Jes Battis - 01 Night Child by Jes Battis

Author:Jes Battis [Battis, Jes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

I was sitting in a small interrogation chamber deep within the CORE crime lab. It was the same scene that I'd witnessed hundreds of times before-a suspect getting grilled by Selena and another officer, sometimes a telepath– only I was the one in the hot seat this time. And it was a very uncomfortable chair. I was seated at a small table, with both Marcus and Selena staring at me from the other side. They'd already questioned Derrick, but they wouldn't let me see him. There was a sheet of two-way glass on the other side of the room, and I had no idea who was standing beyond it, watching. Maybe two agents poised to arrest me. Maybe something worse.

I was trying to keep my mind on the matter at hand, but I kept flashing back to that dream.

God. My subconscious had a really sick sense of humor sometimes. I also hadn't mentioned my gaffe with the lost keycard. I'd convinced myself that it was a minor fuck-up, and I could just convince Becka to encode me a new one. She owed me for recommending a nontoxic hair dye.

Mia had been taken to the small common area where lab techs and OSIs usually chatted, smoked, and ate dinner. She was being watched at all times. I hadn't seen her in almost an hour, and I could only imagine what might have been going through her mind. Cassandra was gone. Her only living relative, that we knew of, was dead. Now she had absolutely no one to take care of her.

Except me.

Selena motioned to the glass of water sitting next to me. Have some more. You're not exactly at a hundred percent tonight, and we need you to be thinking clearly.

Yes. Marcus glared at me. You wouldn't want to leave anything crucial out of your story.

Ignoring him, I took a drink. If they'd put some kind of sedative or truth serum in my glass, it was well hidden.

All right, Selena said. Tell us again. Be as specific as possible, and try to remember everything that you can about last night.

I nodded.

Mia called your cell phone-we pulled the phone records, and confirmed that a call was placed from Derrick Siegel's cell at 10:28 p.m. last night. The call lasted for approximately three minutes.

So what did you talk about?

I spoke with Derrick first, I said. He told me that Mia had called him at home, and that she was worried. Her aunt-

Cassandra Polanski?

Yes, that's her. Mia said that Cassandra was supposed to pick her up after work, but she was two hours late.

And Mia was nervous about this.

See-Marcus flashed me a meaningful look-this is where I get confused. You were removed from Mia Polanski's case, were you not, Tess?

I started to protest, but then thought the better of it. Yes, I said simply.

You were instructed, by your director, not to speak with Mia Polanski or to come within a mile of her. So when Mia called you, your first instinct should have been to notify one of your superiors-either Selena or myself-and explain what was going on.

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