Chapter 24As Tyler continued to walk through town, he tried to focus on all the items stuffed into the shop windows. It was as if each lay empty, he was too caught up in his head to actually see. His stomach roiled, and his mind raced. He could only hope when Jarod spoke to the detective, he would tell Jarod it was his overactive imagination, and nothing more, drawing similarities between the two cases. Tyler doubted the thought as soon as it crept into his head. Jarod seemed too sure of his suspicions, and he wasn’t the type to jump to conclusions and make a claim like that if he didn’t believe it, deep down in his soul, to be true.
So knowing he had to come forward, Tyler prayed the police wouldn’t run a check on him. And if they did, maybe he’d be able to move on before they discovered
