Apprehended (Amber Alert Series Book 3) Read Online Free Page B
Author: Sara Schoen
interrupted me again.
"So is it really about being selfish and thinking about only yourself? I see it the other way around and it looks like Anna and Audrey would agree. They both put others before themselves so that the other could escape, sometimes while leaving themselves in harm's way. Audrey stayed with Steve for almost an extra week to let her mother escape, and Anna took you with her when you were six even though you would just slow her down. Now why would they do that if the only way to get out of that situation was to take care of themselves? Audrey would have needed to leave her own mother behind, and Anna would have had to leave a defenseless young girl behind. To me that looks more like a team mentality than a solo one."
I was about to speak up and defend myself when Jason raced into the room. His eyes were bulging out of his head as he raced into the room, and his breath was shallow as if he ran a marathon before coming in here.
"What's wrong, Jason? Are you okay?"
"We've got a body," he blurted out before racing off again to get the rest of the team. Callum and I turned to each other before forcing ourselves out of our seats and following after Jason. Who was dead and how did she die? Did we somehow end up with a body count higher than the number of girls that had already been kidnapped?
I shivered. Things were escalating quicker than I was comfortable with.
Chapter 5
The team filed into one car and waited patiently, and wordlessly, as we traveled toward the airport. I wanted to break the silence, but the serious expressions on their faces told me that I was better off staying quiet. We had caught a flight to Colorado, the sight of the last kidnapping and where the body had been dumped. From the police reports it was the girl he had just taken from campus, but she was in a different girl's clothes.
I felt a shiver run up my spine as I remembered the photos. They were enough to make me sick, while Callum’s team seemed completely unaffected. They talked about them so easily, as if the photos were family pictures taken at a reunion. They didn't even stutter over the one that a cop had taken to show us the note left on her body. "I grabbed the wrong girl, but I will find her. There's nothing you can do about it." There wasn't a single moment of hesitation as they looked them over, or even a moment of silence.
"Looks like he dropped her off on a blind curve in the road," Jason stated as he looked at an aerial of the area Audrey Thompson had been disposed at.
"So that way no one could see him while he dropped her body off and to anyone who passed it would look like his car was just stuck or broken down," Callum added as he handed me the photo of the 'U' shaped turn. The turn was tight, it had to be taken at a slow speed, with a focused driver so that no one would get injured—it was one of those turns that caused young teens and adults alike to lose their lives.
It made me wonder, how many people passed by before someone noticed her body? How many people could have intervened or seen something that would have helped?
"Looks like he plans efficiently, he's probably pretty organized," Abby added as she looked over the aerial photo. "He picked a spot that few go to unless they have to and would be hard to be noticed at."
"He also knew that while few would pay attention to him, eventually someone would notice and call it in. He wanted us to see this, but not until he was out of the area," Kate stated as she handed the photo to Darrell.
"He would have to be organized and thoughtful in order to keep the girls under control," Darrell added. "He has at least twelve that we know of, if not more. He had older girls from past years and could’ve planned more efficiently for the next one."
"Or he's taking them and keeping them," I retorted, remembering Jason's suggestion back in Virginia.
"What makes you say that? Steve Bennett never kept the girls he took together,"
"So is it really about being selfish and thinking about only yourself? I see it the other way around and it looks like Anna and Audrey would agree. They both put others before themselves so that the other could escape, sometimes while leaving themselves in harm's way. Audrey stayed with Steve for almost an extra week to let her mother escape, and Anna took you with her when you were six even though you would just slow her down. Now why would they do that if the only way to get out of that situation was to take care of themselves? Audrey would have needed to leave her own mother behind, and Anna would have had to leave a defenseless young girl behind. To me that looks more like a team mentality than a solo one."
I was about to speak up and defend myself when Jason raced into the room. His eyes were bulging out of his head as he raced into the room, and his breath was shallow as if he ran a marathon before coming in here.
"What's wrong, Jason? Are you okay?"
"We've got a body," he blurted out before racing off again to get the rest of the team. Callum and I turned to each other before forcing ourselves out of our seats and following after Jason. Who was dead and how did she die? Did we somehow end up with a body count higher than the number of girls that had already been kidnapped?
I shivered. Things were escalating quicker than I was comfortable with.
Chapter 5
The team filed into one car and waited patiently, and wordlessly, as we traveled toward the airport. I wanted to break the silence, but the serious expressions on their faces told me that I was better off staying quiet. We had caught a flight to Colorado, the sight of the last kidnapping and where the body had been dumped. From the police reports it was the girl he had just taken from campus, but she was in a different girl's clothes.
I felt a shiver run up my spine as I remembered the photos. They were enough to make me sick, while Callum’s team seemed completely unaffected. They talked about them so easily, as if the photos were family pictures taken at a reunion. They didn't even stutter over the one that a cop had taken to show us the note left on her body. "I grabbed the wrong girl, but I will find her. There's nothing you can do about it." There wasn't a single moment of hesitation as they looked them over, or even a moment of silence.
"Looks like he dropped her off on a blind curve in the road," Jason stated as he looked at an aerial of the area Audrey Thompson had been disposed at.
"So that way no one could see him while he dropped her body off and to anyone who passed it would look like his car was just stuck or broken down," Callum added as he handed me the photo of the 'U' shaped turn. The turn was tight, it had to be taken at a slow speed, with a focused driver so that no one would get injured—it was one of those turns that caused young teens and adults alike to lose their lives.
It made me wonder, how many people passed by before someone noticed her body? How many people could have intervened or seen something that would have helped?
"Looks like he plans efficiently, he's probably pretty organized," Abby added as she looked over the aerial photo. "He picked a spot that few go to unless they have to and would be hard to be noticed at."
"He also knew that while few would pay attention to him, eventually someone would notice and call it in. He wanted us to see this, but not until he was out of the area," Kate stated as she handed the photo to Darrell.
"He would have to be organized and thoughtful in order to keep the girls under control," Darrell added. "He has at least twelve that we know of, if not more. He had older girls from past years and could’ve planned more efficiently for the next one."
"Or he's taking them and keeping them," I retorted, remembering Jason's suggestion back in Virginia.
"What makes you say that? Steve Bennett never kept the girls he took together,"
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