The Darkest Point by John Hardy Bell

Author:John Hardy Bell [Bell, John Hardy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-29T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

MAKING AMENDS

As he walked the unnervingly quiet hallways of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation headquarters, Will Freeman couldn’t help but think that he was being set up.

He knew the notion was likely the result of an overactive imagination fueled by his days as a crime-beat reporter. But he’d been witness to the bloody aftermath of enough gangland-style executions to recognize the signs: a seemingly random phone call in the middle of the day, a voice on the other end that you didn’t expect but ultimately trusted, a meeting request vague on details in a remote location that you wouldn’t otherwise dream of visiting. And in this case, an escort who refused to look you in the eye no matter how much you attempted to engage him.

The little man knows what’s about to happen, Will thought of the front-desk clerk who checked him in and gave him his visitor’s badge, but otherwise didn’t speak.

The instant he’d gotten the call from Camille Grisham, he knew why she’d reached out. Will hadn’t given himself much time to consider the ramifications of posting the video of her statement and the subsequent confrontation with Jeremy Durant. He knew that there was more footage of the event out there, and if he hadn’t broken the story, someone else would have. Then he received the news about Jeremy Durant, his wife, and FBI Agent Stephen Wells, and suddenly, the ramifications of being first became horrifyingly clear.

His head told him that he wasn’t directly responsible for what happened to them. But there were long periods during the sleepless night that followed where his aching heart told him otherwise.

He expected Camille Grisham and her merry band of steel-plated G-Men to feel the same way. For Will, this was a news story, unusual yet highly compelling. But for Camille, it was literal life and death. Durant’s death meant that her father could possibly be one step closer to his own.

That particular reality had only sunk in for Will on the drive to CBI, as had the reality that Camille’s ambiguous meeting request most likely meant trouble for him.

Seeing Detective Chloe Sullivan’s name on the sign-in sheet in the space above his didn’t help. Sullivan had once been the partner of a detective who was the prime focus of his newspaper’s ongoing investigation into allegations of gross misconduct within the DPD. The now-deceased Walter Graham, from what Will could see, was as rotten as they came, and Detective Sullivan was in the unfortunate position of being guilty by mere association in the eyes of the reporters assigned to the story. Kyle McKenna, his head watchdog, was particularly aggressive in her pursuit of answers. Unlike Will, Kyle gave little thought to the personal entanglements that came with the job. The potential to alter the lives of the people who make the story never much bothered her, as long as the truth of their story was told. The pursuit of that truth was often a hard, messy fight that left many casualties in its wake.

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