An Obvious Fact
“Vic continued to read the borrowed paper. “It’s more about the addition to the museum than the case. More to the point, where did they get this really hideous photo of you?”
I ignored her and slipped the card into the electronic mechanism, watched as it blinked from red to green, and pushed the door open. I have, in my time as the father of a teenage daughter, seen scenes of chaos and anarchy that no man should ever witness, and this was another of those. The furniture was turned over with ...the bed pushed against the wall, clothes and personal effects everywhere. Pictures had been thrown on the floor, and the closet doors had been pulled from the sliders.
Vic peered in after me. “So, you think they were looking for something?”
I tipped the mattress from the wall for a look behind it, just making sure there weren’t any bodies lying about, and then leaned it back. “Where do you want to start?”
She stepped over a pile of clothes and put the newspaper on a windowsill.MoreLess
I ignored her and slipped the card into the electronic mechanism, watched as it blinked from red to green, and pushed the door open. I have, in my time as the father of a teenage daughter, seen scenes of chaos and anarchy that no man should ever witness, and this was another of those. The furniture was turned over with ...the bed pushed against the wall, clothes and personal effects everywhere. Pictures had been thrown on the floor, and the closet doors had been pulled from the sliders.
Vic peered in after me. “So, you think they were looking for something?”
I tipped the mattress from the wall for a look behind it, just making sure there weren’t any bodies lying about, and then leaned it back. “Where do you want to start?”
She stepped over a pile of clothes and put the newspaper on a windowsill.MoreLess
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