Eleven Days: An Unexpected Love (38 page)

Chapter 25

7:28 a.m.

"Hey Sara how is my favorite crime scene tech t
his
bright and cheerful day
.
Do you have any news on the
sperm DNA we sent you from my beach house?"

She
ignored Mike flattering comment. Sara Potter
was
all business, and the guys knew
that
. Because
she
was
so serious they loved to give
her
a hard time. "We are processing it right now and
with
our new software, we can have finite results in six to seven days on the DNA. After looking at the specimen and it being older, it will be closer to the seven days. Then it might take several hours to match the perp to our data base. I'm sorry Mike
that
's the best I can do."

"What do you mean old sperm?"

"The sperm sent to me
was
at least a week old, minimum."

"It couldn't have been, we found it immediately and saw the footprints in the snow to verify it. The footprints were imprinted in the fresh snow right under the window."

"I'm sorry Mike, but I'm telling you it's arou
nd a week old." Sara always got
aggravated when they question
her
expertise. Never has
she
given them an answer until
she
is one hundred percent positive.

Mike sat there trying to think, comprehend what
she
just said.
"Do you have the blood type of the sperm?"

"Yes hold on
a minute
.
"
She
left to get the chart and came back and
she
picked up the phone. "The male blood type is AB+ and the female blood type is A+."

"What do you mean female?" Mike's
didn't
expecting
that
answer at all. The
state police missed
the female blood type
. He
was
glad he had Sara double check the state's results.

"The sperm collected has two distinctive blood types male and female." Sara
was
busy and
she
got annoyed Mike questioned
her
work.
If he kept t
his
up, it
would
be a long day.

"Sara, have you gotten the samples from the Border home?"

"Yes I think we did get some,"
she
answered while shuffling papers on
her
desk. "I don't have them in front of me. Let me call you back in a few minutes."

"No if you don't mind, I'll wait."

She
paused and thought a few minutes
would
n't be detrimental. Pushing the red hold button,
she
scoured through several offices before
she
found them.
She
picked up the phone and pushed the hold button so
she
could be reconnected
with
Mike. "I have them in front of me fresh off the press. What do you want to know?"

"I want to know t
he blood type of Ms. Border's?" He didn't know what answer he
would
be, but he had
a hunch.

"
Her
blood type is A+."

"What
was
the blood type around
her
mouth?"

"Um,
that
is B-."

"So according to your records, sperm is AB+, blood on mouth is B- and Ms. Borders blood typed is A+, and the female blood type
with
the sperm is A+?" Maybe Quent
was
right
,
and there are two perps.

"I see where you're going
with
t
his
. I'll run as many cross references as I can. Great work Mike."

"I have one more blood type for you to run, and maybe
her
DNA."

"Who?"

"
Lana
, can you send someone to collect it?"

"I'll call and see if anyone is at the Border's house and I'll have them get a swab."

"Thanks, Sara. One more thing, could you find out if Ms. Border's
was
raped? There might be two perps."

"I will find out for you and I'll notify you when I get any news."

"I'll be expecting your call," he answered while writing down all the information
she
gave him.

When
Lana
walked in the living room Mike
was
on the phone. Raymond and Joe were in the kitchen looking out the window towards the Borders house. They
debated on
who
got
to play the villain. Under normal circumstances they both
would
want to go, but it
was
cold outside, neither volunteered. They decided to flip a coin. When Raymond lost, he pulled rank and sent Joe.

Joe
whined
that
the coin toss
was
n't fair, but all the while smiling. Then he commented. "I can't wait until we get a new guy then I can pull rank."

All the guys laughed.

Lana
interrupted. "Hi guys, do
you all like some breakfast?"

They looked at each other a
nd said as the same time. "Yes ma'am
."

She
wondered how they stayed in such good shape eating out all the time. "Tell me what you want, and if one of you gentleman will run me to the grocery store, I will cook you a feast."

Mike got off the phone and answered
Lana
from the living room. "I want french toast."

The other two agreed, and they added bacon, ham, and eggs.

When
she
got to cook,
she
was
at
her
best."So who's going to take me to the store?"

Mike raised
his
hand. He felt much better about the situation. The killings seemed to be someone after the Borders.

She
walked over to him and put
her
arm through
his
arm and said. "Okay tin man let's follow the yellow brick road."

"We'll be back in about an hour or so." They were shocked Mike let
her
out of the house. But if anyone could handle any situation in the field it
would
be him.

Raymond immediately got on
his
walkie to let the men at the end of the road know Mike
was
coming through
shortly
. "Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know there's going to be a 204 in 1015."

Lana
knew they had codes and
she
asked Mike. "What's a 204 and a 1015?"

Mike winked at the guys. "Well I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."

"And what
would
be the code for
that
?"
She
asked as
she
raised
her
left eyebrow at Mike.

"
That
would
be code 007," said Mike. The men laughed hysterically.

"What's so funny?"
She
asked.

"Come on babe I'll tell you on the way to the store."
She
looked at the guys and shrugged
her
shoulders.

They laughed harder.

He helped
her
with
her
coat
, and when she glanced over at them they laughed even harder.
"You better tell me or you're not getting any breakfast."

The men laughed even harder.

They got in the car and
she
noticed Mike looked all around to see if he could see anyone.

"Okay Mike, what are the codes?" Curiosity got the best of
her
.

He rolled
his
head back
with
laughter. "Code 007 means hot girl
that
's dangerous. 204 code means we are traveling
with
two or more and a 1015 code means they will be coming
with
fifteen minutes. They were laughing because you are hot but not dangerous. Sometimes if we see a girl
that
looks hot, we'll get on the walkie and say 007 and then give our location."

"Oh, really!
Well you just wait until I bake you guys some brownies
with
ex-lax. Then my code will be number two. Then we'll see how dangerous I am."

"Oh no please don't do
that
, I
only have two bathrooms. W
e're getting close to the media, please
duck down
honey
." As they drove by a house
that
had a few TV vans no one
was
outside, but
she
got low so they couldn't see
her
.
She
stayed low for about a half a mile.

*****

Stop & Shop grocery store
was
much bigger than the Sam's grocery and much newer. T
his
store
was
in a strip mall
with
about ten other small shops. The biggest store
s were Best Buy,
a liquor store, shoe store, and a tobacco store.

They held hands as they walked in and acted as though they didn't have a care in the world. "Okay babe, what
would
you like besides french toast?"
She
asked.

"Um, I
'm
thinking ham and eggs, or maybe an omelet?
I loved the
omelet you cooked the other day." He didn't want to over exert
her
considering what happened yesterday.

"Babe you can have an omelet if you want one. We just have to go to the vegetable isle." The vegetable area
did
impressive
her
. It
was
fixed up like a huge Hawaiian hut
with
a hand written
sign
that
read
'veggie stand'
.

They shared the foods they like and
hated
. Mike teased
her
by asking
her
a question he already knew the answer. "
Do you think we could have
shrimp tonight or tomorrow
?
I know you don't like it, but the guys do."

"Hey, you are on your own if you want shrimp. I don't even like to cook it." Mike liked shrimp and so do the guys, and how could
she
refuse.
She
changed
her
mind. "Okay, I'll grill it if you do the prep work. I know the guys
would
like grilled shrimp. I'll marinade it in Italian dressing a couple of hours, it's delicious."

"
That
's a deal." He nearly ran to the fish counter to buy jumbo shrimp, and he
was
like a little kid.
His
mouth
started
watering just thinking about grilled shrimp.

Life
with
Lana
would
be so different than it
was
with
Kathy. Kathy didn't like to cook. When they first married they didn't have the money to eat out
much
. All they ate were hamburgers and chips. Since Kathy worked at a fast food,
her
burgers were great, but
that
was
the only thing
she
knew how to cook. Later when they had a little more money he
made it a point to
grab something on the way home
, something for
his
family to eat
. He smiled thinking back about
his
kid
s calling him at work and asked
. "Daddy, what will you bring home for dinner tonight?" Yep, life
would
a lot different
with
Lana
, a difference he
like
d
.