Blink by Sasha Dawn

Author:Sasha Dawn [Dawn, Sasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fiction-Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction, Mystery, Mysteries, Detective Story, Detective Stories, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Thiller, Suspense, Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense, Social Themes, Violence, Violent, Blink, Carolrhoda Lab, Danger, Families, Love, Mysteries, Mystery, Relationship, Relationships, Sasha Dawn, Secrets, Teen, Teenager, Teenagers, Teens, Thriller, Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense, Young Adult Readers
ISBN: 9781541516649
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2017-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

R e c o n n a i s s a n c e

All day, I keep an eye on the breaking news, which isn’t too difficult. It seems the whole school wants to know what’s happening in rural Georgia and how it connects to the girl who was taken not five miles from here when we were all little kids.

But I’m a little more invested than most.

Instead of eating lunch with my team, I’m in the library, researching. I figure there might be a new story about the foster children living on the Goudy tract, now that there’s national news happening there. And I’m right.

Police records show there might have been typical complaints and challenges of raising teenagers—no mention of Savannah’s outrageous allegations about the girl kept under the floorboards—but no known formal complaints against the Goudys have been filed with Family Services until the woman Chatham identified as her birth mother recently started ranting at the Goudy gate.

As for Chatham’s birth mother—identified as J. Stevenson—the list of complaints against her with the state of Georgia is extensive. It seems she’s been in and out of prison as often as she’s been in and out of rehab. Her testimony at the gate of the Goudy tract has been determined as nonsensical and a nuisance to the investigation.

But one investigative reporter points out: if it’s nonsense, why can’t the authorities comment on the whereabouts of the two foster children entrusted to Loretta and Wayne Goudy?

Furthermore, why haven’t the minor children been reported missing, if not considered endangered, as no one has seen them since the investigation began?

Police neglect to comment, except to say Loretta is cooperating, and if there’s reason to presume the girls are missing, reports will follow.

This is strange.

Because technically, they are missing . . .

Chatham is in Sugar Creek without her foster parents, and according to what she told me, they don’t know she’s here.

Savannah may or may not be in Northgate. No one knows where she is . . . unless Chatham’s lies extend beyond knowing or not knowing the girl with the shamrock tattoo.

What’s going on?

I send the link to Chatham, hoping she’ll volunteer some information or want to clarify.

I search for information about J. Stevenson’s hot Nissan and the day she left her kids inside it. Now that I know her name, it’s easier to find information. There are a few old articles, but none offer much information about the children.

I look up Chatham Stevenson. Nothing of importance hits.

I try Chatham Goudy. No dice.

I text her again: Everything okay?

Minutes go by, and Chatham doesn’t reply.

Hello?

Nothing.

Panic booms like thunder through my system.

She’s with my sisters.

“Jesus.” Not that she’d deliberately put my sisters in danger, but what if she’s in danger, and they’re with her?

My mouth goes dry.

This is all too familiar. Memories emerge from dark places:

Rosie leaves me with some guy. She has no choice. She has to work. And he’s a nice guy, after all . . . who just happens to get his kicks beating the fuck out of his son, and watching his son beat the fuck out of me.

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