Forty four

SCARLET POV

"We were just touring the province and got a little lost, so we parked and walked up to the house to ask for directions.... No one answered the door when we rang it".

The man nodded, noting down what I was saying. My guard stood behind me like a statue while the phone in my hand where the last message I'd received from Pierce burned into my skin.

It won't be long now, Scarlet. I am coming to get you.

Pushing the message from my mind, I focused my attention on the man I was talking to and tried to remember where I stopped.

"We were going to leave of course, but you see I have a very sensitive nose so I knew something wasn't quite right with the smell in the air, So I asked my guard to kick down the door... We went inside to investigate and that was when we found the body. We didn't touch anything once we found it, and then I called the cops immediately"

The man made a show of nodding along to my words and once he noticed that I was done with my recount, he slammed the boo