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Chapter 362 - 362: Gone and forgotten.
Phoebe gave Tom a deliberate smirk and evil grin, she pointed to her eyes with two fingers and then turned them to him. It was the world famous 'I have got my eyes on you' sign.
Confusion engulfed Tom's entire being, was he in trouble for insulting a detective? What was going to happen to him now? Was she going to write his name in her little notebook and blacklist him? Perhaps she would craft up some fake charges on him just to teach him a lesson.
Did she know that he had smoked some weed the night before, would she put handcuffs on him and drag him to a police station where he would have to pee in a cup? The more he conjured up wild scenarios, the more panicked he became.
Within seconds, the back of his shirt showed wet stains, he was sweating. His shoulders shrunk and since he couldn't vanish into thin air, the least he could do was humble himself and scoot to hide behind the manager.
"You should have told us that you are a cop." The manager pulled his brows together to form a frown as he looked at Phoebe warily, wondering if someone had made some kind of health code violation report.
He also thought about the rest of the complaints that they had received lately, and he picked one that stood out from the pile of thirty.
"I hope that this has nothing to do with Mrs. Gwyneth Rowland's death, the police have already been here, and the investigation was closed. We were cleared completely, if you want to re-open the case, my statement and those of the employees are not changing." He stated furiously.
The woman had passed by the restaurant section of the supermarket an hour before her death and there was a lot of speculation about what caused her to die. She was healthy, a faithful daily jogger, she had attended the auction last night, bought some food in the restaurant and when she reached her house, she fainted and died suddenly.
The police had been to the supermarket restaurant, and they questioned the employees on what she bought and anything she could have eaten. They even took food samples to ensure that she had not been poisoned.
That was not enough, they wanted to know who she talked to, what she said, if she got any phone call that they happened to overhear and took security footage for the entire day as if a hidden killer had been laying in wait and struck when she was relaxed, doing some shopping.
The name sounded familiar to Phoebe's ears; she knew just one Rowland family in the neighborhood. They were a self-made powerful political family in Fog country, from that lineage alone had come a few ministers and governors even the current presidential secretary was a Rowland.
Phoebe had heard about the death through Maria, she looked at Shark knowingly, if she had to guess, it was probably a case that he was working on, it was his cup of tea.
Shaking his head, Shark looked around and replied, "We are not here on the Rowland case, we won't be back unless there are any new developments. Is there something about that case which you wish to add?"
His words put the manager at ease for he wiped away perspiration from his forehead and shook his head, he had nothing to add.
"Then what is this about?" Hardly had the words left the manager's mouth when sirens and honking sounds were heard outside. They could all see from inside that more police officers had arrived plus a team from the medical examiner's office.
It was no surprise to Phoebe to see that it was Claire, they always worked together on cases.
"What the hell is going on?" The manager asked, his eyes laced with worry.
To answer his question, Shark reached inside his coat pocket and extracted a folded paper. "Here, you will understand more when you read this, it is a
Shark expelled a sharp sigh. "Behind those freezers is the body of Reid Fisher. Does any of you remember him? He was your co-worker, won employee of the month more that everyone else."
Murmurs erupted among the employees; the manager's hand rose to touch his forehead. "Reid is dead?" The weight of Shark's words pressed heavily on his chest. "How? When? I thought that he probably found something better after he disappeared.
Look is there some kind of mistake, I mean I would know if he was here, I am going to tell you the same thing I told his parents when they came here in search of him, he isn't here." he said slowly.
Phoebe let out a short sigh. "They came to the right place because Reid died, and his body has been behind those freezers all this time." She stated.
"My God!" Tom's knees became watery, he crumbled to the floor. "Behind the freezers, how?" He added a question.
"You know everything exactly how Tom, the night the two of you last sat up there, he accidentally fell and got trapped behind the freezers. Didn't you hear him screaming at all?" Phoebe narrowed her eyes at him.
Tom was really shocked, his horrified eyes stared back at Phoebe.
"No...I... it's not my fault, okay. When I came back from the store he was gone, so I moved to the counter and wore my headsets. I never heard from him since then I just figured he left the job." Tom stammered as he explained.