Page 67 of Her Last Whisper

“You can’t help everyone,” he said.

“No, but I can help family. Nick is like a brother to me.”

The sheriff hesitated as he understood her point. “Just be careful with your workload.”

“Wow, am I under a twenty-four hour watch now?” she said playfully.

“I mean it, Katie.”

“I know. Even though my parents are gone, I’m still the luckiest girl in the world to have you,” she said, and squeezed his arm.

Thirty-Nine

Wednesday 2330 hours

“Hello?” answered a very sleepy voice.

“Hey, McGaven, you weren’t in bed, were you?” said Katie. She couldn’t fall asleep right away still thinking about the case and her uncle’s visit.

“Katie?”

“You sound surprised. Sorry it’s so late. Got home a while ago and my uncle was here. I’ve found out some stuff. It’s been interesting to say the least.”

“Some of us do have lives, you know.”

“I have so much to tell you, but that can wait until the morning. I’ve been thinking…” she began.

“Oh no, here it comes,” he said, sounding more like his usual chipper self.

Katie adjusted her cell phone’s speaker. “So I want you to pull up everything about Dr. Kenneth Jamison that you can find—everything. Get anything from Denise that she has from social media.”

“Couldn’t you have waited until morning to ask me to do that?” he said. There was a soft giggle in the background.

“Oh.” Katie realized that he wasn’t alone. “Sorry, you’re with your girlfriend. Please apologize to her. Hopefully, she won’t hate me too much before I get a chance to meet her.”

McGaven laughed. “She knows all about you and she still wants to meet you.”

“I guess it can wait until tomorrow,” she said slowly.

“Go ahead, finish your thought—otherwise it will bug the crap out of you.”

“Well, you seem to have more to share with me from today.”

“Don’t change the focus to me. What do you have?”

“Jane Doe has been put on lockdown—no visitors—and there’s no indication of when she will have them.”

“Interesting.”

“I’m worried for her safety. She must be terrified. I don’t want—”

“Don’t psyche yourself out thinking that what happened to Amanda will happen to Jane Doe.”

“I guess things can wait until tomorrow.”

“Well, I’ve found video footage of Amanda getting into a high-end car with an unknown man.”

“What? Are you kidding? What time?”