Kate's Christmas by Sarah Holman

Author:Sarah Holman [Holman, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-27T18:30:00+00:00

The Picture

Saturday, December 5 12:45PM

Patrick laughed. He couldn’t help it. “It was a what?”

“Hey, you weren’t that close.” Brian gave him a light punch in the arm. “It shouldn’t have affected your hearing.”

“I’m sorry, I’m just having a hard time believing you.”

Thomas crossed his arms. “Believe it. It was a World War Two grenade that had been donated to the thrift store along with other historical paraphernalia. The worker carelessly handled it.”

Brian cleared his throat. “I think the words you are looking for, Mr. President, is the guy acted as if he were invincible and pulled out the pin. Who did he think he was? A superhero? No! A supervillain!”

“And,” Thomas continued with a glare at Brian, “it went off. Good news is that no one was seriously hurt, bad news is it has spread panic. We’re putting out the word that this wasn’t related to the other bombings, but it’s hard to combat the fact it was already reported as one.”

“None of these leads feel right,” Kim remarked, looking at the digital screen that held their suspects.

“I agree,” Brian said.

“We have surveillance watching some of our suspects, but so far we haven’t seen anything suspicious,” Logan said.

“And as a helpful reminder, my supervisor reminded me that we are fast approaching the Dickens of a Christmas festival,” Thomas said.

If the supervisor had mentioned that, it was possible Thomas had spoken with him about Kate’s situation. Maybe after this meeting, they could talk.

Thomas’s phone rang and he moved toward a corner of the meeting room.

“I’m trying to see if I can make any progress with Hal,” Kate said. “I tried messaging him through my fake social media account set up by the FBI. He responded that he really wasn’t interested in church people.”

Logan nodded. “I’ve talked with a lot of those from the church about the troubled kids that have come through their doors. I told them I was interested in starting a ministry to reach those kids and I wanted to know about the things they’ve faced. None of the troubled kids they mentioned raised any red flags.”

Thomas rejoined them, his face grave.

Patrick swallowed; this couldn’t be good news.

“There was another bombing in a neighborhood.”

The room grew silent.

“This time the package was hand delivered and the perpetrator seems to have made a fatal error.”

“He blew himself up?” Patrick said, sure the horror on his face showed.

“Let me rephrase: he made a mistake that may land him in jail a lot sooner than he thought.” He tapped on his phone and passed it around. “This was taken from the security camera of the house of an older woman. We still aren’t sure what her connection with the school is.”

Patrick took the phone and glanced down at the face, but he had never seen the young man before. He passed it to Kate.

“We are still—”

Kate gasped, cutting Thomas off. “It’s Janice’s brother.”

Logan snatched the phone, disbelief in her eyes. “It couldn’t… Well, the security footage is clear but…how could…” She set the phone down and started smashing her ball between her hands.

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