Sunday, 24/08
08:50
Detective Roman Parker looked over the bags in the trunk of his car, noting that four of the five belonged to Valerie and only one to Michael. Roman pursed his lips.
The woman packed like she was going away for a month.
Moving back, Roman reached an arm up to close the trunk.
“One more,” muttered a quiet voice beside him.
Glancing toward the sidewalk, Roman watched Michael approach with a small bag in his hands. Roman raised a brow and the kid gave a bored shrug.
“Miss Val forgot it in the bathroom.”
Throwing a glance at the back of Valerie’s hooded head through the open trunk, Roman took the bag and added it to the others.
Wordlessly, he reached up to close the trunk as his mind whizzed through the list of things he had to get done.
It was already five days
