Heartbreaker by Romy Lockhart

Author:Romy Lockhart [Lockhart, Romy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-07T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Asher

I’m on my way into the diner when my phone starts to ring. Sasha’s number flashes up on the screen and I decide not to answer. If she asked where I was, and I’m certain she would, I’d feel weird about lying. I definitely couldn’t tell her what I was up to. She wouldn’t understand. She hadn’t the first time I’d come out here. Told me if the police couldn’t find them, what hope did I have?

I put the phone onto silent, knowing full well she’ll call again when I don’t pick up. She knows I don’t listen when she leaves me messages. I should probably start. It’d be less annoying than being called fifteen times in a row.

The night is eerily quiet as I park up and move toward the diner’s front doors. The background music from the restaurant bleeds out into the air as I get closer. It’s barely a whisper on the wind until I open one of the doors. I step inside and the door closes with a slight jingle.

There are a few half-filled tables, but their occupants don’t fill me with much in the way of hope. They’re all teenagers, of a similar age to the girl I already spoke to. My parents’ disappearance won’t hold any significance to them. They won’t remember it.

I listen in carefully to their conversations as I pass, moving towards the counter. They’re talking about different things; football, girls, a party. None of it seems unusual.

“Hi there, what can I get for ya?” The middle-aged woman behind the counter asks the moment I sit down on one of their high stools.

She’s aged a little bit more than I would have expected, but it’s the same woman I questioned about my mother and father a few years ago. The blank stare she gives me shows that she doesn’t remember me. I didn’t think I’d changed much, but I suppose it wouldn’t have been such a big deal to her as it was to me.

“I’ll take a coffee. You don’t remember me, do you?”

She blinks and looks me over slowly, before shaking her head. “I’m afraid I had a bit of a fall a couple years back, hon. Never quite been right ever since.”

“I’m sorry to hear that.” I wonder if questioning her is even worth it, but it is what I came for. No use driving all this way to come away without even trying. I clear my throat. “My parents went missing a few years back. Their car was found out this way. I come out here sometimes, just to remember them, really.”

She gives me a sympathetic smile. “It’s the ravine, it seems to attract out of towners for some reason. We’ve had more than a few suicides there. It’s just under Parker’s Point which is the highest drop in town. I still think they should close that road right off.”

I listen to her rambling, wondering why she went straight to talking about the ravine and suicides if she doesn’t remember me.

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