Hey, beautiful – I just got a fantastic lead. Somebody the profiler knows in the FBI wants to meet with us, but off the record. I’m sending the car for you right now. Hodge will take you to an art gallery in Chelsea. See you soon.
I grab my jacket and the key to the penthouse and set out for downstairs.
12
Hodge drives up just as I exit the building.
“Hi Hodge.”
“Miss Saunders,” he replies in his upper-crust British accent.
“Do you know where we’re going? I only know it’s an art gallery in Chelsea.”
“Yes, Mr. Carlson texted me the address.”
I get in the backseat of the Rolls and watch the New York City streets creep by as we wind our way through traffic.
About 20 minutes later, we stop in front of an industrial loft-looking building. Hodge gets out and holds the door open for me.
I call Grant’s number but it goes straight to voicemail.
Immediately a text comes in. FBI guy doesn’t want me answering the phone. Security concerns with recording or whatever. Go right in, the front door’s open. I paid the owner to clear the building; we’re on the third floor.
I walk in the front door and let it shut behind me.
The gallery is amazing. It’s a huge four-story space, with an open atrium and levels that circle around it. The lights are off except for a few single white emergency lights on the fourth-floor ceiling above the main lobby. There’s no skylight, so the entire place is pretty dark, but I can see paintings on the walls closest to the central chamber.
Perfect place to meet a modern-day Deep Throat.
The Pentagon Papers version, not the Linda Lovelace version, mind you.
The elevator area at the far end of the atrium is lit. I walk over and hit the button. Ding. I get inside and push ‘3,’ then exit on the third floor.
I walk out into a dim foyer that leads into a maze-like jumble of hallways, each showing off paintings of geometric shapes and indistinct blurs of color.
Everything is dark. Only the tiny emergency lights are on. There’s one every 20 feet or so, which is barely enough to see anything.
It’s kind of creepy.
Actually, it’s really creepy.
“Grant?” I call out as I walk through the maze.
No answer.
“Grant!” I call out again.
A voice I’ve never heard before floats out from somewhere inside the maze.
Male.
Probably in his 40’s.
Cultured. Refined. Educated.
“Grant’s not here, Ms. Saunders.”
My blood freezes in my veins as I realize who’s in the art gallery with me.
The killer.
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