“Is she an employee?”
“No.”
“Then I’ll check into it, okay? You can’t roam the streets right now, kid. That lunatic is out there. From what you’ve told me about the murder, it sounds like the work of a professional. One who gets paid to do his job cleanly and efficiently. He’s not going to rest until he takes care of loose ends. For a man like that, finding you will be simple.”
“And I’m a loose end.”
“Yep.”
“He saw me, maybe not my features because I’d turned the lights low, but he’d have seen enough to be able to identify me as the girl who lives here. Margo and Bud are both too fat for them to be mistaken as me.”
“The question is, can you identify him? You refused to answer that when the detectives were questioning you, but I remember what you said earlier when you came to fetch me. You watched hisevil expressionwere the words you used – and he knew it. Therefore, he wasn’t wearing his mask like he was when he broke in here and I confronted him, right?”
Alicia’s face paled, and she dropped onto the bed, black plastic deflating around her feet.
“Oh God, what am I going to do?”