Model Investigator (Haven Investigations Book 3) by Lissa Kasey

Author:Lissa Kasey [Kasey, Lissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay Romance
ISBN: 9781635335552
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

THE SECOND meeting was at a truck stop almost an hour outside town. After the confrontation with the cop, the idea of going so far worried me. Except the stop was busy, packed with trucks and pedestrian traffic, as apparently it had the only sandwich shop in miles. I knew the ex-cop as soon as I stepped into the restaurant. It was the way his eyes scanned the dining area, and his gray hair was still buzzed short.

“Detective Franklin?” I asked as I approached him. He stood with a courtesy I didn’t often see to shake my hand and gesture me toward the empty seat at his table. “Thank you for seeing me,” I told him after we both sat down.

“You had a lot of good questions when you called.”

I’d called him in the car on the way down yesterday with the hands-free, hoping for some answers before hitting town. “Kade’s family recently took him hostage, drugged him, and lied about having him. I want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.” I pulled out my tablet and opened to the long list of things Kade had supposedly done to warrant such anger from his family.

“His sister gave me a list of things his family is claiming Kade did. I was hoping you could give me your opinion on some of them.” I didn’t mention that Kade didn’t have a record. He’d never been charged with a crime, not even as a youth. If he had been, it’d been expunged, though even that sometimes could leave a paper trail that hinted of more.

The former detective took a sip of his coffee and accepted the tablet. He read through the list, scrolling the several pages before pushing it back to me. “I don’t think he did most of this shit. Only thing I ever caught him doing was setting off fireworks when he was thirteen. His brothers were there but ran when they saw me. I tried to bring him home to his folks, but they wanted me to charge him with reckless endangerment and vandalism.”

I gaped. “Are you serious?”

“Yeah. Thirteen and I ended up putting him in lockup for the night. Had to convince my sergeant to let him go. He was a good friend of the kid’s dad. When I wrote up the report that I’d seen the two other boys run off but had been able to identify them, he made me change it.”

“Change it how?”

“Remove them from the report. He said I must have ‘mis-seen’ as Kade was alone. He wanted to send Kade to juvie. I refused. Let him go with a warning. Bad enough the kid’s parents didn’t want him around no need to throw a kid that young into juvie for messing around with his brothers.”

I checked the date on that incident, and sure enough, it corresponded to another admission to “psychiatric care.” “That was the only thing you think he did?” I flipped through my notes of the few incidents I’d found that he’d been home when they happened.

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