If She Had Stayed by Diane Byington

Author:Diane Byington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: time travel, thriller, suspense, mystery thriller suspense
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing
Published: 2020-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

“Time Warp”

Kaley woke to the ringing of her cell phone, which she’d left on her dresser to charge. Confused, she looked at her watch. It was eight thirty. She must have overslept. God, she never slept that long, even on Sundays. Scott was probably asleep, too, because the apartment was quiet, and there was no aroma of coffee.

Glancing at the number on the phone’s readout, she saw that Hannah was calling. Why? The two had spent hours, the weekend before, working through the time travel procedures, and everything was clear. Maybe her friend had an emergency of some kind.

“Hello.” She balanced the phone on her shoulder as she pulled on shorts and a tank top.

“Is he in bed with you right now? Just say yes or no.”

“No. He’s asleep in the guest room.” She didn’t want to admit the reason. “Why is it any of your concern?”

“Because I need to tell you what I found out about him. I was on the late shift at the library yesterday. It was slow, so I was thinking about your experiment today. I decided to do another search on Scott, because I’ve got access to more databases there. You know how we couldn’t find out anything about him on Google? Well, it’s because he was in prison.”

Kaley was stunned. “What do you mean?” He had never so much as hinted, in any of their long talks together, that he had done time. Her skin began to crawl. She had never known a single person who had been in prison.

“He went to prison when he was twenty-one, and he did eight years of a thirteen-year sentence in Canon City for manslaughter.”

“No. I don’t believe it.”

“I’ll forward the information to you, and you can see for yourself.”

Kaley held the phone up to her ear, but she couldn’t process what she had just heard. Hannah wouldn’t lie, no matter how much she disliked Scott. But, really? How could he have kept something so important from me? “Uh, who did he kill?”

“Are you sitting down? Somebody by the name of Brian Bowers. Same last name. Could that be his brother?”

“Oh, my God. Yes. He killed his brother?”

“Sounds like Scott was driving, and he had a wreck that killed the passenger. He was drunk and ran the car off a cliff, from what I can tell.”

“I’ll have to call you back in a few minutes.” Kaley read the news article Hannah forwarded. What her friend reported was true. Scott had been convicted of killing his brother, partly on the testimony of a college student named Micah Underwood, who saw Scott turn the wheel, seemingly deliberately, off the road and over the cliff. So Brian really was dead, but it hadn’t happened when he was in the Peace Corps. That story had never really made sense, although she hadn’t questioned it at the time. Brian had loved his job as a computer programmer in Boulder and had never mentioned being attracted to the Peace Corps. What a crock of shit Scott had told her.

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