The Boy Who Killed Grant Parker by Kat Spears

Author:Kat Spears
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250088871
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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“Luke,” someone whispered, and for a second I thought I was imagining it. I was still lying on my back on the thin mattress in my jail cell, one arm draped across my eyes. Normally I would sleep on my side, but the metal cot was only comfortable if I stayed flat on my back. My throat burned with acid reflux, but I had refused all food and drink other than water since being taken into custody.

“Luke.” Definitely not a part of my dream. A girl’s voice whispering my name.

I sat up and twisted toward the sound of the voice in one motion. The feeling of having no privacy, of being on display for the world to see me in my cage, was almost unbearable.

My first reaction to seeing Delilah was relief. It was good to see a friendly face, even if she had never really been all that friendly toward me. It didn’t occur to me to wonder how she had managed to get into the prisoner area. She was as sneaky as she was clever.

“Does your dad know you’re here?” I asked as I craned my head to peer through the bars, afraid Chief Perry would come storming at us any second and bludgeon me to death.

“Of course not,” she said with a roll of her eyes.

“How did you know I was here?” I asked.

“Dad’s radio at home. I heard everything from the paramedics and the dispatcher.”

“Do you know if Grant’s okay?” I asked, relieved to finally be able to ask the question.

She bit her lip and turned her head to one side, looking at the hall door instead of at me. “He was alive when he got to the hospital,” she said finally. “That’s all I know.”

“They think I threw him. Pushed him,” I said. “I didn’t do anything. He fell. Just … tripped and fell. I thought he was dead.” This all tumbled out in a rush as I felt comfortable speaking for the first time since the accident, as if I was finally in the presence of an ally.

“I’ll talk to my dad,” she said. “I’ll tell him it had to have been an accident. There’s no way you would kill someone, no way you would have hurt Grant on purpose. I mean, I know you … sort of.” As she said this last part her expression changed and she paused for a moment, as if to consider how well she actually knew me. “Anyway, there’s no way you could kill someone.”

“Do me a favor and don’t say a word to your dad about me,” I said quickly. “He already hates me because he thinks I’m trying to get into your pants. If you take up my side, he’ll do whatever he can to make sure my ass goes to jail for a long time.”

“Are you?” she asked.

“Am I what?”

“Trying to get into my pants?” Her eyes were wide with the question as she waited for my response.

“No,” I said. “I have no interest in getting into your pants.

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