CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Mackenzie returned to Seattle at 6:12 that evening. It was drizzling rain yet again but it did not bother her as much as it had the day before. As she walked into the police department with the bag Debbie Barker had given her, she felt like they finally had a path to follow. Of course, they had no idea how to truly travel down that path, but at least it gave them a clear avenue to pursue.
She found Ellington in the tiny conference room they were working out of. He was standing in front of a dry erase board where he had pinned a geographical map of the area and penned the names of the storage facilities. At the small table, Deputy Rising and another policeman sat with papers and files scattered around the table.
It was awkward to have them there. Mackenzie’s first reacti
