Bound by Blood by John C Dalglish

Author:John C Dalglish [Dalglish, John C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-27T22:00:00+00:00

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The first pond turned out to be very shallow, and after about an hour of pinging the bottom, Jason and Vanessa had agreed with Morrow there was nothing there worth diving for. The team had packed the dingy back onto its trailer, and now the truck plus one of the EMS-type vans were slowly following Jason toward the back of the property. Vanessa had gone ahead and opened all three gates and was waiting for them by the other pond.

Twenty minutes later, SMART was unloading the dingy again. Jason and Vanessa stood next to the silo as the search began. For the second time, Jason found his nerves on edge as the boat started a back and forth pattern across the top of the water.

At the front pond, it had soon become clear that hiding something in what was essentially a shallow mud pit would have been foolish. Though they finished the grid search with the sonar, the anxiety of finding a body had quickly evaporated.

Now, as the new search began, the anxiety had returned, especially since they now believed a body had been inside the silo. Finding a deceased human being was never a pleasant thing, but the bloat that occurred in water was particularly gruesome.

For over an hour, the dingy moved over the water, slowly and methodically, until it reached near the center of the pond. The forward motion stopped, and they backed up a short distance then re-started. All four people in the boat, each wearing the bright red team jackets, hovered around the sonar screen.

Jason and Vanessa exchanged looks. Jason’s pulse surged. Brenda Morrow stood by the pond’s edge with a handheld radio. He went and stood next to her.

“Find something?”

She bobbed her head. “A distinct ping of something metal.”

“A knife?”

“Could be. Won’t know until we dive.”

The radio crackled. “We’ve marked the location, Lieutenant.”

“Okay. Proceed with search.”

Jason went back over to Vanessa to report the find. Vanessa’s face relaxed at the word knife. “I was holding my breath, praying it wasn’t a body.”

“Me, too.”

Another forty-five minutes passed as the search finished. When the dingy returned to shore, Morrow designated two of the four team members to don diving gear. The wind wasn’t as strong in the woods back by the silo, and with the sun out, it had become more tolerable to be outside. Regardless, Jason didn’t envy the divers who had to get in the cold water—wet suit or not.

The divers had quickly suited up, and after refreshing their memories on where the sonar hit had been, they walked into the water. The deeper pond soon swallowed the divers up, and the only sign of their location was the air bubbles along the surface, which Jason tracked until they settled over the search area. There, the combination of both divers created a concentration of bubbling water. To Jason’s surprise, in under two minutes, a diver surfaced holding an object above his head. The blade of a knife glinted in the early afternoon sun.

Vanessa pumped her fist.

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