Up the Creek by Alissa C. Grosso

Author:Alissa C. Grosso [Grosso, Alissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Glitter Pigeon Press

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Caitlin sat in the stiff chair in the police station waiting area. Lance had been in the little meeting room with the police for what felt like forever, but when she pulled out her phone to check it, she saw it hadn’t yet been ten minutes. Time no longer had any meaning.

Caitlin tried to deal with her racing heart and the all-over ache of her body by exhaling loudly through her mouth. She had a memory of watching breathing exercise videos on YouTube when she was pregnant with Adam. Thinking about her pregnancy sent a fresh wave of pain through her. Where was her baby? Where was her baby boy?

She had told the police everything she could remember about her stupid convenience store stop. Well, almost everything. The stuff that was relevant, she reasoned.

What she said was that she had to go out and run some errands, that Adam had fallen asleep in the car, and she had forgotten him when she made a quick stop at the convenience store. When she realized her error, she ran outside, but it was too late. He was already gone.

“I couldn’t have been in the store more than a minute,” she said.

“Two minutes, twenty-five seconds,” that smartass Marley had said. They had security camera footage of her in the store, but how stupid was this? They could see her plain as day shopping, but those cameras hadn’t picked up the sick psycho who had kidnapped Adam from the back of the car.

“What’s the point of the cameras?” Caitlin asked in frustration. “How is that even legal?”

Her question did not get an answer. Instead Officer Young said, “Tell me about the energy drinks, Ms. Walker.”

“What?” She couldn’t believe that was what he was going to focus on. “I have a big project I’m working on,” she said. It wasn’t entirely a lie. “I needed to stay up late to work on it.”

As she sat in the waiting area chair, Caitlin played back over the whole exchange in her head. They suspected her, she was sure of it. Well, that was how it was a lot of times in these cases. She had seen the news stories.

It convinced her that she had done the right thing in not telling them about driving out to Pennsylvania. That would have looked weird and suspicious, and how would she have explained it? She imagined herself saying she drove out there to pick up some discontinued sleeping pills, what were technically illegal drugs. As if that wasn’t bad enough, there was the fact that she had nothing to show for her travels. How suspicious would it have been to tell them she went out there to buy some discontinued medication but had come back empty-handed? Plus, they would have relayed all that to Lance, and he would have lost his shit for sure. As it was, what were they telling Lance in that little meeting room? She pulled out her phone again to check, astounded to see that only two more minutes had elapsed.

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