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“My … Della?” No one had called her that, and Chase liked it.
“Yes. Or do you make out with any girl while you’re on a case?”
“No.” Chase smiled. “Just her.” Then he noticed Burnett’s expression. “Is something wrong?”
“Yes. She took the school’s car and is going to confront her dad.”
“About the murder?”
“Probably about everything.”
“It was bound to happen sooner or later. She’s pretty sure he knows she’s vampire,” Chase said.
Burnett shook his head. “Yeah, and her biggest fear is that he thinks she’s a monster. She doesn’t need to know how right she is.”
Burnett dialed a number. “Della’s on the loose, she’s trying to go see her father. Do you have him in your sights?”
“Yes,” Shawn said on the line.
“Della’s in a 2013 silver Corolla. Don’t let her talk to him. I’m heading that way just in case.”
Burnett hung up. “Let’s see if the little spitfire will answer me.”
Spitfire, Chase thought. Yeah, that was Della.
Chase heard it go to voice mail. “Della, I need to talk to you. Now!” Burnett growled. He looked at Chase. “Do you think she’d take a call from you?”
Considering their last few conversations, Chase doubted it, but he pulled out his phone. He left almost the same message.
He met Burnett’s gaze. “What do you know?”
Burnett started walking to Chase’s car. “I know that Della’s father is an idiot. And I know Della has a pissed-off ghost following her around.”
“What else?” Chase asked, knowing there was more.
Burnett frowned. “When I called to tell her father that Della needed to come back to school, he informed me that he didn’t want her coming back to his house again. Ever.”
Burnett raked a palm over his face in frustration. “Then yesterday he sent an anonymous email to the police naming Della as a suspect in the Chis’ murder. He gave the cops the name of the school.”
“Goddamn him!” Chase seethed, his eyes growing hot.
“So far they haven’t contacted us,” Burnett said, “but if the Chis’ case doesn’t get wrapped up quickly, they will.”
“Someone needs to teach him a lesson!” Chase said. “And I volunteer! Let’s go.” Chase stopped at his car. “Maybe that bastard did kill his sister!”
Burnett shook his head, and opened the locks but didn’t get in. “He didn’t. Something happened that night, however, that makes him think he did.” He exhaled and blinked as if trying to control his own anger.
“Believe me, I’ve looked under every rock, every leaf that man ever walked past. I’ve searched everywhere, hoping to find the smallest reason to beat the holy shit out of him!”
“How he treats Della isn’t enough reason?” Chase snapped.
“Yeah, but the kicker is that he’s a decent man. He’s a good husband, and until Della got turned, he was practically up for the father of the year award. Why else do you think she loves him so much?”
“But what about how he treats her now?”
“I know. I’d like to knock some sense into him too. But the only thing that makes sense is that her being turned somehow brought back all of these terrible memories. I think until then he either managed to forget or believe it was a dream. Now he’s scared. And not for himself, but for his family.”
“Then let’s not beat the crap out of him, let’s just talk to him.”
