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If Nathan had known that his friend was there and looking for him, he might have returned to the hotel. He didn’t expect her for several hours, though, so after his interview with Constable Havers he decided to take advantage of it being another hot and sunny day to go for a walk along the river, this time heading in the opposite direction to where he had gone yesterday.
Even if he had wanted to return to the woods in search of the ocelots, he couldn’t have; the police had much of the woods in the immediate vicinity of the hotel cordoned off while the investigation into Tracey Pierson’s death continued. He hadn’t seen much evidence of an investigation beyond the tape warning people to stay away from the area, but he suspected that that was because Constable Havers appeared to be on his
