Taken While I Slept by My Stepbrother and His Friends novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Noon
The officers walked him down the stage steps and up the center aisle.
Two hundred people watched him go.
The news camera at the back turned on its tripod to follow him out the doors.
I looked at the clock over the basketball hoop.
11:21.
The detective came back down the aisle to me with her phone at her ear.
"The judge put the account ending in 4471 in the warrant," she said. "I've sent it to the bank's fraud desk."
"Will they stop the wire?"
"If somebody reads their email before noon."
"Where's the closing?"
She told me.
A title company in Old Town, fourth floor.
"Don't make me write you down, Ms. Kessick," she said.
"I'm just going to watch," I said.
Zane drove.
He made good time down Scottsdale Road, and never once went over the limit by more than a little.
Kipp narrated every light from the back seat.
My mother held my hand so hard my knuckles ached.
At 11:41 we came out of the elevator into a lobby with white couches and a bowl of green apples.
Through a glass wall, I could see a conference room.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Taken While I Slept by My Stepbrother and His Friends are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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