In a Split Second by Timothy Glass

Author:Timothy Glass [Glass, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998412191
Publisher: Platinum Paw Press
Published: 2018-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Connor and Kate drove slowly from Mr. Jenkins’ house. As Connor drove, Kate busied herself in the police unit, examining the copy of the driver’s license Mr. Jenkins had given them. The rain hadn’t let up; rather, the steady rainfall had become a downpour. Visibility was poor, even with the wipers on high.

Kate hardly noticed the weather outside the car and how the branches of the tree-lined state road hung low, soaked with rain. She was too busy comparing Brad’s photo to the one on the copy of the driver’s license. The copy was grainy at best; therefore, intricate details were hard to make out.

“Connor, the photo on the driver’s license just doesn’t look like Brad Hopper. Remember when you showed Jenkins the photo of Brad from our file? He said he couldn’t be one hundred percent sure. It looks close but…”

“Kate, he also said the man who purchased the Glock was wearing a Western hat with the brim pulled down. That in itself could explain why he wasn’t able to definitively identify the man,” Connor said. He didn’t take his eyes off the wet, winding highway that curved in front of the police unit.

“But he also told us he couldn’t be certain the man with the hat was the man in our photo,” Kate said. “Look!” She held up the photocopy of the driver’s license.

Connor glanced at the photo. As he did, the police unit’s tires hydroplaned on the wet asphalt. Connor rapidly corrected his steering before the car began going off the highway, narrowly missing a guardrail.

“Kate, I’ll look at it once we get back to the PD.”

Kate muttered under her breath, “This photo is not Brad Hopper. The nose is all wrong.”

They approached a sharp curve, which Connor successfully navigated. As they came out of the curve, Kate looked up and screamed as Connor hit the brakes. Just ahead, an overturned car lay in their path.

Connor quickly pulled the police unit to the side of the rain-soaked shoulder and engaged the emergency lights on the police unit. “Call it in to dispatch!” Connor yelled as he jumped out of the unit to see if anyone was hurt.

Kate watched Connor run toward the overturned car. Her heart was beating hard and fast, and she felt short of breath for a few seconds. Even Sundae had perched her front paws on the back of the front seat, watching intently. Kate picked up the mic and gave dispatch their location. She reported that they had come upon an overturned car and that they needed a sheriff’s officer and an ambulance dispatched to the area.

Connor pulled the driver out and over to the side of the highway and started CPR. “ETA on the ambulance?” Connor asked, glancing at Kate. As she approached, he kept administering CPR.

“They said about five minutes or less. I put the flares behind our car. Anyone else in the vehicle?” Kate asked as she opened the first aid kit. She stacked several 4X4 gauze pads and used gauze wrap to hold the pads in place on the young man’s forehead.

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