Lie To Me. J.T. Ellison

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       THE FIRST BREAK

      The call came very late that evening, while Ethan Montclair sat in his lonely house, contemplating whether he should go searching for his wife or continue to allow the inertia and ennui to consume him. Get lost in a bottle, or possibly stumble across his dead wife’s body?

      An easy, unsurprising decision. He’d poured a drink and continued to type.

      Officer Holly Graham, though, had already gone to bed. When her cell phone rang, she fumbled with the phone—who wouldn’t, that late? When she finally got it to her ear, there was silence. She feared the caller had hung up. They hadn’t.

      “Officer...Graham, is it?”

      The voice was female, deeper than normal, but feminine. Graham glanced quickly at the caller ID—private. That could be anything from a blocked number to a pay phone.

      “Yes. Who is this?”

      “You need to look closer at Ethan Montclair.”

      “Who is this?” Graham had asked again.

      “A concerned friend. Sutton Montclair is my friend. I’m afraid, we’re afraid, Ethan’s hurt Sutton.”

      The voice was clear and confident, though Officer Graham could hear a waver in the very last words, as if the caller were scared.

      Graham did everything by the book.

      “Ma’am, I’d appreciate it if we could make this official. Can you meet me at the station, give a statement?”

      “No. I won’t help if you make this official.”

      “How did you get this number?”

      “Look closer at Ethan. He’s not what he seems. The baby... It’s not what it seems.”

      “You’ll have to give me more to go on, ma’am. What am I supposed to be looking at?”

      The voice, now a vicious hiss: “Everything.”