Mission--Colton Justice by Jennifer Morey

Author:Jennifer Morey [Morey, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Romantic Suspense
Published: 2017-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

A witness came through and claimed to have seen a black Suburban drive by their house. The man had just gotten home from work. He saw a man driving and a young boy with his hands flattened against the backseat window. While that had torn Jeremy’s heart out, he had new hope in finding him. Knox took him along to the witness’s house, where Knox questioned him on the front porch.

“I saw him drive down the street. He may have turned left at the stop sign. I can’t be sure,” the witness had said.

Jeremy and Knox went door to door while the sheriff’s deputies searched the entire neighborhood for any sign of a Suburban—or Jamie. Jeremy had to hand it to them. They carried out the search with thorough professionalism.

After leaving the tenth or eleventh door, Jeremy began to lose his flicker of hope. But then Knox’s phone rang and he went a little still and said, “We’re on our way.” As he walked fast to his car, he said to Jeremy, “Someone else spotted the Suburban. Get in.”

Jeremy did, and Knox sped a few blocks away to the edge of town and a small, two-story farmhouse; a light at the end of the driveway lit the way and an outdoor porch light welcomed them up the creaky steps. A tall, lanky man with short brown hair and green eyes opened the door, his wife beside him. She was much shorter with her red hair up in a ponytail. The man put his arm around her and she looked up at him with love. The two had lots of land but probably not much money.

“You Sheriff Colton?” the man asked Jeremy.

Jeremy thumbed over toward Knox. “He is.”

“We’ve heard a boy went missing.”

“My son, Jamie,” Jeremy said.

The man nodded and the woman looked sympathetic.

“My neighbor stopped by and said deputies were searching a few blocks from here,” the farmer said.

“That’s right. Dispatch said you saw a black Suburban?” Knox said.

“Yeah. I was finishing up in the barn when I saw it drive by. He was driving fast and there was a boy in the back. He sort of moved across the back seat like he saw me and wanted to get my attention. He put his hand on the window, pounding it a few times. You know how kids can be. I thought he was just foolin’ around.”

It pained Jeremy intensely to hear that. Jamie hadn’t been fooling around. He’d been trying to get the farmer’s attention all right, but for help.

“Did you see where the Suburban went?”

The farmer pointed down the street. “That way.”

“That way” was a long stretch of highway leading out of town. Jeremy’s heart plummeted with dread.

“I’m sorry, mister,” the farmer said to Jeremy. “I wish I’d have heard about the missing boy sooner, especially that he’d been taken in a black Suburban.”

“We have two boys ourselves,” his wife said. “I can’t imagine how horrible it would be to lose one of them.”

Jeremy wouldn’t comment on how horrible it was that he’d lost Jamie.

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