typical teenage stuff. A worn baseball glove. Video games. Old comic books. Some swimming trophies from when he was in grade school.
Nothing that provided even a hint or a clue of where Cornell might have gone or why. Travis had started to put them back in place when he noticed a smaller box pushed to the back of the shelf. He took it down, opened it and peered inside.
A porn magazine stared back at him. He lifted it to find eight more, all with pictures of naked women, nothing sadistic or particularly kinky.
All well hidden from his mother.
No surprise. Guys of eighteen seldom confided those kinds of thoughts and activities to their mothers. But if Travis and Faith were going to find Cornell, they would have to go into this with their eyes wide open.
He stuck his head out the bedroom door. “Faith, want to come in here a minute?”
She arrived a few seconds later, breathless from racing up the stairs. The look on her face was expectant, downright hopeful.
He hated that what he had to show her would replace it with a kick in the gut. He tried to think of something to make this easier on her, but he’d never been great at dancing around the truth.
He set the box on the table. “This might explain why Cornell was spotted at the Passion Pit.”
Faith pushed back the cover of the top magazine with one finger, as if was too disgusting to touch. Tough on a mother to find out her baby wasn’t one.
Travis’s cell phone vibrated. Caller ID indicated it was from the precinct. “I need to take this,” he said.
Faith nodded.
His focus quickly switched to the call and the information relayed to him by one of the younger officers recently appointed to serve under him in the homicide division.
The news was not good.
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