Chapter thirty-eight INVESTIGATING LEADS Jesse parked his car by the kerb and bowed his head over the steering wheel in deep thought. He couldn’t stop picturing Gabriella’s stricken face when she’d received that text message about the roses. He assumed she’d notified the police the next day, and knew that Octavia was visiting with Gabriella after he’d messaged her to check in. He wondered if they were talking about the latest murder, which was victim number three if it was the same killer. He sighed with relief that Derek was no longer a person of interest, but something was still going on with him. Jesse still wondered about what had happened between him and Erica, and he planned to coax it out of his friend after he finished with today’s visit. In his dreams, he couldn’t stop thinking

