Blood of My Blood (I Hunt Killers Book 3) by Lyga Barry

Author:Lyga, Barry [Lyga, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories, Juvenile Fiction / Boys & Men, Juvenile Fiction / Family / General (See Also Headings Under Social Issues)
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2014-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 29

Things were finally looking up, Hughes figured.

While state units were stopping buses all along 495, he had returned to the hospital to sweat the girlfriend for more info, figuring he’d be in for a rough time with the father—goddamn lawyer—but then he’d actually bumped into the guy in the corridor, babbling about his daughter and a phone call. Hughes knew all about the girlfriend and phone calls; the trace on his own stolen phone had revealed that Jasper Dent had called her the previous day, and she hadn’t told anyone.

Hughes didn’t relish the prospect of interrogating a broken-up, terrorized teenage girl in her hospital bed, but she’d been holding out on him, and he was sick of people holding out on him. No matter their age, sex, or medical status. He was prepared to use every trick in the book to break open that girl’s head and scoop out the secrets stored in there.

But then the father had grabbed him and dragged him to the room, and the girl was more than willing to crack her own skull and spill. Miracle of miracles, the lawyer-dad (surely the most frightening combination of words ever) kept his yap shut and let the daughter talk. Her bruises were fading, and much of the swelling on her face had gone down. She was starting to look again like the pretty girl who’d surprised him at JFK.

Hughes pulled up a chair to listen as she recounted the conversation with one of the Dent siblings. No way to know at this point if it was Billy or Samantha, but Connie’s suspicion—which she wasn’t shy about offering—was that it had to have been Samantha.

“She used words like ‘verisimilitude.’ Her whole way of talking was distinct from Billy’s.”

More Patriot Act requests were in his immediate future. The phone on the other end was probably a burner, probably already smashed on the side of the highway somewhere, but he would make the effort. He might be able to pull some location data.

Not that he thought he needed it. It’s time for everyone to come home, don’t you think? That’s what the voice had said. That could mean only one thing: Billy Dent was heading back to Lobo’s Nod.

It’s the last place in the world anyone would think to look for him. No one would think he would be stupid enough to go where the people know him best. So of course, he makes a beeline for it, while we’re searching the rest of the goddamn planet for him. The guy’s a social-engineering savant.

He made a mental note to put out a BOLO for Samantha Dent and to check all the usual law enforcement databases for her.

But first, he needed something else from the girlfriend.

“Connie, we need to talk about Jasper.”

She nodded contritely.

“He’s in a lot of trouble. And I know you think I want to put him down like a dog, but I swear to you: I just want to catch him before he hurts anyone else. Get the truth out of him, whatever it is.

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