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“I know her,” Claire told her partners as soon as she walked up to the small conference table they were sharing.
“You know who?” asked Dennis.
“The clerk at Tiffany’s,” Claire answered. “I thought that ‘Teme’ was an uncommon first name for a girl, and I had only known one other girl with that same name, so I did some digging through public records on Sunday and found out that she is the same Teme that I know. She is still using her married name even though her divorce was final last March.”
“So how do you know her?” asked Tyler.
Claire took her laptop out of her bag and set it up on the conference table as she explained, “Teme Greer, which is Teme Cortez’s maiden name, lost both her parents in a traffic accident when she was fifteen. The Clayton family that lives next door to my parent’s house in Redlands became her foster parents until she turned eighteen. I was away at college during most of that time, but I met her on several occasions. My younger brother Gary took her to the prom.”
“Do you think you could use this familiarity to get her to tell us more than she told the Sheriff’s detectives?” asked Tyler.
“I already have,” Claire told them. “I called the Claytons to get her cell phone number, even though I already had it in the reports. I wanted to establish a connection other than the case as the reason for me calling her. We spoke last night and agreed to meet at her place today before her shift starts at noon.”
“Great work,” said Dennis. “So, she doesn’t know that you are working on the case and you will use your history to try and get her to reveal something that she held back in previous interviews. I assume that you want to meet with her alone.”
“Exactly. Let me fill you both in though on what I already learned from her.”
Dennis and Tyler both lowered the screens on their laptops and gave Claire their full attention.
“First of all, I remember the Teme next door to my parent’s house having perfect vision. I remember because I had laid out by the pool with her a few times over summer breaks and she used to point out the shapes that she would see in the clouds, or spot airplanes high up in the sky that were barely visible to the naked eye.”
“So, unless her vision changed drastically, she didn’t need corrective lenses,” said Tyler
“Precisely. This is confirmed through a check with the DMV. Her driver’s license does not state that she must wear corrective lenses while driving. Someone who was a near-sighted as she claimed in her interviews would never pass the eye test at the DMV without glasses or contacts.”
“Interesting that the Sheriff’s guys didn’t confirm that with the DMV, or if they did, they made no note of it in the reports,” said Dennis. “What else?”
“Teme didn’t come right out and say that she saw the woman clearly, but things that she did say implied it.”
“Like what?” asked Dennis.
“She asked if I ever read an article in Cosmopolitan magazine from the early seventies that documented clinical trials by several psychologists on male/female attraction. Apparently, this article mentioned that certain men evoke a stronger physiological reaction from women than others due to factors beyond just their physical appearance. The psychologists theorized that certain men emit hormones or other sensory triggers that literally can cause a woman to start ovulating when in their presence.”
“Is she saying that our mystery woman is really a man?” asked Tyler. “I don’t buy that for a minute.”
“No,” said Claire, “she was merely using that study as a possible explanation for how she could best describe the woman. She said that if some men can make a woman ovulate simply by being nearby, then this woman would have the same effect in reverse on men. Whatever the male physiological comparison is to a woman’s ovulation, she said this woman would trigger it.”
“So, she thought this woman was sexy?” asked Dennis. “Was she attracted to her?”
Claire nodded and said, “Teme actually admitted that she has never been attracted to another woman, but this one literally made her question her own sexuality. That’s how she put it. She didn’t describe any of her features in detail but rather used a lot of adjectives such as ‘innocent’, ‘seductive’, ‘pure’, ‘temptress’, and ‘radiant’. I asked about the conflicting terms and Teme told me that the woman was all those things in one package. She also said that the woman had the most seductive voice that she had ever heard; deeper than most women, yet almost musical in its tone. Teme said the woman’s laugh made her knees weak, it was so alluring. Another gauge of her eyesight not being deficient is the fact that she said the woman stood about five foot ten and she estimated her bras size as 34C and guessed that she probably wore a size two dress.”
“Do you think that you can get more out of her when you meet, maybe even get her to agree to a sketch?” Tyler asked. He was reflecting on how the clerk had described the woman and agreed with many of her observations from his brief view of the woman on the video.
“I asked her if she had ever been asked to describe the woman to a sketch artist and Teme almost clammed up on me. I was finally able to get her to tell me that she couldn’t do that. When I asked why all she would tell me was that two very big men with very big badges and even bigger guns were waiting for her at her apartment when she had gotten home from work the day of the shooting and told her to forget what the woman looked like or she would end up someplace like Guantanamo Bay. I am going to try and get some more descriptive features today, and offer her protection if she’ll do a sketch, but I don’t know how successful I will be.”
“Use your best judgment,” Tyler told her. “If nothing else, try to get her to agree that if we have a suspect, she will at least look at a line-up for us.”
“I’ll do that,” Claire said. “Now what do you guys have that’s new?”
Tyler spoke first, “It’s taken a while, but my contact at the DMV was able to verify that only 151 Corvette Grand Sport convertibles were manufactured in 2017. We have requested information on all those purchases from General Motors and should have it by the end of the day. The DMV only has identified fifteen possible matches in their records for California registrations. I expect to receive copies of the registrations on all these within the hour. What about you, Dennis?”
“I have some feelers out, but nothing yet,” he said. “Claire, maybe you can ask the clerk if she noticed which agency the ‘big badges’ were from. That could provide me with a starting point.”
“It’s already on my list,” Claire confirmed. “Do you guys want to meet back here, say at two this afternoon for another update from each?”
Tyler checked the time and said, “That works for me. It gives me time to try to have lunch with someone.”
He walked back to his desk and called Katie on her cell phone. It rang twice before she answered, and Tyler could tell that she was someplace noisy.
“Hi Tyler, I was going to call you once I got past the security checkpoints, but you beat me to it.”
“Are you at the airport?” he asked.
“Yes, and I need to hang up right now, but I’ll call you back in a few minutes. Will that be okay?”
“Of course. I’ll be waiting for your call.”
Tyler heard her disconnect their call and then laid his cellphone on his desk next to his laptop. He stared at the screensaver on the laptop’s display as he considered how his anxiousness to speak with Katie had just been elevated by at least ten-fold.
While he had looked forward to speaking with her and asking her to meet him someplace for lunch, now he was more concerned with learning what had happened since he had kissed her at her door this morning to find her now at the airport, preparing to fly someplace unknown to him.
As had been the case every night for the past week, when he had reluctantly left Katie’s condo, it had been with a promise to come over this morning before he left for work to have a cup of coffee with her. He had kept his promise, surprised and delighted to find Katie once more wearing nothing more than his former dress shirt. Damn, it sure looked good on her.
Katie had obviously been awake for a while before he had arrived since in addition to having coffee ready for them, she had also baked blueberry muffins, which he realized were fresh out of the oven. She had been so much more open and revealing about herself since their first weekend, and she regaled him over coffee and muffins with stories about her and Cile learning how to cook over the years in one of their homes or the other.
It didn’t seem to matter, because from how she described her childhood, the homes of the two cousins had been virtually interchangeable for them since they had been infants. Tyler had laughed when Katie had told him that after watching the ‘Cat in the Hat’ movie, she and Cile had started referring to their respective mothers as “Mom 1” and “Mom 2,” after the “Thing” characters from the book. If they were at Katie’s house, Katie’s mom was “Mom 1” and her aunt was “Mom 2”. If they were at Cile’s house, the mom numbers were switched.
Tyler saw the screen on his cell phone illuminate with Katie’s number before the first ring was heard. He picked it up and answered it, “Hi Katie. You made it through security pretty fast.”
“I have a PrePass ticket, so the line was shorter, and the process is much less involved,” she told him.
She couldn’t tell Tyler that she didn’t go through the typical TSA security checkpoints. She had to check in at the airport security office where they could verify her credentials and notify both the flight crew and any Sky Marshal on the same flight that there was another passenger authorized to be carrying a loaded weapon on a commercial aircraft.
“Sorry that I didn’t have a chance to speak to you earlier, but this whole trip is literally a spur of the moment thing.”
“Is everything okay,” Tyler asked.
“Oh sure, everything is fine. I just received an e-mail this morning from someone agreeing to sell me their 2006 SSR if I can meet with them and finalize the transaction tomorrow. They live in Olathe, Kansas so I am flying to Kansas City today.”
“What’s an SSR?” asked Tyler.
Katie laughed and said, “You should probably Google it. That way you’ll be able to see it rather than having me try to describe it.”
“Okay, hang on a second,” he said as he logged back onto his computer and initiated the search that she had suggested. It became obvious to him which meaning of ‘SSR’ would be of interest to Katie.
“I assume you’re referring to the Chevrolet SSR,” he said. “It’s a cool looking car, truck, or whatever it is.”
Katie laughed again, “It’s classified as a pick-up truck, but I doubt anyone uses it as such. If this one matches the description I saw of it, I will buy it and drive it back home. If things go as I hope, I’ll be on the road tomorrow morning and back to you by Friday night.”
“Why do you have to go all the way to Kansas for one of these SSR’s?” he asked. “Are they that hard to find?”
“2006 was the last year that the Chevrolet SSR was built. SSR stands for ‘Super Sport Roadster’ by the way. That model year has the best performance features and choice of options, but it was also the year with the fewest vehicles produced, so they are the rarest. I have been looking for one with specific features and the lowest mileage I can find. This one appears to meet all my expectations, and is even the silver color that I would prefer.”
Tyler was researching further as Katie explained her reason for the trip. He asked, “Wait a second, is it a convertible?”
The excitement in Katie’s voice was contagious, “Yes, it has a retractable hardtop roof. Perfect for sunny Southern California days, or maybe a romantic moonlight drive. Know anyone who might be interested in that?”
“Most definitely,” Tyler said with a chuckle. “I’m not real keen on you driving halfway across the country by yourself, though.”
Katie was silent for a moment before replying, “Your concern for me means more than you know, Tyler, but I’ll be fine. I’ve driven between Texas and California many times and know my limitations. However, on that note, I have left my route and itinerary on the counter in my kitchen for you, just so you know where I plan to be each day and where I intend to spend each night.”
“Now it is your consideration that means more than you know,” he told her. “Only one problem. I don’t have access to your place. How am I going to get to your itinerary?”
“Go to the touch panel outside my garage door and enter the letters that spell the word ‘Corvair’, which will be 2678247. The garage door will open. There is a key to the kitchen door under the back-left bumper of my truck. Once you’re in the kitchen, you will find your own remote and a set of keys for my home on the counter.”
Tyler heard an announcement being made in the background, “Is your flight boarding?”
Katie waited for the noise around her to lessen before answering, “They’re just making some pre-boarding announcements. The usual stuff. I have a few minutes yet.”
“So, my own set of keys,” Tyler said. “How many keys are we talking about?”
“Just the two,” said Katie. “The remote opens the front door and one of the keys fits all the other external locks to the condo, and I think you’ll figure out what the other one goes to. Tyler, I really meant what I said. I am going to prove to you that I trust you. I want you to know that if I am reluctant to share something with you, it is for some reason other than trust.”
“I understand that Katie, and I feel the same way about you. What can I do for you while you’re gone?”
“There’s not much really,” she said. “I think you already know what Sinbad needs each day from watching me, and what little mail I get will just hold in the box until I get home. The plants on the patio are on a timed drip system so they don’t need any attention. Oh, there is one thing you could do for me if you wouldn’t mind...”
“Sure, anything.”
“Before Friday, could you move my truck out of the center of the garage and park it in the farthest of the two spaces? If I drive the SSR back, I’ll want to park it closest to the kitchen door.”
“That makes sense,” he said. “Consider it done. What else?”
“You may have to move a few of the boxes that Cile and I were sorting through while she was here. I can’t remember if I picked all of them up off the floor when we were done.”
“Anyplace in particular that you want me to put the boxes?”
“Just put them on the workbench. I’ll put them on the right shelves this weekend.”
“I’m still not jazzed about you driving that far by yourself,” Tyler told her. “I wish I could come with you.”
Katie smiled again at both his concern as well as his desire to be with her. She had always thought that she would be annoyed by some guy wanting to coddle and protect her, but with Tyler, it was endearing.
“If you would like to take a road trip together,” she said, “maybe we can work something out. Cile wanted me to come home to Texas over the Labor Day weekend, and I was considering it. I had planned to fly if I went, but if you could get a few extra days off from work, I would love for us to drive the SSR out there together. You could meet my family and they could meet you. Interested?”
“Sure,” Tyler said. “I can take as much time off as we need, just let me know the days and what arrangements you want me to make for the trip.”
“Let me give it some thought,” she said. “I sure hope you know what you’re getting yourself into by agreeing to meet my family.”
“Would you feel any better if you met my family first? My parents have been bugging Taylor to let them visit the condo to see where we’re living, so say the word and I’ll arrange for them to come over this Saturday afternoon.”
“It won’t do much to alleviate my concerns over you meeting my family, but yes, I would love to meet your parents. There is something that you can do for me while I’m gone though...”
“Name it,” he said.
“I would like it if you broke up with Haley so that everyone knew it. I know that you said there was nothing but friendship between you two, but I don’t like the idea that some tabloid might identify me as ‘the other woman’ or something similar if we’re seen together in public. I want to be proud of you being my guy and me being your girl. Do you understand?”
“Wow!” Tyler said, “I was thinking the same thing. In fact, on my way into the office this morning I left a voicemail with Haley to call me so I could discuss that subject with her. I don’t think that she will have any objections, but it doesn’t matter to me if she does. It’s you and me now kid.”
“I like the sound of that. ‘You and me’.”
“Listen,” Tyler said. “Since I won’t have a chance to check your itinerary until later today, can you tell me now when you are due to arrive in Kansas City and where you’ll be staying tonight?”
“Of course,” she said. “I have to catch a connecting flight in Phoenix, which is then due to arrive into Kansas City tonight just before nine. I will then drive to Olathe, which is about an hour south of the airport. I should be checking into the Embassy Suites in Olathe between ten-thirty and eleven. I’ll call you when I land and again when I get to the hotel. Is that okay?”
“Definitely. I miss you already, so the more often we talk while you’re gone, the better.”
“I couldn’t agree more,” Katie said. “I’m missing you too. By the way, how long do you think your old shirt will last without being washed? I mean the scent of you on the shirt.”
Tyler laughed and said, “Well, I hope the smell of me isn’t gamey enough to linger that long. Plus, maybe I want you needing to be close to me rather than using an old shirt as a substitute.”
“Believe me, Buster, there is no substitute in my book for being close to you. I wish I could have convinced you to spend the night with me again.”
“Believe me, I am regretting it now more than ever.”
“They’re starting boarding,” Katie told him once the loudspeaker sound had ceased. “I’ll text you from Phoenix to keep you updated.”
“Katie, before you go, I want you to know that I feel the same way.”
“What way is that?”
“I think I’m falling in love with you too.”
“Tyler, I never doubted that. Let’s keep falling and see where we land. What do you say?”
“Geronimo!”
Katie laughed and said, “Geronimo to you too, you nut. Bye for now.”
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