Nothing But Good by Kess McKinley

Author:Kess McKinley [McKinley, Tess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, Romance, Suspense
ISBN: 9781935560821
Publisher: Blind Eye Books
Published: 2021-05-02T17:23:42+00:00

Chapter 10

U still up?

What r u wearing?

After a week, the FBI had finally been granted access to the dating app Henry O’Brien had been active on a few months before his death. After spending hours reading through hundreds of messages that all followed roughly the same script, Jefferson didn’t feel like he’d learned anything new about their victim. The poor sap messaged a new woman almost every day, but from what Jefferson could tell, he rarely progressed to meeting them in person. Jefferson had never tried online dating himself and he was increasingly convinced he hadn’t missed anything by going without.

Going back six months yielded nothing of note, so Jefferson switched tactics. They’d also been given the login information for Henry’s social media accounts, which were otherwise locked from public view. He started with Henry’s own photos. Like many people these days, Henry seemed to consider himself a semi-professional photographer. Most of his recent pictures were either landscapes, mostly early morning scenes from South Boston beaches, or artistic close-ups—like a lone piece of sea glass resting in the sand or a carving of names in a tree trunk.

It took a fair amount of scrolling through the grid before Jefferson reached any pictures with people in them. Then, one of them stopped him in his tracks. The photo showed Henry and his roommate Peter McDonnell standing on the pedestrian walkway on top of the Mass Ave Bridge. They posed on either side of a quirky piece of graffiti that read: 364.4 smoots + 1 ear.

Both of them looked like they were holding back laughter as the wind ruffled their hair and rowers passed by on the water beneath the bridge.

Jefferson had an almost identical, albeit much worse quality, photo of him and Finny from sophomore year. For several long seconds he couldn’t tear his eyes away from those two grinning boys. He felt the same tug of connection to Peter that had knocked him silent during their initial interview the day that Henry’s body had been discovered. People generally understood the impact of losing a family member or significant other. But it could be equally devastating to lose a friend.

He struggled more than usual to detach as he kept going through Henry’s photos. He didn’t want to see any more shots of Henry looking happy, surrounded by people who would never see him laugh again.

Several dozen photos in, Jefferson reached one of Henry in a Bruins jersey. It predated the night he’d been taken but was almost certainly the same jersey he’d been wearing when he died. In a flash, he remembered something Henry’s friend Bo had told him: There was a girl a section over from us. Henry stood up to wave to her a little into the first period. He’d been on his phone before that, scrolling through Instagram.

Could Jefferson find that woman? Maybe she’d noticed someone in their section that Peter, Bo, and Julie hadn’t? Or maybe there’d been someone with her at the game who’d noticed Henry .

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