Chapter 56. Tracks in the Sand

"How is it possible for her to escape? Nobody could walk by me in the room without me noticing them. Not even a roach. " In between his words, he took a step and killed a roach. He looked around the room, but there was no broken roof, wall, or window through which she could have fled.

"Do you think she might have passed..." Jordan gave a headshake. "Just forget it."

The man yelled, "Speak up, boy," and Jordan pointed to the coved hole that Jessie had just earlier passed through.

"Find her, she wouldn't have traveled very far." Jordan sprinted away when he yelled.

The man walked up to the hole and placed his hand there. He raised his hand to his nose and smelled the oily substance after noticing it. An ointment. He'd been deceived by Jordan. 

He got to his feet, reached for his gun that was hanging from his pants, and then left the room to look for Jessie. If the person who had ordered him to kill that woman discovered that she had escaped, he wo