Her Perfect Life by Ryan Hank Phillippi

Author:Ryan, Hank Phillippi [Ryan, Hank Phillippi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Crime, Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781250258885
Amazon: 125025888X
Goodreads: 56179370
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: 2021-09-14T07:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 34

LILY

Lily jabbed a finger at the lighted neon sign displaying a giant crimson horse just off the turnpike exit. She and Banning had stopped at the red light that swayed above Exit 217, a tangled skein of streets Lily’d always thought had been designed by a particularly sadistic civil engineer.

“Banning,” she said. “Pull into that gas station. Now.”

“Why?”

The light stayed red.

“Banning. If you don’t, I’m opening this damn car door and getting out. And I am calling the real police. And listen.” She recited three letters and three numbers. “I know your license plate, and I know there’s surveillance video of you coming into Channel 6, and in one phone call, the cops will be on you faster than you can say impersonating an officer.”

The light stayed red. She swore she saw Banning smile, his eyes still obscured by those sunglasses.

“So Greer met with you?” she asked. “Last night? At Lido?” Not half an hour before, while Banning was inside Lido, Smith had told her Greer had met with him. Had all three been together?

“Like I said.”

Their light changed to green. Behind them, the honking of horns had instantly begun, a raucous symphony of impatience and anger.

Lily knew how they felt. Anger and impatience were not the half of it. Someone was toying with her, holding not only Greer over her head, but Cassie. The only reason she’d put up with this potentially risky charade was the possibility of getting some answers. Banning clearly knew something about Cassie. He also knew Greer had been on her trail. Might have even put her there.

And that was unnerving. She’d believed—for years—that she was the only one in the world looking for Cassie. Everyone else assumed Cassie was dead. But though Lily knew back then that Cassie left on purpose, she had no idea about what happened to her sister.

Now this detective’s interest could only mean Cassie was still alive. Who had hired him to find her?

And his earlier question had hit a nerve. Had she wondered why Cassie hadn’t looked for her? Daily. Lily had always pushed that awkward thought aside, but it was true, Cassie wouldn’t have any difficulty finding her. Lily’s face was on television and billboards and in magazine ads. Google Lily Atwood, and you’d get new entries every day. Not like Cassie, where the stories about her never changed or advanced. Online, Cassie Atwood was forever eighteen. If she were alive, she’d be around forty.

Lily’d believed, mostly believed, that Cassie must be dead.

Now Banning was looking for her. So was Greer. Smith had said he’d met with Greer at Lido. And now, Banning, too? Smith and Banning?

Smith and Banning?

“Was it just the two of you at Lido?”

“Just the two? Not sure what you—”

“Go,” she said, pointing at the gas station. Smith and Banning. “Now. I am not staying in this car one more second unless you tell me what the hell is going on.”

Lily braced one hand on the dashboard as Banning veered the car into the

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