Chapter EightMike and Freddie were never interviewed by the police as they were never seen on Lover's Ridge. The two of them quietly returned to the old Spencer house and cleared away all their gear, wiped it down and left as quietly as those clouds drifted by. As far as I know Fraser Ughert never looked further than Job and me for either the murders of Solokov and Harmon, or anyone else in the apprehension of Frederick Mackinaw and the freeing of Melissa Iverson from his grasp.
I rode in the ambulance with Melissa to the hospital and almost threw up when under its lights I saw the sores and blisters on her lower leg. The foul-smelling discharge was as black as burnt coffee.
“There are highly effective antibiotics available nowadays, but her infection is severe. It's a virulent strain of
