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become a beautiful woman, her long, blonde hair hanging straight and glossy to her waist, a matching brown headband keeping the golden locks out of her face.
    “Okay, Madison. Start with what you’re comfortable relating to me. I’ll ask questions if I need more, or if I need clarification.”
    She took a deep breath, her voice small and timid. “I was working at my job. I have a silly cashier job at the drugstore up the road — Buchanan’s. I went to the back room because I needed a case of cigarettes for the front counter. Zack was back there. He’s the guy in the back who does the receiving from the delivery trucks and he helps to stocks shelves. I don’t like him. He just seems skeevy somehow.”
    “What’s his last name?”
    “Fent. Zack Fent.”
    Cade typed his name into the police report. “Continue.”
    “Well, when I went to the back room, he was talking to a strange guy and they said something about giving this girl the date rape drug and… both of them raping her over the weekend. Zack was looking to get more of the drug from this guy.”
    Cade typed quickly on his laptop, trying to keep up. He paused, leaning back in his chair, twirling his pen in his mouth. “Okay, Sunni. Did you get a good look at the guy he had been talking to? At all?”
    “Well, a little. I mean, it’s always dark back there, but the receiving door had been open and Zack was receiving a delivery from him for the store.”
    “Great.” Cade leaned forward, typing on the laptop. Sunni had definitely remembered some important details. “Did you happen to see the name on the truck?”
    “It was a gray truck with green writing. I think it said Thompson Trucking. He was a tall guy with long brown hair, kinda curly with a beard and moustache.” She was looking to her right at a spot on the floor, apparently visualizing the individual. “He had glasses. I think they are dark rimmed — no, wait — they were kinda silver-wired glasses. Not sunglasses, but the reading kind.”
    “That should be enough of a description for me to contact the company and see who drove the truck that made a delivery to Buchanan’s Drugstore today. Did they see you come in?”
    At that question, her eyes widened, and she wrung her hands. She looked like the little frightened, lonely girl that used to visit as a child. “Sweetie. You’re safe here. I promise.” He clasped her cold, small hands in one of his, rubbing them to warm them up. “Did they see you listening?”
    “Yes, Sir.”
    With that bit of news, he knew the situation just got more dangerous. He’d need to keep her safe and out of the way for a few weeks, or at least until he could throw the two scumbags in jail. “Madison, this is important. What did they say when they knew you’d overheard them?”
    Her long, slender neck visibly worked as she swallowed. “Well, Zack turned and said, ‘Bitch what the fuck are you doing back here?’ and then his friend whispered something to him. I couldn’t make out all of it, but I did hear ‘get rid of her.’ At that point, Zack shouted ‘Shut the fuck up, Jared!’”
    She brightened for a moment. “That’s it! Jared is the other guy’s name.”
    “Good girl. I’m marking it down. Is that when you ran to the trooper station? Or did you finish your shift?”
    “I ran. I knew Jared meant to hurt me. I could see it on his face. I didn’t want to wait until we left work at the same time.” Those blue eyes filled with tears and her hands began to tremble. “I don’t know what I’m going to do. How will I go back to my apartment?”
    “Normally, we’d have a trooper keeping track of you, assuring your safety, but I’ve known you too long to rely on that.” Cade took a deep breath. He just wanted to keep her out of the fray for as long as possible. He’d been following these men for suspected rape for a while now. The State Patrol were closing in, and with this information, an arrest would be happening within the next