old cot in the station’s basement. He couldn’t bear going home to an empty house with nothing but his thoughts. His thoughts of Jodi. Telling her – admitting to her - that he loved her and her not responding. Her silence in that moment was worse than the things she had said before that moment. Matt shook his head like he could shake away the memory and the feelings of that rejection.

He looked at his watch. It was almost 7:30 on Monday morning. Patty would be coming in to start her shift on the switchboard. The student receptionist would be coming in at eight and Williamson would be coming in to relieve Goldman, who had worked the night shift. Dalton was on leave.

Matt sat in his office going over case notes. Matt and Williamson had tried the phone number they had gotten from D.J. Jones days ago. It was disconnected. They had run the plate numbers that Dex gave them of the truck that took J