Murder Creek by Jane Suen

Author:Jane Suen [Suen, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951002008
Published: 2019-08-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

“WERE YOU LOVERS?” I asked.

He didn’t seem surprised. He looked at me with a sad expression.

I knew he was in love with her. Still. And he was a man in pain, even after all these years.

I added, “Did you look for her?”

Jim sighed, rubbing his still red-rimmed eyes. “After what happened here, we had search parties going for days. My father, you know he was rich … well, he paid for people to join the search when we didn’t have the local capacity to keep it going.”

“He sounds like a good man,” I said, thinking of the nice things people said at his funeral. No one would ever speak ill of the dead. “What did you do?”

“We followed the creek downstream and searched the banks. It was slow going, covering the distance in the forests and on both sides of the creek. We had teams going around the clock.”

“Why did your dad pay for the search?”

He hesitated. “It was his way of helping.”

“Did you come across anything?”

“No, we found nothing. It was like she’d vanished into thin air.”

I swallowed and asked the question I dreaded. “Do you think she’s dead?”

“Everyone assumed that. But I, even now, hold the hope, the slimmest of hope, that one day we’ll find her.” He added in a low soft tone, “May she be in peace.”

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