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girl born and mostly raised until her family moved to Manhattan. Then she had gone off to college in Arizona from what he had been told. Amber had said she was trying to get scheduled to do her residency requirements in Montana since she thought she had a better chance of working with the kind of animals she wanted to work with. He had talked to Olivia and he hadn’t heard a hint of southern in her voice ever. If it wasn’t her then who had put in the call? And why hadn’t they come forward to identify the guy who did this?
    From what his father had told him the guy who had the room for the week hadn’t been seen coming back into the hotel, but apparently the front desk clerk was swamped with the mid morning rush of checkouts and he wouldn’t have seen much of anything beyond the line of people at the front desk. Apparently front desk clerk number two had called in sick last minute so they were understaffed and extremely busy.
    Since the temporary resident of the room his sister was murdered in hadn’t been seen since the murder he was high on the list of suspects in Chogan’s mind. In fact, he was the number one suspect because who pays over a grand a night for a room and then just walk out without checking out or ever returning?
    “Have the cops even bothered to look for him? Have they even bothered to get a description of the guy out there?”
    “First,” his father tossed up his hands. “They say nobody is really sure what he looks like. Apparently he checked in during a rush and never made much of a fuss at the front desk. The clerk who checked him in is gone on an extended vacation so they can’t question her—as if she would really remember unless he was just one of those guys who had looks you don’t forget. Second,” he slumped in the recliner. “They don’t seem to know who they’re looking for. The room was booked under a corporate account to a company that apparently doesn’t even exist. The only reason I know this is because one of the detectives let it slip before the other one could shut him up. Now they’re not telling us much of anything.”
    “I see,” he mumbled. “I have friends in high places. I’m going to contact somebody and see if I can get somebody to force some answers out of these cops.” He was going to reach out to Autumn Kitsap, head of the Special Conditions Witness Protection program and see if she could use her pull to help him out. He had helped her out on a mission once before and she had said if he needed anything to let her know…well, now he was going to have to call in that open invitation favor because he needed full access, and he needed it now. If he couldn’t get help from her end then he would reach higher up. He had done a lot of things for a lot of people during his military career and maybe now he was going to see if those people would keep their word or if they were just blowing smoke out of their mouth when they promised to never forget, and to help him if he needed anything.
    “Would you all mind if I shower?”
    “Have we ever minded if you showered?” His father’s curt response told Chogan just how exhausted and near volcanic his father was. “Go on,” he tried to steady his voice. “Your mother cooked earlier. It seems to be the only thing keeping her from losing her mind right now.”
    He nodded. She and Amber were closer than mother and daughter. They were like best friends who seemed to grow closer to each other with each passing day. The older Amber got the deeper their friendship grew. To lose a daughter and a friend could drive anybody with a heart to madness. He knew losing his sister and not knowing where the hell Olivia was seemed to be driving him to near madness. Only his madness wasn’t threatening to make him fall apart. He was on the edge of raising the war flag and forgetting the law, forgetting what might be deemed right. Life for a life is what those Christians had said their God had once dictated and he was ready to