Week 405 – Friends and family of missing nurse desperately cling to hope

Friends and family of missing nurse desperately cling to hope.

Garret stood over the discarded body, fear and hope warring inside him. The body wasn’t Calico’s, not this time anyway, but it was her ex. Derek Daniels had been almost decapitated when someone slit his neck.

Derek’s father.

DNA had proved that he was the killer, but it didn’t tell them where he was hiding out.

If the man could kill his own son with such apparent ease then killing Calico wouldn’t be at all difficult for him.

How much time left did she have?

Hours? Days? Weeks? Months?

While he would never stop hoping she was alive, Garret also knew that being alive meant she was suffering. He had no idea what her relationship with the man had been like when she’d been dating Derek, there had been no reason at the time to ask about it, the man hadn’t abducted her for no reason.

Staring down at the body, Garret knew this was Calico’s fate if he couldn’t find her in time. Maybe Dr Daniels wouldn’t slice through her neck but he’d kill her just the same.

“We got a call,” Tony rushed up beside him. His partner was a good friend, bringing him to the site despite him not even officially being released from the hospital much less back at work.

“Who? What?” Fear churned in his get. Had her body been found? Was it already too late to save her?

“Someone just called in seeing a woman climb out a second story window of a house and up onto the roof.”

“And?” There had to be more than that if the message had been passed on to Tony.

“Description matches Calico.”