CHAPTER 24 - REED
KIM DIDN’T SPEAK, just walked back towards the kitchen, and Wyatt and I both followed. The TV beside the fridge was on, the volume low, and a sombre reporter from the local news channel spoke to the camera from a dimly lit street.
Wyatt grabbed the remote and turned it up.
Friends say Katia de Bruin was stressed over upcoming exams, but as a diligent student, she’d never have skipped class or done anything to jeopardise her future in business. So the question remains, where did she go after she left Bar One in the early hours of yesterday morning? Police are appealing for anybody who saw her to come forward after one witness reported seeing a girl fitting Katia’s description talking to a dark-haired man beside a black car. Katia’s parents have offered a twenty-thousand
