Becket straightened. “What’s wrong?”
“It’s a long story. You know how I’ve been dating Kristina?”
“Yeah.”
“I stayed at her place last night. She’s always stayed at mine, so it was the first time. And I found some stuff. Okay, not just some stuff. Alotof stuff.”
“What kind of stuff?”
“The stolen kind.”
Becket shot to his feet. “Kristina’s the town thief?”
“It looks like it. I called the sheriff’s station and they came down. I felt like shit doing it behind her back, but it was the right thing to do. They took her in.”
Becket frowned. “Kristina’s new in town, right?”
“That’s another thing…she says she’s only been here a few months, but I think she got here earlier. I saw a note from her landlord alluding to as much.”
“Where’d she come from?”
“Um…I don’t know. She might have said somewhere in Wyoming.”
Becket grabbed his keys and left his office. “You said she’s at the station?”
“Yeah, they just brought her in. Why?”
“I have to go.”
He stopped in the break room. “Irene, can you finish the report on my laptop?”
“Sure.” She frowned. “Everything okay?”
“I don’t know. I need to check on something.”
She nodded. “Go.”
He jogged out of the station to his car.
On the way to the sheriff’s office, he tried his brother’s phone. No answer.Dammit.
He pressed his foot to the floor. When he finally got there, he stepped inside at the exact moment his brother walked out of his office.
Jesse frowned. “Beck…what are you doing here?”
“It could be her.”
“What could be who?”
“The person who’s been messing with Sky. It could be Kristina.”
His brother urged him down the hall and lowered his voice. “Why do you say that?”
“Because she arrived in Amber Ridge when these things started happening. She got a job at Sky’s doggy daycare, possibly to get close to Sky. And now she’s been identified as the town thief, which means she was the one who broke into Sky’s house.”
“We haven’t questioned her yet.”
“Are you doing that now?”
