Something was off.
Answering his phone, he really hoped that Greyson had found something because they were running in circles, and he could tell.
Whoever was behind this clusterfuck was starting to make little mistakes.
They’d found his hidey-hole, and it was only a matter of time before they found him. All he had to hope was the killer had no freaking clue that his killing space had been made.
If he and Ethan had to sit their asses there for hours, in hopes he brought another victim there, so be it.
A Fed had to do what a Fed had to do.
PERIOD.
“Yo, Grey, tell me you have something because we’re getting the runaround.”
The man on the phone laughed.
“Oh, I have something. Is it what you want? I don’t know. I researched all of your suspects, and then widened the search when none of them owned a boat. I’ve come up with two people who do.”
Gene hoped he could work with this.
Then again, if he was dumping bodies in the ocean, and killing someone, he’d never use his own shit.
He’d steal something.
“Okay, hit me with it. Who?”
Greyson gave him the names.
“Rodrigo Cruz owns one, and so does Agent Lucas Mayfield. He lives on one docked in the bay.”
Gene stood there.
Silently.
“You there?” Greyson asked.
Yeah, he was there, but it didn’t fit. That was the problem. Oh, the mob man did, but his boat wasn’t docked here.
“I’m okay, but I already heard from Rodrigo that his boat is just off of Italy in the Mediterranean, and it’s a yacht—not a boat. As for the Fed, if you were going to kill people, and use a boat to dump them, would you use your own?”
Greyson considered it.
“No,” he said. “That would be stupid. That’s bringing the evidence right to me. I’d steal one, or I’d‘borrow’one without anyone knowing.”
Exactly.
“I feel like this might be a setup and the runaround even more. Like the killer knows the mob man owns a boat and is pointing us at him.”
Shit.
That was a very good point.
“This is well-strategized,” Gene admitted. “This person knows how long chloroform lasts in the body, and how to set up a scene. Dumping the bodies killed evidence, and we didn’t have much trace on the last victim. We’re being boned,” he admitted.
Oh, Greyson didn’t like this.
That screamed cop to him.
