Bad Moon Rising by John Galligan

Author:John Galligan [Galligan, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2021-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Heading back to her family, Sheriff Kick made the call she had been dreading. Inside a home in Massachusetts, the phone rang one and a half times.

“Hello?”

“Hello.” She tried to keep her voice even, unemotional. “Is this Colleen Greevey?”

“It is.”

“My name is Heidi Kick. I’m the sheriff of Bad Axe County, in southwestern Wisconsin.”

“I see. Yes. Hello.”

His mother sounded defeated. Probably she had answered this same kind of call a dozen times before.

“Are you the mother of Daniel Allen Greevey?”

“Yes, yes, that’s me.” She sighed heavily. “What is it?”

“Well… I’m afraid I have some sad news. Are you in a place where you can talk?”

Through the silence, the sheriff sped north along the highway, waiting for a cue to continue. The sunset was complete. The sky had transitioned to an exhausted black-and-blue. The roads, fields, and forests breathed back their accumulated heat, making the night air so heavy that she could feel the Charger straining against it.

“He was a good boy…”

Daniel Greevey’s mom made it only that far before she crumpled.

“And we… did everything we knew… how to do. No matter what…”

The sheriff said, “I’m so sorry.”

She waited with the details while the grieving mother wept.

“No matter what,” Colleen Greevey managed at last, “he’ll always be my little boy. He will always be my baby.”

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