Hide My Memories: A Romantic Suspense Thriller Series (Hide Me Series Book 1) by Lisa Ladew Page B

exploration that he had on.
    "Did you hear that?" he yelled at the man. "It sounded like a gunshot!"
    "Yeah, where did it come from?" the man yelled back.
    "I think it was down there," he called, pointing, then pounded down the stairs. When he was certain the man wasn't following him, he got in his car and drove away quickly.
    He needed a plan B.
    But before he could even start to think of one, he realized that with any luck at all, he wouldn’t need to. The police would now deliver the woman’s name to him. Suddenly, he was eager to go back to work, and he knew he would be able to concentrate just fine.

Chapter 14
     
     
     
    Something pulled Katerina from her sleep. She rolled over and looked at the time. 11:30 AM. She had slept through her alarm again . She scrubbed her face with her hands and was glad that she had at least woken up a little bit earlier this time. Did she dare examine her dreams? Did she have a choice? She missed the days when all she had to worry about when she woke up was if she would make rent and where her next meal would come from.
    The night before, she had wanted to stay up and think about what had happened that day, but as soon as she got into her apartment, a bone-weary tiredness had dropped upon her, forcing her into her bed, where she fell asleep almost instantly.
    A knock sounded on her front door, urgent and loud. Oh, so that's what had woken her up. She got up and ran down the hallway, pausing to look out her peephole. It was a uniformed police officer. Foreboding flooded through Katerina and she quickly undid her locks.
    "Yes?"
    "Are you Ginger Holloway?"
    "Yes."
    "I need you to come to the police station with me, ma'am," he said.
    Katerina's heart sped up. "Why?" she stammered.
    "I don't know the specifics, but you need to come."
    "Okay, just let me get dressed." Katerina ran down the hallway, jumped into a T-shirt and a pair of jeans, grabbed her phone, and threw her uniform into a bag. She didn't know if she would get a chance to come back here later - she didn't think she was under arrest though. She wondered briefly if someone had decided she was responsible for whatever had happened to that woman after all, and then she pushed the thought away. If she were under arrest, the cop never would have let her go to her room by herself. As she walked slowly back down the hallway to her door, she speed dialed West's number.
    "Hello?"
    "West, there's a police officer here and he says I have to go to the police station."
    "Okay, I'll meet you there." No hesitation, no questions, he was just going to meet her there. Katerina smiled to herself at his… his what, his chivalry? His thoughtfulness? She honestly didn’t know what to think of him but she was grateful for him.
    "Can I drive my own car?" she asked the officer.
    "Yes, I will follow you."
    Katerina got into her small car and drove the fourteen miles to the police station. On the way there, she tried to assess the state of her mind. The woman with the liquid brown eyes was still gone out of her ever-present picture show, but the other two women were still there. Some of the urgency of the images seemed to have been lost though, with the discovery of the first woman. Maybe because she knew what she was dealing with now? At least she did a little.
    With that done, her mind was clear to turn to what was going on now. If her mom hadn't already been gone, she would've been scared for her mother. But she had no one in her life right now. This had to have something to do with what had happened yesterday.
    When she arrived at the police station, the officer waited for her to get out of her car, and then led her through a side door without a word. She walked, slightly behind him, down the starkly white hallway, and held her breath. How was West going to find her?
    Finally, he led her through a pair of double doors and into what could only be an interrogation room. She swallowed and sat down.
    He left her there, and she waited, trying to keep her