Kill You Last by Todd Strasser

Author:Todd Strasser
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781606843185
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Published: 2011-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

I WENT TO bed that night feeling better. No matter what people said about the validity of lie-detector tests, Dad had still passed. That had to count for something. And I’d learned more about Gabriel, too. He might have been beautiful to look at, but Roman was right—deep down, it appeared that he was pretty shallow. And finally, I felt better thanks to Whit, who was reassuring in his own way, reminding me that there were still people in the world who weren’t just out to further their own career regardless of who they hurt.

I slept well and woke in the morning wondering if I should follow Whit’s advice and spend the day trying to help my family. Maybe some good could still come out of all of this. Surely, Dad had learned a lesson. If I could get him to tell Mom that he was truly sorry for what he’d done and was ready to change his ways, perhaps I could persuade them to at least attempt to patch up their marriage.

And it was Sunday, the perfect day to do it. I stretched and reached over to my night table to check my BlackBerry.

And instantly wished I hadn’t.

There was an e-mail … from [email protected]: Have fun last nite? What a hunk. But w8 till U C the news this morning. Have a gr8 day!

Shivers burrowed through me. First: whoever was sending me these e-mails had been at the party last night. Second: it may have been Sunday, but there would be no rest from bad news.

Still in my pajamas, I hurried downstairs and turned on the TV. Neither Mom nor Dad was in the kitchen. The channels were all doing the weather or commercials, so I made coffee and waited. Finally, one of the channels went to a reporter wearing a yellow rain slicker and standing in a wooded area blocked by police cars and crime scene tape: “Police here in Scranton, Pennsylvania, are reporting this morning the discovery of a badly decomposed body in a riverbank cave just outside the boundaries of a state park. Scranton chief of police Edward Naughton cautioned that it may take some time to get a positive ID, but he did acknowledge that the body appears to fit the description of Rebecca Parlin, an aspiring young model who disappeared from the area about a month ago.”

I slumped into a chair as the last glimmer of hope that the missing girls were still alive dissolved into the kitchen air. Maybe it had been a foolish hope to begin with, but until now it had felt like a possibility, no matter how slight. And that made it feel silly to cling to the other improbables—that maybe the other two girls were still alive, that maybe the disappearances had nothing to do with Dad or the people at his studio anyway.

Mom came into the kitchen in her robe, glanced at the TV as if she already knew what was on it, and poured herself a cup of coffee.

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