Signed,
The Erchomai” Agent Adaline Carrillo lingered by the window of the Willow’s Peak Precinct. After fourteen grueling hours of debriefings and debates that could wake the dead, she let her gaze drop to the case folders on the cluttered table. The Erchomai Case was new to the small town just west of Virginia. The first and second cases (the victims were named Hollie Trackwell and Daisy Barnes) were …show more content…
She groaned. Her body ached so much. She slowly open her eyes and squeezed them shut when they came in contact with the florescent lights of the hospital room.
“Miss Adaline?” a nurse said.
“She’s waking up! It’s about damn time,” Cole said and felt the relief seep into him. After the case, their injuries were pretty severe. But poor Adaline suffered the most with her broken leg and severe concussion. Cole came out of the accident with rough looking bruises and a cut so deep, it felt like someone stabbed him.
“Did we get him?” Adaline rasped, her eyes already feeling heavy.
“Get him? Let’s just say we have a new Chief now and the other is six feet below.” Cole exclaimed and held Adaline’s hand as she fell back into the safety of sleep.
The fourth letter was never read to anyone but to the family. They immediately threw it into their fireplace, the embers of fire eating the malice of the Erchomai gone forever. All four bodies made it to their final resting places, their families at ease and grief. Willow’s Peak had its fifteen minutes of fame and was now as invisible as the prayers to the families. And everyone was thankful for