Beast by Kate Harre

Author:Kate Harre [Harre, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kate Harre
Published: 2014-02-11T05:00:00+00:00

Alex, who’d been holding his breath throughout the whole exchange, slumped back in his chair with an audible sigh of relief. Annie glanced over at him and grinned widely.

Chapter 12

‘My parents have basically grounded me until this murderer is caught,’ Mikayla announced glumly on Monday morning, the news of the second murder having spread like wildfire over the weekend.

‘Mine too,’ Caroline said with a feeling sigh. ‘The only exception is Prom and I swear they would have stopped me from going to that too if I hadn’t promised to hate them forever!’

Chelsea nodded. ‘The Sherriff better find him soon, because it’s seriously denting my dating life!’

Absurdly pleased to discover she wasn’t the only one virtually on house arrest, Annie laughed. ‘Trust you to bring it back to your dating life!’

‘How am I supposed to make Adrian jealous if I’m not seen with other guys?’ Chelsea murmured under her breath so only Annie could hear.

Annie suppressed a groan, not entirely convinced her friend’s strategy to propel Adrian into action was a good one.

Caroline nudged Mikayla and pointed her head down the corridor. Brad was walking in their direction and even Annie, who barely knew him, could tell he wasn’t his usual self. His shoulders were slumped, one hand shoved into his jeans pocket. As he got closer, Annie could see he was hollow-eyed, stark shadows under his eyes attesting to a sleepless night.

After he’d passed, his cocky grin nowhere to be seen, Chelsea lifted an enquiring brow in Caroline’s direction. ‘What’s up with him?’

‘I heard he spent the better part of yesterday afternoon in the Sherriff’s office… being interrogated.’

‘Why?’ Annie, who’d already dismissed Brad from Danielle’s suspect list, was mystified.

‘The girl who was murdered over the weekend was the cheerleader he’d been fooling around with,’ Mikayla explained. ‘Remember, I told you about her a while back?’

Annie nodded, surprised she hadn’t figured that out for herself. She remembered watching Brad flirt with a red-haired cheerleader at the game on Friday night – that must be the girl she’d witnessed heroically fighting for her life.

‘Since Danielle was his girlfriend, he has a connection to both murders,’ Caroline continued, clutching her books to her chest.

‘Do you think he did it?’ Chelsea asked, staring intently in the direction Brad had taken.

‘He’s arrogant, sure. But I would never have picked him for a killer,’ Caroline mused. ‘And he doesn’t exactly look guilty. Stressed, yes… but not guilty.’

Annie was inclined to agree, but it couldn’t be denied there was a strong connection between the two victims and Brad. And that connection might provide the missing information to unveil the true murderer.

She mentioned that to Alex while he was taking her through some boxing drills.

‘It’s worth considering. But we’re only going to investigate it from the comfort of home – no field trips and no questioning of Brad,’ Alex warned. ‘We might not think he’s the killer, but we could easily be wrong.’

Annie flew through the boxing sequence – jab, jab, cross, jab, uppercut, uppercut, hook – ducked

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