Chad’s touch was delicate, soft, all until he slid a needle through Romeo’s skin.
Romeo watched Chad through a squint.
“Do you know what’s in the field?”he asked.
Chad paused, glancing up at him through his lashes.“Is this ...is this a joke?Does it have a punchline?”
“No.Why do you think that?”
“No idea, just...”Chad shook his head and went back to the wound.
“The field Chad, what’s in the field?”
“Mud I imagine,” he leaned back to glance around the outhouse.“We don’t have any farm equipment, so I doubt there’s anything but earthworms out there.”
“There’s maggots too.”Romeo’s eyes glinted.“I can guarantee there’s maggots.”
Chad frowned but didn’t ask.
He knew how Romeo liked to kill, but he didn’t know who he’d been killing like that.
“Has Josh told you about a case he’s working on?”
“No.He talks about cases we’ve worked on, but nothing current.I’m not a detective anymore.”
“But he is and he has my car.”
Chad leaned back.“Your car?”
“Yes.It’s been over a month, and I’m assuming he didn’t get any DNA or fingerprints from inside or outside the vehicle.I’m on the database, my face would be all over the news if he’d found anything.”
Chad’s nod was hesitant.
“What other tests will they do on the car?”Romeo asked.
“Assuming this car has been involved in something it shouldn’t have been...”
“Yes, assuming that.”
Chad swallowed.“They’ll obviously try to find footage of the car from CCTV, dashcam, that kind of thing.”
“What else?”
“A soil sample from the tires will be taken and matched with a region, then possibly an area depending on what soil, particles and minerals are discovered.They will do a tread print of the wheels, try and match it to a place of interest.Tires leave their own fingerprints.”
“Then you better be careful,” Romeo warned.“Because there’s fingerprints outside the double doors to this outhouse pressed into the mud and you don’t want Josh looking at them too closely...”
