FASHION AND CRIME
She always gave the same answer, with a smile and a shrug: “I’m Ashley Stevens. I work in fashion retail. It’s just a name I liked.”
But it was a lie.
And they were lying too.
Kamala opened her laptop and started going through her notes. She typed in the names they had given her; Derrick Solan, Tina Raynes, Miguel Brown, Sammy Lutz.
But nothing showed up, they were not on social media, and there were no records or photos about them.
Kamala knew instantly that they were fake names, and she frowned.
“They’re ghosts,” she muttered.
Her eyes moved to the shirt that she had hung over the back of her chair. She stood, picked it up, and stared at it for a while.