A Trail of Lies by Kylie Logan

Author:Kylie Logan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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She hated herself for being a weenie, but Jazz didn’t go right home. After she exited the freeway, she drove in the opposite direction of her house, went around two blocks that were totally out of the way, and finally stopped in a library parking lot just to watch the street and see who drove by, who might have been waiting for her to leave.

Finally satisfied Gerchek had followed her only so far, she went home, and the first thing she did when she got there was give Wally a hug.

“I guess I’m a chicken,” she confessed. His absolution consisted of a sloppy kiss on her cheek. “I just don’t like the thought of some guy out there…” Automatically, her gaze skewed to the front windows, but as usual at that time on a Tuesday evening, her street was quiet. There were kids playing catch in the parking lot of the school across the street and Mrs. Mueller from two houses away was doing her evening parade up and down the sidewalk, tallying what she didn’t like about her neighbors’ properties so she could report it to the block club.

But no motorcycles.

No Marcus Gerchek.

“Good thing I’ve got a big, brave dog to take care of me.” Just to show him how much she appreciated it, she went to the treat jar and got Wally a cookie he wasn’t expecting, not before dinner.

“We’ve got some work to do, bud,” she told him, and after she’d taken him for a walk and fed him she got down to it.

Again the internet was her savior. It’s amazing how many high school yearbooks are online, and by doing a little math (how old Mansfield was, when he must have graduated) and a little more digging into his background to find what neighborhood he lived in and which schools served it, she came up with the answer.

A few minutes later, a picture of fresh-faced high school senior Dan Mansfield looked back at her from her computer screen.

Could he have been Nick’s father?

On the yes side, Nick had the same light hair and eyes.

On the no side … Nick could be plenty tough. He had to be. But even when he was working, there was never a hardness to his eyes, never the kind of unshakable anger that simmered even in young Dan Mansfield’s expression.

She wondered what his growing-up years had been like, what had put him on a path that ended up with him dead in Kim’s yard.

But that—she gave her shoulders a shake and reached for the lemonade she’d poured to get the sour taste of her encounter with Gerchek out of her mouth—that wasn’t what she was looking for. The senior class pictures were arranged in the yearbook alphabetically and she started with A and scanned the paragraphs of type beneath each one, looking for a student who may have listed that he hoped to become a minister.

She didn’t have to look far.

There he was in the Cs, and she could forgive Marcus Gerchek for saying the man was a minister.

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