~ JESSICA ~
My eyes remained glued to the phone as I scrolled through the articles and reports about Officer Raymond Bradley's meteoric rise from a police officer to the commissioner within the last ten years. He'd become police commissioner two years after my parents' death and had won every election since. There were even rumors about a secret benefactor behind the commissioner, but those were dismissed as hearsay by both the police and news outlets.
Dismissed by them, yes, but not by me. I wasn't going to rule anything out. For all I knew, this secret benefactor could be the key to finding out if my parents' death was foul play or if it had just been a terrible accident, just as they'd said.
My thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a knock on the door. I lifted my head from the scre
