I Know Your Name: A Chilling Psychological Thriller (Wolf Lake Thriller Book 5) by Dan Padavona

Author:Dan Padavona [Padavona, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atticus LLC.
Published: 2021-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Saturday, 8:05 p.m.

Darren pulled the truck onto the gravel shoulder when the rain became too heavy to see through the windshield. Black clouds rushed overhead, torn tags snaking down and spinning around a vertical axis as wind whipped the car. Raven shot him a nervous look from the passenger seat when the truck vibrated during a gust. To their right, the Wells River crashed through its banks with utter madness. The river’s appetite for destruction had no bounds. It ripped chunks off the banks and swallowed the mud, only to spit it out when the river blasted against a dam.

It took ten minutes before the wind relented. Twigs stuck to the windshield wipers. Darren draped his jacket over his head and cleaned the glass, the rain lashing at his face as he wrestled the sticks out of the blades. A decayed, earthy scent mixed with a whiff of ozone. Lightning flashed through the sky.

“That was fun,” he said, climbing into the cab with a forced laugh.

Raven didn’t respond. Just stared out the passenger window with clenched hands as the river surged out of its banks.

They’d followed the Wells River on a combination of access roads and scenic overlooks, though there was nothing scenic about nature’s wrath. The river would meet the lake two miles to the east. No sign of Shawn. If he’d come this way, the storms erased his tracks hours ago.

Darren and Raven were the only searchers in the field. The sheriff’s department, police, and volunteers holed up until the storms rolled through. Between the lightning and flooded roads, the search had taken on a dangerous edge. The various entities wouldn’t risk one of their own plunging into the water, though Darren suspected Thomas was out there somewhere, ignoring the mandates.

A police band radio crackled inside the truck. Darren didn’t recognize the voices. A new crew had replaced the day shift at Wells Ferry PD. That was a good thing. Darren grew tired of dealing with Officers Barber and Neal, and their insistence that Kemp murdered Megan.

“Ready to move forward?”

Raven glanced across the cab and nodded, though Darren saw through her forced courage. The storms had shaken her, and his Silverado felt puny beneath the boiling sky.

Darren turned the key and pulled the truck off the shoulder. Rivulets streamed across the pavement, dragging silt and mud over the macadam. The tires bucked over the obstruction, only to meet another hill of sludge a few hundred feet down the road. Night had descended on Wells Ferry. Trees along the access road thickened the darkness, made it seem like midnight in January as the wipers ran at high speed.

As he navigated the truck around a myriad of obstructions—fallen tree limbs, gurgling water, more mud—Raven leaned her head out the window with her hand shielding her head from the downpour. She scanned the banks for his missing cousin. Raven wouldn’t give up until Darren called off the search.

Which he’d need to do before long. Fate didn’t favor Shawn surviving the last twenty-plus hours in the forest.

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