Seven Minutes Later by Bonnie Kistler
Author:Bonnie Kistler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2022-04-15T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter 20
Four hours passed before the door to Interview A swung in again, and instantly I could see that something had changed since I last saw the detectives. Riley now wore a stubble of beard that was shockingly white against the gray pallor of his skin. Cruzâs Vandyke was neatly trimmed again; he must have kept a razor in his desk. But it was their expressions that had changed the most.
âWhat?â I said. âWhat happened?â They might have struck out on their search of Lucyâs house. But they still had the note; that should have been enough.
Cruz didnât answer or even look at me. He sat down and turned on the recording equipment, and he droned out all the preliminaries again: date and time, persons in the room, consents and waivers duly executed.
Riley ignored my question, too. âHold up,â he said to Cruz. âYou just said Shay Lambertâs in the room.â
âOh, youâre right,â Cruz agreed. âLet me correct that for the record. I shouldâve said Sharona Chance.â He looked at me then, finally. âIsnât that right?â he said, and he opened a folder and shot a paper across the table like a hockey puck.
I didnât need to look at it. I knew what it was. As soon as he said Sharona Chance, I knew theyâd gotten their hands on my birth certificate. The name was Barbâs little dig against the man whoâd knocked her up. âMy Sharonaâ was their song, and Fat Chance was the name she gave him after he took off and she found out he wasnât really Paul Getty. âIt was a stupid name,â I said. âI never used it.â
You can call yourself whatever you want, Mrs. Casco told me, so starting in eighth grade, I signed all my tests and homework papers as Shay Chance. The school eventually conformed my transcripts, and by the time I reached law school, I made it legal. Later I switched out Chance for Lambert and made that legal, too. A birth certificate wasnât a public record in the state of New York. No one was ever supposed to see it.
âMakes you wonder, doesnât it?â Riley said. âAbout the kind of person whoâd kill off her own mother?â
âWe were never close,â I said in a low voice. âWe didnât have any kind of relationship.â
âYeah, so we gathered,â Cruz said. âThat call you made to her on Christmas Day was the first time sheâd heard from you in years.â
Theyâd opened my phone. Theyâd talked to Barb.
âShe told us a lot more than that,â he said. âThings that make us wonder if you told us anything thatâs true.â
âI haveââ
âPoor me, Iâm an only child,â he said in a falsetto.
Sheâd told them about Roger and Tommy.
âTheyâre half brothers,â I said. âTheyâre a lot older than I am. I barely knew them.â
âOr maybe you deliberately withheld their names because Rogerâs doing time in a federal penitentiary.â
âNo. I didnât know that. We havenât been in touch for years.â
âYouâll never guess what he was convicted of.â
During the
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