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When his phone rang, Mitchell excused himself and moved away from the waiting area, leaving the Wrights: Glen, Kieran and Tara, to their wait for someone to come and let them know what the situation was with Emily. Melissa was there as well, though so lost in her grief over the murder of her cousin she was oblivious to just about everything around her.
“Have you been able to find the Hawkins?” Mitchell asked once he had exchanged pleasantries with his superior.
“Yes, but it wasn’t easy,” Stevens said. “It seems they’re away at the moment, which is why they didn’t report Daisy missing; they weren’t aware she was, though you’d have thought the school would have been in touch to find out why she wasn’t there today. I had to get their contact details from a neighbour; they left on a fami
