Missing Person~The Beginning by James Hunt

Author:James Hunt [Hunt, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

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The lamp at Grant’s desk was the only light in the living room. Its yellow tones highlighted the cracks along the wall and the stains on the aged carpet. Bandit sat on the left side of Grant’s chair, sleeping, while Grant struggled to concentrate on the cases in front of him.

Grant had always associated crimes with a rock splashing in a pond. The criminal was the thrower, the victim the rock, and everyone else was the pond. And when that rock splashed into the water, it sent waves that affected every life that was close to them, and even some that weren’t. Their actions stretched far beyond the lives of the assailant and the victim.

Of the dozen files that Mocks had given him, only three had enough information for him to follow a trail beyond the notes of the detective that had taken the case. The other nine were negligently shoved aside, marked as lost causes before they even got off the ground. Those lost causes were a thirty-nine-year-old woman named Alicia Carver, stabbed nine times in the stomach and chest then raped. Another was a seven-year-old boy that was abducted ten years ago, their family never finding closure with either the capture of the abductor or the recovery of the child’s body.

Each of those “lost causes” was a life, taken from their home and from this life far before their time. And each left behind a crater in the lives of those that they had touched.

All he saw were the case file numbers and the few pieces of evidence that had been tagged with a few stray leads that were never followed. And so the families, the friends, anyone affected were left dealing with the aftermath without any answers. Without any justice.

Grant dropped the pencil he’d been wiggling for the past fifteen minutes and leaned back in his chair, rubbing his face. He stood, the need to feel his blood moving pushing him out the front door, Bandit waking and excitedly following him outside.

It was a clear night, and a cool summer breeze greeted Grant as he stared up to the starry sky. So long as there weren’t any clouds, the views at night were always a sight to behold. Away from the pollution of Seattle, Grant had discovered how much he enjoyed nature. There was a simple beauty to it that he could never find in the city. And while he missed being a detective, he didn’t miss the life that came with it.

Grant tried to force himself to remember all of the dinners and get-togethers he missed with his late wife. He tried to remember all of the built-up stress that accompanied the homicide cases he worked on when he first became a detective. And then he tried to force himself to remember all of the danger that he put himself and Mocks in on his last case four years ago. The same case that nearly killed Mocks and her husband.

He tried to remember, he tried to force himself to swallow that bad medicine, but he couldn’t.

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