Disappeared by Lucienne Diver

Author:Lucienne Diver [Diver, Lucienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-68057-120-2
Publisher: WordFire Press

Jared

Dad was right about one thing; Jared had a lot of thinking to do. Dad was cutting them off. He couldn’t talk to the police, which was okay. He didn’t want to talk to the police. He couldn’t speak to Aunt Aggie. He couldn’t communicate with anyone—not without his phone or computer or Xbox. Not until tomorrow at school, anyway.

It made him feel a weird, crazy kind of vulnerability. What if something happened? He considered picking up one of those pay-as-you-go phones, but without a car, he had no way to get to a store. He could catch a ride, but if Dad found out he didn’t come straight home or skipped practice … there’d be hell to pay, and these days hell seemed like a literal thing.

But mostly he was worried about Emily. She’d already lost her mother—their mother. She couldn’t lose her aunt too.

He had to fix this. He had to find out what had happened to Mom. Despite his father. Despite the police. He needed to know what he’d heard that night before it ate him alive. Because if there was anything he could have done …

It hurt so damn much he wanted to curl up on his bed and—Die, he thought. But only for a second. He’d never leave Emily alone like that. And it wouldn’t solve anything. What he really wanted was to sleep through the pain. To wake up and find out the horror had passed. Mom was back. He would be so glad to see her, he’d forgive her for ever leaving. Emily was happy. The police were off his case. Aaliyah was speaking to him again and her parents were okay with it. Dad was … well, Dad still wouldn’t be happy, except maybe that he’d been proven right and everyone could give it a rest.

He lay down on his bed. He wanted to turn his back to the door, curl up facing the wall, and shut out the world, but he couldn’t bring himself to do it. He didn’t know who he thought might sneak up on him, but he faced the door anyway, ready to spring out of bed in a second if Emily called out or he heard any odd noises. He was so tense he might as well have been crouched at the starting block.

With nothing to distract him, thoughts spun in his head. He relived every second of the afternoon, from dragging Aaliyah into things through the break-in and interrogation and Dad’s strange outburst with Aunt Aggie. The thing that really stuck with him was what Detective Anderson had said after she’d accused him of having something to do with his mother’s disappearance and he’d asked her why, if that was true, he’d left her messages and texts. “That only proves you’re smart enough to leave that trail.”

He’d told Emily that he didn’t think Richard knew anything about where Mom was, because his Facebook messages sounded worried, but what if he was leaving a false trail, like

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