CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
The conversation with Nadia had gone from bad to worse. She was tense and angry with him, blaming his work on the newspaper for what had happened at school.
‘All this business with the missing child and you being in the public eye brings unwelcome attention to our family,’ she'd told him, as the two officers squirmed uncomfortably in their seats. ‘Who knows what this man might have done to Zach? He could have ended up as the next Poppy Norman. It might well have been our child's face on those missing posters, Cory.’
‘My work is no worse than yours,’ he tried to explain in as non-confrontational a tone as he could manage. ‘You deal with suspects and guilty parties in court all day. That also exposes him in a way that a job at the grocery store wouldn’t…’
He should ha
