25 Jace
The Next Day . . .
“Mr. McCall...It’s unseasonably warm out today, wouldn’t you say?”
When Jace turned around and saw the detective walking behind him, he cussed under his breath. “Sir, I’m at work; you can’t just run down on me like this.”
As Jace headed back to the FedEx truck after his delivery, detective Sims said, “You called me yesterday.” When Jace didn’t reply, he came back with, “I know it was you. Every call that goes out or comes into that station is electronically logged.” The detective took off his sunglasses. “Now, you called me yesterday but hung up. Why? What did you call me to say, Mr. McCall?”
Jace avoided eye contact when he said, “I musta called you by mistake.”
“You held the phone for over four minutes...” When Jace looked over at him, the detective said,
