Gabe's Mate

, two trees housed a hammock. On the big wrap-around porch there were two big wooden rocking chairs. To the left of the rocking chairs, a glass table and four chairs sat.

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Pictures are placed on top of the mantel. One picture caught her eye of a small little girl smiling back at the camera. Her blond ringlets lay loosely around her

The name rang fami

rapher. When Mikayla came up missing my world stopped. She and her sister were my best friends. Three peas in a pod. Three months after her disappearance they found her body at the bottom of a well. By then the girl's father and sister had vanished. It was because of her that I decided I would find her killer and bring him to justice. She's the reason I became a detective. I know

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d hear her sister's screams and cries in the woods behind their house. She ran to the boy who was her friend. He opened the door and

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looked at the man standing next to her. He

her." She looked back at the picture

ragged her to the woods behind our house. I heard my sisters' final moments. He was hurting her, and I couldn't do anything to s

her father to be punished for what he did to Mikayla, and she was more than ready to tell her story. Gabe hugged her tightly then lead her down a long hallway. He opened the door on the right and walked inside. Shyla walked into the most amazing room she had ever been in. The room wa

to read. I guessed titl

hey would take a trip back to their hometown. He knew this wasn't going to be easy for Shyla, but he saw the determination i

h. He sat on a chair at the end of the dock overlooking the lake. Images of a little blond girl with blue eyes invaded his mind. His head dropped

with playing games with. Finally, someone wanted to know the truth about what happened to Mikayla all those years ago.