Late afternoon of the day of the service, Jack went looking for Chad. He hadn’t planned on disturbing him that day. Not in person. He had intended to call him later in the day, because he just couldn’t get the man out of his mind.
But then the officer he had watching the house mentioned that Chad came back from the service and left again on a bicycle. He’d managed to give the officer the slip, too.
Jack didn’t know where to search for the man, but when he questioned Magdalena, the housekeeper mentioned where she thought he might have gone.
Sure enough when Jack pulled up to a little known beach a few blocks from Chad’s house, he spotted a bike lying in the sand. He turned off his car, got out, and shielded his eyes, watching for signs of the man himself.
He walked out on to the sand an
