The Lost Son: A Mystery Thriller by Ramona Light

Author:Ramona Light [Light, Ramona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

How Upset?

“I’m sorry we couldn’t meet alone,” Alan said, giving that half-smile that always seemed to stir something inside her. “But things are crazy at the station, and me and Terry gotta be workin’ ’round the clock till it calms down.”

“I get it,” Georgia replied, her hand coming up to the bump on her forehead. She nodded to the young detective at the counter getting their coffees. “He seems nice.”

Alan looked back over his broad shoulder at Terry Wakes. “Yeah, he was brought up right.”

They were sitting in a little diner that looked out over the Contoocook River. This area of Concord was drenched in thick, luxurious woodland, and the scenery had always been one of the reasons Georgia wanted to live her life in New Hampshire. Of course, over the last seven years, every river, lake, or body of trees had been tainted, and her mind instantly registered them as places where a child’s body might be rotting. It was a horrible way to feel, but it was something she knew would never leave her.

Alan turned back to her and brought his hand up to the lump on her head. After he had lumbered out of the black Buick in the diner’s gravel parking lot a few minutes before, he had done the exact same thing. He repeated the question he’d asked then.

“How did this happen again?”

She knew what he was getting at, as she always felt the same way in the hospital. Years of seeing the worst in people led a person to instantly think the worst, meaning a bruise on a woman just had to be domestic violence. Even though Alan knew William well enough, this skepticism seemed to trump everything else in his makeup.

“I fainted,” Georgia replied, smiling. It felt nice to have someone worry about her. “When I saw the news.”

“I bet,” was all Alan said. He removed his hand from her head but continued to look at the lump with questioning eyes.

After collapsing in their living room, Georgia had come around minutes later with her head pounding and a seemingly unconcerned William kneeling over her with a damp cloth. The news was still playing in the background, and it had only taken seconds for everything to sink back in. Her son’s killer had been caught, and she had fainted upon hearing the news.

That had been yesterday morning, and in the aftermath of everything they had just absorbed, William and Georgia had somehow managed to have another blazing row. His snarling comment that she probably thought the man who had just been arrested deserved a second chance had enraged her, and she had thrown the closest thing in her vicinity at him. This happened to be an ornamental vase given to them years before by William’s parents. She’d missed, but the sound of it exploding against the wall had been deafening.

William had actually spat on the TV screen, muttering unintelligible threats directed at who she hoped was Leonard Cole and not her, before grabbing his coat and storming out of the house.

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