Flight Risk by Cara C. Putman

Author:Cara C. Putman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2020-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

An Ode to Dustin Tate

Men hide from the trueth

because their evil will destroy them.

They harm children knowing that

destruction is coming. Vengeance is

mine.

Jett studied the tweet on his monitor. What did it mean, if it wasn’t gobbledygook? But this post had 8,628 likes and several hundred retweets. It didn’t make sense, but he’d checked the numbers a couple of times.

He checked the handle. UndergroundVigil486. That was familiar, so he flipped back through his notes on his tablet. Yep, there it was with an earlier tweet. What was this person’s thing with the innocent and children? Was the first tweet connected to this one?

Jett scrolled through prior posts, but there weren’t many. A few retweets of people Jett didn’t know. Then he saw a retweet of InsiderWDCStyle. Yep, another one of the tweets he’d noticed. Interesting.

But that tweet hadn’t taken off like this one. This one was gaining traction in the aftermath of Dustin Tate’s death. He should check into them further. His leads were dwindling.

Tweets = not much to go on.

Agency = nada.

Bernard Julius = zilch.

The cacophony of background noise wasn’t providing the soundtrack he needed to keep his thoughts focused.

What he needed was a combination square in his hand, so he could use the ruler and leveler to find the corners of the truth and gauge the importance of the tweets. In the careful placement of the ruler he might let his subconscious work on the problem.

Someone rapped on his cube wall, and he pivoted in his chair to find Chase standing there. The young reporter held a sheaf of papers. “Hey, boss. Wanted you to know I haven’t found any nonprofits or other businesses with the name you gave me today.”

“Hmm. Can you show me what you did?” He stood and followed the young man back to his small cube.

Chase looked a bit like a kid who was trying to make a spontaneous presentation. Was that sweat breaking out on his forehead? “I looked everywhere you told me to.”

“I believe you. I just want to see, so I can figure out where to look next.”

The kid sank onto his chair and then pushed hair out of his eyes. He began clicking through websites with running commentary. “See, I checked Guidestar and each of the secretary of states’ websites. Do you have any idea how long that took?”

“I’m guessing a couple hours.”

The young man’s eyes widened. “Exactly. How do you do that?”

“I had these kinds of assignments when I started out. It’s also why I decided to ask you to do it. Save my time for harder work.” Like beating his head against a wall studying the language in a tweet. Such a great use of the time.

“What now?” Chase poised his fingers over his keyboard as if ready to launch into the next assignment.

“Hold up. Let’s think strategically.” He thought a minute. “You’ve checked all the obvious places. What about the IRS website?”

“What do you mean?” Chase grabbed a pad of paper and a pen.

“We can check the tax-exempt organization database.

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