The Hunted by A.J. Scudiere

Author:A.J. Scudiere
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Griffyn Ink

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Cage wrote down the coordinates of the last known location of his father’s cell phone.

“Yes,” he said abruptly, also agreeing to receive a text of the same information.

“The next thing we have,” the woman said, not kindly, but not unkindly, either, “is the last time the phone was used. It was six days ago at four-thirty-seven p.m.”

As was now usual in any kind of business dealings, he and Joule often put the phones on speaker so they could both stay up to speed on their conversations. They were the only ones left, and they were team.

Joule’s eyes were wide, and he saw his sister was calculating back. A small nod told him that the time listed was in fact the last night that they had gone to bed and seen their father.

The news was as bad as they thought.

“It hasn't been used at all since then?” he asked.

“It hasn't pinged a satellite, so if it's been on,” the voice on the phone told him, “it hasn't been able to connect.”

In the end, there was nothing else he could ask. So he thanked the woman and got a number to reach her in case he had any other questions. But he didn’t think he would. Of all the things he wanted to know, none of them were things the information on his father’s phone would likely answer.

Hanging up, he looked to Joule, their dinner forgotten. It took a few moments to find a device to plug the given coordinates into, but in a moment, they saw what they hadn't really expected.

“It looks like we're standing on top of it.”

“Not quite,” Joule said, her head leaning in close to the small screen. “It should be that way.” She pointed up the stairs. “It's probably in his room, and we just didn't find it.”

Cage couldn’t disagree. Though they’d gone through his father’s room before, they hadn't been looking for the phone. They’d just assumed Nate had either taken it with him, or it wasn’t important. He didn’t know why they hadn’t found it though.

His sister gave a reason. “We always turn off the phones at night. No beeping. No ringing. No alerts. So if dad was heading out, the phone would just have been a nuisance. Another thing to carry that he couldn't use.”

Cage felt his lips pull together. He didn't like the sour taste in his mouth. “It wasn’t useless. If he’d gotten stuck, he could have called or texted us.”

But Joule was already shaking her head at him, as though to say, you know better. “If he was stuck, he wouldn't have had time to turn the phone on, let alone for it to find a cell tower and get a message out. And it would have been too noisy.”

“Texting is quiet.” He didn’t have to wait long for her to shoot that idea down, too.

“It’s light. So no. The phone would have just been an extra weight to carry in the end.”

Cage quit trying to justify why his father should have carried the phone he hadn't.

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