The Hidden Door by Dani Wade

Author:Dani Wade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dani Wade

Chapter Twenty

“I swear to God, this town is filled with a bunch of assholes,” Knox said as he walked through the door into the underground security suite near the gym in the basement. He scowled at Gray, though his friend had done nothing to deserve it. Still, the aggravation from the trip to the funeral home hammered away at Knox’s attitude.

“Let me guess—you met the always personable Jack Forrester?”

“That man’s an asshole,” Knox vented.

“More like an upper-class wannabe…but I agree. Also he’s most people’s only chance of having their loved ones buried.”

Knox shook his head. “I don’t get this town, man.” He thought he had, but he’d only seen the glossy surface presented to him without digging deeper. “Are these people really such assholes?” Guess his brain was on repeat.

“Thornbury Woods is more assholey than most,” Gray said with a grin. “There’s always been something about this town. It keeps a firm boundary between the haves and have-nots. The only way to cross the line is if you’re offering charity—that must be accepted with properly humble thanks.”

“Are they all that bad?”

“No, but anything outside is an abnormality, not the norm. It’s like a stigma is firmly attached to the lower classes and can’t be removed.” Gray looked thoughtful. “No matter what you do, it never really goes away. What can you do?”

“Was it that way for you?” Knox asked, knowing that Gray had grown up in town before moving in as a scholarship student at the preparatory school.

Gray looked away, confirming Knox’s concern. Finally he explained, “Why do you think I kept to myself? You never know how far that attitude has spread or who’s going to adopt it just because they can.”

“Then why would you agree to come back here?”

Gray was straight up. “To do something good. Hopefully to make a difference.”

Knox was continuously amazed that all the shit that had gone down in his life hadn’t utterly ruined his friend.

Gray seemed a little distracted. “I know it’s frustrating, but we have a bigger problem.”

Good. If Knox spent any more time thinking about this, he was going to go crazy. Knowing Sara was down in the library, alone, and he had to stay away made him jittery. Even though he realized this was a matter of too close, too soon.

They knew nothing about each other, at least the everyday lives of each other. But Knox’s mind and body were unconvinced. His attachment was rapidly outdistancing his control.

As he had made his way down to the basement security office, he’d catalogued the steps they’d taken in this investigation from the beginning. Have they done everything they could?

They’d searched Lou’s car. His workspace. The tunnels. Gray and the security force, along with some of the workmen, had searched the woods all the way to Victor’s property line, and the Chesapeake Mountains at the back, even though that amount of land had taken all day. They found no trace of anything. It was like the men, Lou, the wheelbarrow…they had all just disappeared.

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