Reckoning - 19. Chapter 19

Adam waited as the two detectives studied the head, and he studied the alley. He stepped back looking up at his window and wonder how someone tossed a human head so high. But then he remembered what Patrick told him of the person in Gavin Martin’s bathroom. The head tossed from Gavin’s window makes sense. He moved to where the head laid. It was an adult head with short spike blue hair. A single earring of a cross dangled across the bloody cheek. Artie used his pen to turn the head over where they discover the face disfigured. Someone bashed the face in to where they couldn’t tell if it was a man’s or woman’s.

“Man,” Artie said. “Someone went to town on this.”

“There’s a lot of blood.” AJ said.

“Too much.”

“Which means the crime happened somewhere around here and the person or persons took the body.”

“Or the body is nearby,” Adam said.

“That’s more likely,” Artie said.

“Did you just agree with me?” Adam asked.

“Don’t let it go to your head. I’ll call it in. Potter you and Detective Chance can search the area.” Artie pulled out his cell, leaving Adam with his ex-lover.

“And he’s trusting me with his partner. I’m two for two. What did I do to be bestow his honor?”

“It’s just his way in apologizing for being insensitive back at the morgue.”

“I need nothing from him.”

“Adam. What me and Artie did to you…”

“AJ, enough. It’s over and I moved on. With Patrick.” Adam started down the alley as AJ fell into step beside him.

“How is he?”

“Who?”

“Patrick, who else?”

“He’s fine.”

“How’s he taking the murders?”

“What? Why would I share this with him?”

“It happened to two people he hung out with.”

“Two people who degraded him for fun. I doubt he’d care.”

“Considering it has a link with the Gavin Martin case?”

“How? Nothing connecting them.”

“Adam Paul came to you for help because of Peter’s death.”

“So?”

“Adam how did Paul find out about Peter’s death? The police had no official release.”

“The killer told him.”

“Right. Someone’s taking revenge on the people who knew Gavin.”

“AJ,” Artie called walking up.

Adam stepped away and walked back towards the alley’s exit and saw a photograph on the ground. He moved closer and noticed it was a photo of a geisha.