Content warning: This chapter contains graphic imagery of violence and death. This material may be disturbing to some readers. Discretion is advised.
Jadea
It was a long shot.
Finding the girl alive that is.
We would be lucky indeed if Valdis was still with her.
We were nearing five in the morning. Dawn would soon be upon us all and Valdis would go back into whatever hole he disappeared into, which meant another opportunity to kill him and put an end to his reign of terror had slipped through our paws.
Garret, Blade and I had already searched several walnut orchards without any luck. We feared it had been too long. That we were only searching for a corpse.
As we went from orchard to orchard, we heard sirens and found several orchards with search parties out combing the areas. I was
