Bob's Greatest Mistake: Part Two of The Journals of Bob Drifter by M.L.S. Weech

Author:M.L.S. Weech [Weech, M.L.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Grim Reaper
Publisher: Self
Published: 2018-04-30T22:00:00+00:00

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Difficulties in Gathering Information

Richard set down his third cup of tea to give himself time to cool off. He’d visited three houses that day and ten in the last two weeks, trying to connect Drifter to any of the children. He even talked to the bus driver’s widow to no avail.

“So the teacher involved in the accident, he was at the funeral?” Richard asked.

“Yes,” Christine Engee replied. Her eight-year-old son was in Drifter’s class and died in the recent collision. She wiped some tears out of her eyes. Richard tried to give her some time to calm down before continuing.

“How did he seem at the funeral?” Richard asked.

“Hurt,” she said. “And sad.”

“Did he seem like he felt guilty?”

“Why would you ask that?”

“Sometimes a person involved in an accident feels guilty. It’s common survivor’s guilt,” Richard said, not sure if he was lying or not. He was pretending to be an accident investigator. He could only visit families he didn’t already interview when he first arrived in Syracuse. He wondered how anyone kept track of his or her lies. His mind hurt from trying to keep his story straight. So how does Drifter do it?

Christine sipped some of her tea, and Richard followed her example. It was a good, fancy blend of tea that tasted sharp and was darker than any tea he’d seen before.

“He might have,” she admitted.

“Might have or did?”

“I don’t know.”

“How ...” Richard stopped himself before he could raise his voice. He let his head drop in shame. Her son is dead, and I only care about a man who might have been involved. Kyle would be shocked.

“I’m sorry,” Richard admitted. “My wife didn’t die, but I lost her recently. I’m angry and sad. As bad as I feel, it can’t compare to what you’ve gone through. You don’t deserve any more stress.” But I know who deserves my rage.

Only he wasn’t so sure of that anymore. He’d started interviewing families to see if the parents noticed any special relationships between Drifter and their children. The teacher spent a lot of time with his victims before he killed them. Hertly noticed that in the last year of tracking the man. Someone would die, and everyone who knew that person had some sappy story about how Bob helped the deceased do this last thing or live this one dream or some such nonsense. He killed people, and they thanked him for it. Morons. Would I have ever thought so ill of the dead before Kyle died?

Richard took another sip of tea to silence his own mental argument. The point of the interviews was to see if Drifter had had a chance to get close to anyone, a potential target. Only not one of the families Richard had spoken to had ever spent more than five minutes with the teacher.

Then there was that thing Richard saw after the accident. It had to be some guy dressed up or just a trick of his eyes trying to get over the image of all those bodies.

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