Tangled Hearts by M. S. Parker

Author:M. S. Parker [Parker, M. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Belmonte Publishing, LLC
Published: 2023-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Ethan

I made it halfway to the front entrance before it hit me that the last thing I wanted was to go back to my hotel room alone. Aria was out there, digging up dirt on this Sugar website, and it didn’t seem right to just sit on my ass waiting. I needed to contribute something, anything, to the investigation.

Truth be told, I figured I had two things to offer: protecting Aria when she inevitably did something reckless and having a police contact.

Police contact.

Kris.

I headed back to my car and drove straight to the station. I hoped they already had the intel on the website and Rachel’s date, but with Marty hauling Lee in for questioning, I had this gnawing feeling that the detective would zero in on the ex, just like Aria had predicted.

Walking into the station, I spotted Kris by the desk of one of his officers. Their body language screamed tension, and I hung back, praying no one would question my presence, waiting for an opening.

As the officer walked away, I seized my chance and approached Kris.

“Ethan,” he said, taken aback. “What are you doing here?”

I gestured for him to step aside with me. “I was wondering if you had any new info on the case you could share.”

Kris scrunched up his brow. “You came all the way here to pester me for intel on an ongoing case?”

“Hey, don’t make it sound bad.” I rubbed the back of my neck. “I just had to escape my hotel room.”

“Because you’re all in on this case,” Kris shot back. “Alright, fine. I’ll spill what I can when I can.”

“Thanks, man. So…?”

“Right now, Detective Pickman is grilling Lee Cohen. Marty hauled him in this morning from some sketchy drug den.”

“Ah,” I said, “about that…”

Kris’s eyes narrowed. “What the hell did you do?”

“Okay, so Aria and I might’ve done a bit of our own sleuthing, which involved dropping by a certain house this morning to chat with some of Rachel’s pals.”

“You were there?” Kris crossed his arms. “Shit, Ethan. Marty’s already convinced you’re up to no good.”

“I know,” I said, “but we’ve dug up stuff Marty might’ve missed.”

“Like what?”

“Like we’re pretty sure Lee Cohen’s got nothing to do with Rachel’s vanishing act or, you know, the murder.”

Kris shut his eyes for a sec, his shoulders drooping. He looked completely wiped out. “Did you guys confront Lee or something?”

“That’s beside the point,” I said.

“I bet Detective Pickman would beg to differ.”

I shrugged off his remark. “Lee was genuinely torn up about Rachel going missing. Plus, he said Rachel dumped him a couple of weeks ago.”

“That kinda sounds like a murder motive, not the opposite.”

“She claimed she’d found something way better,” I added.

“Again, more motive, not less.”

“I might’ve agreed if Aria hadn’t stumbled upon something on Rachel’s laptop.”

Kris’s head snapped up. “Her what?”

“Aria got her hands on Rachel’s laptop. Don’t ask me how, but she started snooping and found something.”

“Aria has Rachel’s laptop, and instead of telling her to hand it over to

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