She'll Never Live by Hunter Morgan

Author:Hunter Morgan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2017-05-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

"You talk to Dad?"

Ashley's voice startled Claire. Even though they were pretty much spending twenty-four hours a day together, the teen had barely spoken to her in the last week.

The investigation of Chain had gone nowhere. The same went for José and his uncle. The FBI profiler's report had been very interesting. Much of the findings had reiterated the conclusions Claire had already drawn about the killer's personality, but she still felt no closer to him. In the meantime, the pressure was on. She'd talked to Kurt twice in the last few days.

The arrival of the task force was imminent; this morning two workmen had arrived to add additional phone lines in the conference room in the basement where it had been decided the task force would operate. Sometime in the next few days, Claire's station would be inundated with state police and she would turn her investigation over to Kurt. The idea left a sour taste in her mouth, but she really had no choice.

Claire realized Ashley was staring at her. Waiting.

"Um.. , no. No, I didn't talk to him. He's dodging my calls again. I think he thinks I'm calling to get more money out of him." Claire pulled her sunglasses off and slid them onto the dash of the cruiser. It was almost seven-thirty; her father would be having a fit because they were late. Claire had said she and Ashley would be there for dinner and bring chicken salad from the diner. It was her father's favorite.

"So... you still going to talk to him about me going to Utah to live with him?" Ashley asked cautiously.

Claire exhaled; she had so many things to think about that she felt as if her mind were going to explode. "I don't know, Ash."

"Because I don't want to go."

Claire signaled. Turned. "I think you've already established that."

"And you really don't have a reason to send me away, now. I mean, if you really thought Chain was killing people, you'd have arrested him by now."

Claire cut her eyes at her daughter. They were leaving the house so early in the morning that Ashley was barely getting time for a shower. The first couple of days she came into the office, she brought her makeup with her. Two days running now, though, she hadn't bothered with the black eyeliner or lipstick. Even with the black hair, she looked more like the old Ashley than Claire had seen in months.

"Arresting someone is not as easy as you might think," Claire told her daughter. "You have to have evidence that you think someone might have committed a crime. Physical evidence."

"So you're admitting that you know Chain isn't the killer."

"I'm not admitting anything." Claire pulled into the diner parking lot. "I'm going to grab Grampa's chicken salad. You want to stay here or are you coming in?" She reached into the glove compartment for her wallet.

"Actually, I was wondering." Ashley actually made eye contact with her mother. "Could I go across the street to the drugstore and get some stuff?"

"I said you weren't to go out of my sight.

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