#CHAPTER 21: Clues

Sarah POV “Someone else?” I asked. “This is a murder?” Agent Travis asked at the same time. Zane nodded to both of us. “Could it be someone other than the murderer?” Agent Travis asked. “Perhaps someone else just found the body before us.” “No,” Zane said. He closed his eyes, breathing in deeply through his nose, then opened them. “The scent is hollow.” Agent Travis nodded, but Zane could see I was confused. “It’s an artificial scent,” he explained. “Some wolves can mask their scent with a secondary odor, and while I’m picking up something underneath, something natural, it’s muddled by this other scent.” He sniffed gently at the air. “The hollow scent smells female, which makes me think it might be a man, or perhaps just a double-bluffing woman.” Agent Travis nodded and turned away to pull out his phone. I knew he was contacting the police because his talk was full of numbered codes. I was more interested in how Zane was looking at the cottage as though his eyes could