Every Waking Hour by Joanna Schaffhausen

Author:Joanna Schaffhausen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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Conroy met with Dorie and Ellery in the hall outside the room where they were holding Tyreek Cantrell for questioning. He had the bracelet, which sat inside a plastic evidence bag. “The nanny has confirmed this is the bracelet Chloe was wearing the day she went missing,” he said. “We need to lean on this kid hard.”

Ellery chewed her bottom lip. “I don’t think he’s our kidnapper.”

“I agree, Captain,” Dorie said. “We found a kid who’s clearly spent the last couple of days sitting around in his underwear playing video games.”

“He got that bracelet somehow. The press is crawling up my ass for answers, and right now, we don’t have any. So I’m telling you two as plainly as I can: go in there and get some.” He shoved the bracelet into Ellery’s hands. She looked to Dorie, who indicated with her eyes that they should just get this over with already.

Ellery took a breath and pushed open the door. Ty had been slumped over on the table, but he righted himself quickly at their appearance. “Do I need a lawyer or something?”

“You tell us,” Ellery said as she pulled out a chair. “Did you do anything you’d need a lawyer for?”

“No,” he said defensively.

“Then you don’t need one.”

“I told you everything I know.”

“I don’t think that’s true. For starters, where’d you get this?” She tossed the bracelet on the table in front of him. He stared at it a moment.

“You took that from my room.”

“Answer the question,” Dorie cut in. “Where did you get it?”

“From Chloe,” he said reasonably. “She made it for me a few months ago. It’s, like, a friendship bracelet or something.” Color heightened on his cheeks. “I took it, but there’s no way I’m wearing some string of beads like that. I’d be laughed off the courts.”

“Chloe was wearing a bracelet just like this the day she disappeared.”

“She made two of them. One for me and one for her. Only I just told you, I don’t wear mine. I made pretend like I did because I didn’t want to hurt her feelings.” He spread his hands. “Is that it? Can I go now?”

“Chloe had a second cell phone,” Ellery said, ignoring him. “What do you know about that?”

He flopped back in his seat, deflated. “Man, I don’t know nothing about that. We played games and cracked each other up—that’s it. I don’t know what kind of cell phones she had.”

“You didn’t buy her one? Maybe so you could keep in touch on a line not being monitored by her strict parents?”

He made an offended face. “No. I gave her a stuffed kitten I won at the arcade once. That’s all.”

“You seem to have a taste for expensive electronics,” Ellery said. “TV, gaming systems. Those shoes you’re wearing go for more than a hundred bucks. Where did you get them?”

“Nike.”

Ellery repressed a sigh. “I mean how did you pay for them?”

“Nike.” They stared at him, disbelieving. “They gave me the shoes, man. I use them when I do my tricks, and it’s like advertising for them.

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