Case 36: A Society Series Companion Story (The Society Series) by Mason Sabre

Author:Mason Sabre [Sabre, Mason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Wolf Books
Published: 2020-08-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

It felt wrong to leave Casey in the pipe all by himself. He was six and small and all alone, and though Cade told himself the kid was dead, his brain didn't seem to want to agree. It felt like he was leaving a long-inured child in the pipe by himself for the monster to come. But the monster had already been—he'd been, and he'd done that, and there was nothing in the world that would have ever brought that child back from the dead.

By the time he got back to Gemma and Phoenix, his skin was clammy. He wanted to go home and shower, to wash off the smell, but mostly to wash off the death as if the water might wash away what he’d just seen.

“It’s Casey,” he said.

“Shit.”

"Yep." He wiped a hand around his face, across his mouth and came away from Gemma, Phoenix and Stephen. He just needed a minute to be alone, to process this, and to decide what was next. In some compartment in his head, he needed to find a place to put Casey, the child he was looking for, and Casey the body they'd found. He needed Casey to go back to being it. To being a nothing.

“Do you think he washed up there?” Phoenix said. “Gemma said he’s missing from Baker Hall Farm.”

"Maybe." Baker Hall was just across the river to where they were. They could see part of it—the roof of the main farmhouse mostly. The cabins were on the surrounding land, and like anything that had a piece of land around the edge of the river, there was a jetty that ran all the way up the bank. Right then, it had a small boat tied to it—a fishing boat.

“It could be,” Stephen said. “There was no blood, nothing to say he’d been eat--attacked there and all that crap covering him.”

Stephen might have cut off his word, but Gemma caught it. ‘Something ate him?”

That earnt Stephen a not too friendly glare from Cade. He’d wanted to spare her the grisly details. “Not something, someone,” he said because now she knew, she’d ask. “Marks like we saw down there, they’re not animals. If this was a shifter, he did this in human form.”

“Oh, God.”

“Yep.”

“And it’s definitely Casey? You’re sure of that?”

"As sure as I am that this is going to be one fucked up explosion if we don't find who did it and fast. And they left no clues. Like Stephen said, no blood, no evidence." No clothes, but he spared that part because no clothes on a kid could mean nothing and everything none of them needed or wanted to think about.

“Do you think someone did that to him and then dumped him in the river and he got washed up?” Stephen said.

“Yeah. It seems that way, which means we’ve got zero evidence to go on because the river will have taken it.” It was easy for bodies to get washed up in the pipe, not that they did often, but when the pipe wasn’t pumping out shit, it did get stuff lodged in the front of it.

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