Page 85 of Killing Mind

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The boss had told her earlier not to deviate from her tasks and she wasn’t going to. Well, not for long, anyway.

She searched for the group again. No result. She tried again. Nothing. Damn, either the group had changed its setting to ‘secret’ or had been closed down completely.

She logged into the fake profile she’d made the day before and accessed her messages. The terse response from Penny Hicks was still there telling her, or Eric Leland, to fuck off.

Stacey stared at the screen and tapped her chin.

She’d tried every devious method she could think of to infiltrate this group to learn more about Unity Farm, except for one. Honesty.

She clicked on the bar at the bottom of Penny’s response and typed.

May I be honest about who I am?

Stacey watched as the blue circle with a tick appeared. Message delivered.

The photo of a plain blue sky dropped down. Message read.

Three dots. Typing.

Stacey readied herself to be told again to go away.

Yes

came the response.

I’m a police officer investigating the murder of two people linked to Unity Farm.

Three dots.

Names?

Stacey hesitated.

Samantha Brown and Tyler Short

Tyler’s dead?

You know him?

Stacey asked, quickly.

Yes

Were you at Unity Farm at the same time?

Yes

Did Tyler follow Sammy into the cult?

Yes

Because he was in love with her?

Yes

Did he leave because she was gone?

Not straight away

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