Caught #10 by Harlan Coben

Author:Harlan Coben
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Teenage Girls, Mystery & Detective, General, Thrillers, Sex Offenders, Suspense, Suburban Life, Women Journalists, Abduction, Missing Persons, Fiction
ISBN: 9780451232700
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2010-03-22T05:00:00+00:00

Caught

Page: 118

"Okay. "

"I don't know how to put this without making it sound like something it's not. "

Wendy waited, tried to give him space.

"Look, Dan and this sex stuff . . . "

His voice drifted off. Wendy was about to go after him. Sex stuff? Trying to meet up with an underage girl and maybe kidnapping another--that isn't something to dismiss as "sex stuff. " But now was hardly the time for a morality play. So again she said nothing and waited.

"Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying Dan was a pedophile. It wasn't like that. "

He stopped again and this time Wendy wasn't sure that he'd start up again without some prompting. "So what was it like?" she asked.

Phil started, stopped, shook his head. "Let's say that Dan didn't mind getting them when they were young, if you know what I mean. "

Wendy's heart dropped.

"When you say getting them when they were young . . . ?"

"There were times--now keep in mind this was more than twenty years ago, okay?--but there were times when Dan preferred the company of younger girls. Not like a pedophile or anything. Nothing sick. But he liked going to high school parties. He'd invite young girls to campus events, that kind of thing. "

Wendy's mouth felt dry. "How young?"

"I don't know. It's not like I asked for ID. "

"How young, Phil?"

"Like I said, I don't know. " He squirmed. "Keep in mind we were freshmen in college. All of eighteen, nineteen years old ourselves. So maybe these girls were in high school. Not a big deal, right? I think Dan was maybe eighteen. So the girls were like two, maybe three or four years younger. "

"Four? That would make a girl fourteen. "

"I don't know. I'm just saying. And you know how it is too. Some fourteen-year-old girls look a lot older. The way they dress and stuff. It's like they want to appeal to older guys. "

"Don't go there, Phil. "

"You're right. " He rubbed his face with both hands. "God, I have daughters that age. I'm not defending him. I'm trying to explain. Dan wasn't a pervert or a rapist, but still, okay, the idea that he could hit on a younger girl? That I could maybe get. But that he would kidnap one, that he'd grab and harm a young girl . . . ? That, no, I can't see at all. "

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