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“No,” Diandra said “I’ve never seen this man before Who is he?”
I shook my head “I don’t know Eric?”
Eric looked at the photo for a long time, eventually shook his head “No” He handed it back to ain
Angie said, “Doctor Warren, in over a week, this is all we’ve come up with Jason’s social circle is pretty limited and until this day, exclusively female”
She nodded, then tapped the head of Jason’s friend with her finger “Are they lovers?”
I looked at Angie She looked at me
“Come now, Mr Kenzie, you don’t think I know about Jason’s sexuality? He’s my son”
“So he’s open about it?” I said
“Hardly He’s never spoken to me about it, but I’ve known, I think, since he was a child And I’ve let him know that I have absolutely no problem with homosexuality or bisexuality or any possible per the possibility of his own But I still think he’s either embarrassed or confused by his sexuality” She tapped the photo again “Is this man a threat?”
“We don’t have any reason to think so”
She lit a cigarette, leaned back in her couch and watched me “So where does that leave us?”
“You’ve received no more threats or photos in the mail?”
“No”
“Then I don’t see that we’re doingyour money, Doctor Warren”
She looked at Eric and he shrugged
She turned back toward us “Jason and I are going up to a house we have in New Hampshire for the weekend
When we co Jason for just a few more days, put a mother’s mind at rest?”
“Sure”
Friday ie called to say Diandra had picked up Jason and left for New Ha and nothing had happened No threats, no suspicious characters lurking outside his doroatee
We’d worked our asses off trying to identify the guy with the goatee, but it was as if he’d come from mist and to mist he’d returned He wasn’t a student or teacher at Bryce He didn’t work at any of the establishments in a ie’s run his face through a computer for a felon match, and come up e had been more than cordial, there was no reason to consider him a threat, so we decided to keep our eyes open until he popped back up again Maybe he was froe