A family of evil

Chapter 14

‘If you were to guess, what do you think he might be getting up to when he left here?’

‘Well, like most kids I suppose. He probably had people he hung out with which mightn’t have been the best influence.’

‘What makes you say that?’

Gary shrugged his shoulders. ‘Kids that age, you know.’

They waited, watching. It usually worked.

‘I do know there was someone he was scared of though.’

Bingo! ‘Keep going.’ Franklin could smell the truth behind his apparent attempt at looking like he was cooperating.

‘Well, I walked out of the studio with him once and he stopped. There was someone sitting in a car outside. He asked me if there was a back way out. I told him to come with me through the basement and I could drop him off wherever he was going.’

‘And did you?’

‘Well, that was the funny thing, we just got down the road and he asked to be let out.’

‘And?’

‘He got out and I never saw him again.’

‘What kind of car was it?’

Gary looked at them and elation shot through Franklin as he knew that th