Olivia Knight FBI Mystery 11-Into the Night by Gray Elle-Gray K S

Author:Gray, Elle-Gray, K S [Gray, Elle-Gray, K S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, American Suspense, Police Procedural, Crime Thriller, Investigation, FBI Agent, Virginia
Publisher: Elle Gray , K.S. Gray
Published: 2023-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

Olivia didn’t know what she had expected when she entered Sammy’s old school on her way to visit the principal. Perhaps she had thought there would be a kind of silence there, like everyone was paying their respects to the girl who had just died. Maybe she thought there would be a huge memorial to her, painting an image of the person that everyone had lost that night. Maybe people would be solemn, knowing that a young girl had been brutally murdered.

But it wasn’t like that at all. The moment she stepped inside the school, it was filled with noise—chatter, laughter, coughing. A symphony of life being lived. She felt her heart grow heavy as she and Brock navigated their way through the halls, towering over the students who seemed to have forgotten what happened to one of their peers less than a week before. She didn’t even hear anyone talking about it as gossip was exchanged in the halls. It was as if it hadn’t even happened at all.

Was Sammy really so invisible at the school? She had friends, a boyfriend, teachers… and yet it was like she had barely managed to make a mark on the world. Olivia caught sight of a single locker decorated with black roses, stuck to it with Scotch tape. There was a blurry picture of Sammy beside the roses where she was smiling and laughing at the camera. But even as the memorial remained in plain sight, others walked past it like it wasn’t even there. Like she was some outsider to the town, not someone who had lived there her entire life. The people in that school had known her since she was a kid. Did that not mean anything at all?

Olivia wasn’t sure why it bothered her so much. She knew from the start that Sammy wasn’t popular, though she was well-loved by her friends. Even after everything she had done, she still mattered to them, and made an imprint on their lives that would never be removed.

And yet it still felt like she had already faded into the background, like her death had taken place in a trashy movie that no one enjoyed, not in real life. Everyone was already itching to leave the movie theater, to move on with their life and leave her behind. Olivia swallowed, wondering if someday, it would be the same for her, for the people she loved. Did no one’s life really matter in the scheme of things?

“Don’t think about it,” Brock said to her, his hand on her elbow as they navigated the corridors. “They’re all kids. They don’t really know any better than to treat it so casually… I bet it doesn’t even seem real to them.”

Olivia shook her head in despair. “A girl is dead. She was butchered in their hometown. And they don’t seem to care. They don’t even seem afraid. How has it come to this? What am I missing?”

Brock sighed. “They’re desensitized. They’ve all grown up binging true crime documentaries and living through social media.

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