Sharp Absence by Kate Anders

Author:Kate Anders
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798985571707
Publisher: BooBerry Books

I sit in my car for a while after that. Not really ready to go back to the apartment, but also not really having anywhere to go yet. I should probably tell Will about everything, give him more to work with. Collin’s story makes sense to me. And Clara never mentioning it makes sense too. She never wanted to bring up Collin unless she absolutely had to. She was fierce when it came to protecting me and my feelings, especially back then, when everything was still so fresh.

The bruise is really what’s bothering me. I can’t believe I wouldn’t have noticed it. It’s like running a movie in reverse, trying to find the moment where I wasn’t paying attention to my best friend, to my only family. I have to be honest with myself, if this was right after everything with Collin, would I have noticed? At the very least, it certainly would have been a lot easier for Clara to hide it.

And if she was hiding it, why would she be hiding it? If she had just fallen or something, there would be no reason to. We would have had a good laugh about how she was starting to take after me with my level of klutzy. But if she got it from a person, it wouldn’t have been a laugh. I would have raised hell about it. Maybe that’s why she hid it.

Finally, I give in and decide it’s time to call Will and tell him everything.

It takes a couple of seconds, but before long, I hear Will’s steady voice piping through my car speakers. “Will Anderson.”

“Hey, it’s Kenzie.”

“I hear you met King.”

“Yeah. Thanks for the heads-up.”

“It’s best if people go in cold when it comes to meeting King.”

“Better for you maybe, so you can have a good laugh at everyone else’s expense.”

He chuckles in response. “Touché.”

“I take it she filled you in on everything.”

“Yep, complete with illustrations.”

“You’ve seen the pictures, then?”

“Yep. Pretty sure I recognized the little snot-nosed kid too. Kid’s got a carbon copy of Fitz’s eyes.”

“Yep, that’s Collin.”

“Your ex, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Hmmm, well, that’s interesting.” He pauses. “You already talked to him, didn’t you?”

“Of course I did.”

“Couldn’t have waited for me? Would have been nice to get a read on him.”

“Sorry, I honestly didn’t even think about it.”

“Amateur,” he says it like a joke though so I’m not offended.

I take this opportunity to run him through everything that had happened in the last hour, and everything Collin said. When I was done, there was just silence on the other end.

“Will?”

“Clara have a boyfriend?”

“Uh, no. No one. Not in the four years I’ve known her, and she didn’t have any boyfriends in high school either,” I explain.

“I would have remembered reading something about a boyfriend in the paperwork,” he says kind of distractedly.

“You got the reports?” I ask.

“I’ve had the reports. There’s nothing useful in any of them, but I have them.”

“Oh.” I was really hoping there was something in them that the cops hadn’t told me.

“So far, you’re the only one who has come up with anything to go off of.

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