Just Right by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2022-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Cami and Connor crowded together in the car and Cami opened her laptop, calling up the news article on the bigger screen so that it would be easier to read. They needed details here because she was sure this article was gold.

"It's a family who died, driving off a bridge in winter," she said. "'Tragic Crash Claims the Becker Family,' it's headlined. The car slipped on ice when they were close to Chicago. The car went into a lake and all six occupants drowned."

She closed her eyes for a moment. That was a terrible tragedy, and there was something about it that chilled her blood. She could imagine what it must have been like to be in that car. To feel it start to slide on the ice. To have that terrible lurch of the stomach as the car lost control and went spinning off the road to land in the deep lake that looked icy and inhospitable.

"It must have been the scariest thing," she said. "Traumatic for everyone. And they all died? That's just terrible. I mean, it always seems that in these accidents, one person at least manages to survive."

"And I see that there was a big family in the car," Connor said, peering intently at the article.

Cami nodded. "The Becker family. There was a mother, two daughters, a son, a grandmother, and an aunt. The daughters were in their late teens. The son was twenty. And they're all blonde. Very blonde."

She called up a photo of the family, looking at their smiling faces, their platinum hair, so innocent of the fate that awaited them in the icy lake.

"They do look similar to the victims. The ones that I've seen anyway, so far. Is this man trying to kill this family all over again?"

"Who wrote the article? It could be that there were some other details," Connor said. "Perhaps there was another family member involved, perhaps a jealous boyfriend, a husband who suffered guilt because he wasn't in the car? That has clear parallels to what we're seeing here. Now we need to take it further and look for the links."

Those were all good suggestions. Cami read the article again, looking for details that might be relevant. But the article was very basic. It said that they had been on their way home from a shopping trip, and that their community was left devastated. There were several quotes from people who were bemoaning that the bridge was too dangerous and that this should never have happened. That was it.

Finding nothing that raised red flags, she looked up the writer. They'd need to contact him next. Hopefully, he'd have a lot of background research that hadn’t made it into this brief article, but which could provide them with a starting point.

"James McCallum, here's his name," she said. "I'm going to call him right now."

Quickly, Cami looked up James's details. But immediately, she saw there was a problem.

"Connor, look here," she said.

"What is it? Can't you find information on him?" Connor asked.

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