Part 28 (1/2)
f.u.c.k.
”If you try anything, I'll shoot you,” he said. He had the gun trained on her.
I am sunk. He could take me anywhere...Throw me into a river...Shoot me in the forest.
And there won't be any Andy Flynn to save me this time.
CHAPTER 47.
”Andy, it's Bob. What were you saying?”
”Are you in your room?” Andy asked.
”Yup.”
”I'll be there in a flash.”
When Andy arrived, Bob was sitting on the bed with his suitcases open and his belongings laid out around him. He was to fly back to Quantico the following morning.
”Do you remember when you met Makedde at the conference?” Andy asked. ”Before we went for lunch? She went off with a guy. He was a tall, young...”
”That's right. I remember you coming over all jealous.”
”I did not come over all jealous.”
Bob gave him an incredulous look.
”I do remember him, actually,” he said. ”He was a security guard. You say his name is Roy?”
”Well, it could be. Makedde has been dating someone named Roy.”
”Last name?”
He thought of the card on the flowers. ”No idea.”
”Okay, what about the photo on his rego? Same guy?”
”I'll have to check. I didn't immediately recognise him. He still could have been the same guy though. Twenty-nine sound right to you?”
”Unfortunately. And you say your girlfriend's dating him?”
”She's not my girlfriend.”
”Evidently not.” Bob said, straight-faced. ”Well, if this is our guy, she's got one h.e.l.l of a psycho-beacon going.”
”She once called herself a psycho-magnet.”
”Well, at least she knows it. Let's give her a ring and see what she can tell us about him,” Bob suggested.
But Makedde was not answering her phone.
Andy stood in the hotel hallway, feeling panicked. The phone had rung several times, and the machine kept picking it up. He didn't want to leave a message but he had to contact her-now.
He walked back into the room. ”No answer,” he told Bob. ”I know someone else to call, though.”
Andy dialled the number for Makedde's father in Victoria. He felt thankful that he had the number handy...until the machine kicked in there as well.
”d.a.m.n,” he said aloud. ”h.e.l.lo, Mr Vanderwall, it's Andy Flynn. Please give me a call as soon as possible...”
CHAPTER 48.
Makedde looked at her captor with hatred and confusion.
Why are you doing this, Roy?
But unbeknown to Makedde it was Roy's brother Daniel who watched the road intently as he drove them at speed deep into the countryside. When he turned and caught her looking at him, he smiled and let out a humourless chuckle.
And to think I actually liked that smile...
Gagged, all she could do was watch out the window, trying to catch a glimpse of something recognisable-the top of a familiar building, a landmark, a highway sign, anything to give her some idea where they were headed.
Nothing. Dark sky and the occasional treetop. Nothing useful at all.
If only she could reach that doorhandle, jump out right now, but they were moving way too fast. Even on the off-chance that she did survive the fall, he would shoot her like a lame horse as she lay wounded on the side of the road. He'd already killed Ann, after all. What if there was another car? A witness? But Makedde thought better of that plan. It was just as likely that he would kill a witness who stopped to help her, wasn't it?
Is he the Nahatlatch Killer? Is he responsible for murdering the UBC students?