Chapters (28)
- Title page
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CHAPTER FIVE
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- CHAPTER NINE
- CHAPTER TEN
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- CHAPTER NINETEEN
- CHAPTER TWENTY
- CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
- CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
- CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
- CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
- CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
- EPILOGUE
Nicky's eyes narrowed. She was getting closer.
"Mr. Katz," Nicky said, "this is Meghan Salinger. She went missing six months ago. Are you sure you don't remember her?"
"I don't have any idea what you're talking about," Jordan said. "I have to go. You can't keep me here."
"Mr. Katz," Nicky said, "you're not going anywhere. You've been arrested for the kidnapping of Meghan Salinger."
"That's bullshit! You can't arrest me for that. I'm innocent! You don't have any evidence."
"You're not innocent," Ken said, "but you are going to tell us everything you know about Meghan Salinger's disappearance."
"You're not giving me a choice here, are you? Well, I hate to break it to you, but I dont know squat about this chick or what happened to her.
Ken leaned forward, staring into Jordan's eyes. "Is that so? Maybe it's time we revealed to you exactly what it is that's going to happen to you if you don't talk to us."
"I'm not even listening to you!" Jordan said. He raised his voice, looking around the room. "You can't keep me here!"
Nicky's patience was running thin. She took out the file with a photo of one of the other victims and flung it at Katz.
"This is Ella White. Do you remember her?"
"No!"
"What about Teresa Simmons? Do you remember her?"
Once again, Katz screamed, "No!"
"Well, Mr. Katz," Nicky said. "It's time to remember."
Ken slammed the file down on the table. It landed with a thud. "It's time you remembered."
"I'm not listening to you."
"Tell us what we need to know," Nicky said. "I guarantee that you're going to wish you were dead before it's all over if you don't."
"I'm not going to talk to you," Katz said, "because I don't know shit about any of these women!
"You do," Nicky said. "You matched with Meghan. You met her. But when you saw each other in real life, you didn't look like your photos, did you? And you're much older than you claim to be online."
Katz was sweating now, brown eyes flicking between Ken and Nicky. "That's not true."
"You're not getting out of this one," Nicky said. "We know everything we need to know about you, Mr. Katz. And I will tell you this: we know for a fact that you were going to kill Meghan Salinger, like you killed all these other women. Where's Meghan, Jordan?"
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
Nicky stopped herself from pushing on. Of course, turning on the aggression and acting like she already knew he was guilty was a tactic that worked in some cases, but not others. Here, she was desperate, and that was coming through in her work.
But there were also a couple things that didn't add up. For one, if he had Meghan, and abducted his new victim earlier today, why was he at a black-tie event?