Page 66 of Only You

“What?”

She shook her head and stepped closer to him. Soon, the door was shut, and Eddie was walking back in.

“What is Bryan doing here?”

“He was hanging with his cousin Allen when he got the call.”

“Who is Bryan?”

Eddie smiled. “One of Eileen’s many exes.”

“I don’t have that many exes, and we dated a decade ago when we were both at the academy.”

“She kicked his ass there and made detective before him.”

He filed that bit of information away.

“Are we done arguing that there is a connection?” Eddie asked.

“No. We are not.”

“Eileen, there is a pic of Norma. One that wasn’t in evidence.”

“Who even has Polaroids anymore?” she muttered as if lost in thought.

“Maybe the killer is one and the same. Maybe the same camera,” Eddie commented.

“This guy isn’t the doer for that one. Even if he had been just eighteen then, he would be in his mid-fifties.”

“He would physically be able to do it.”

“Yes, but think about it. Irene was a smart woman. She wouldn’t walk down the street with an older man like that. And from what the other people told us, she was dating someone.”

“Yeah, I heard a few of my crew talking about it,” Declan said.

“But no one saw him,” she said.

He nodded.

“This was a good guy. A guy with a job, not one staring down retirement. She had no daddy complex. This is not the same guy. Also, the women are different. Killers can change their MO, but that much?” She shook her head. “I don’t think so.”

“That’s worse.”

Her partner’s comment had him blinking.

When Eileen looked away from Francisco, Declan knew she agreed. “What am I missing?”

“Eileen?” Eddie asked, waving his hand.

He was going to let Eileen tell Declan.

“Eddie thinks that if he is obsessed with that crime, it might have something to do with me. Which is a possibility, but it could be that I’m the one on the case.”

Panic swamped him. He knew her job was dangerous, but having a serial killer obsessed with her? No. That was not acceptable.

“Most people have forgotten about that crime, Eileen.”

“No, they haven’t. My mother’s class just did a bunch of social media about it. They do it every damned year.”

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