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Reaching her door, I didn’t use the key. I knocked—a polite knock, two raps.
Maybe this was a joke, and I’d played right into her hand by flying off the handle?
She had looked hurt when I told her she couldn’t come to dinner with Dad—and good thing she hadn’t come along. Dad had been his own brand of asshole tonight.
Was this a sick test of my feelings to get back at me for not bringing her along?
I banished that idea instantly.
Kelly wasn’t sadistic, and this note tore my heart out. Joke made more sense—mean joke, but she probably hadn’t realized how strongly I’d react. She wouldn’t be intentionally mean.
With no answer, I knocked again, and harder. “Kelly, we have to talk.”
One of her neighbors walked by.
I pounded harder on the door. “Kelly, let me in. We have to talk.” A few seconds later, I heard sounds from inside.
“Please go away. There’s nothing to talk about.”
My hope that this was a joke, or even a test, evaporated.
Nothing to talk about?Fuck that. There was a ton to talk about, starting with whatever brought this on.
“I don’t understand.” My brain went into overdrive, analyzing everything I’d said to her today and coming up empty.
It wasn’t her birthday, was it? No, that was six months away.
It took a while for her to say anything. “It was fun, Adam. We’re done. We both need to move on. That’s all I have to say.”
What the hell didit was funmean? Yesterday we’d been talking about the future and tonight she wanted to end it?
“I’m not leaving until you talk to me.”
Only silence came back from inside.
“Kelly?”
When she didn’t answer, I leaned my head against the door to listen.
An MPD cruiser pulled up with its lights flashing. The pair of officers climbed out and started toward me. The short one had his hand on the butt of his gun. “Sir,” he called out. “Move away from the door.”
I left the entry and pulled out my credentials. “FBI,” I said as I reached them.
“We need you to step away from the house,” the tall one said.
His nametag read Jones, the other was Walker.
“I’m just here to see my girlfriend.”
Walker made his way toward Kelly’s door.
Jones pointed to the street. “The sidewalk, sir.” He followed me there.
“Did she call you?” I asked.
“No. A concerned neighbor.”
Kelly opened the door for Officer Walker.
