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Chapter 26: What has sunk, shall rise again (part 9)

Junior quietly wandered close to me.

For a long moment, the waves were the only thing the two of us could hear as we both quietly stared at the tiny piece of chain, still covered in sand and dried, flaking blood.

"You think this could help the case?" I asked.

He sighed, shaking his head without a word.

I closed my eyes, hanging my head low.

No, of course not... what was I thinking? And even if it did, what would I even do? If I tell Wallace about what we had done, he will be mad at me for snooping around the scene especially when he just explicitly told me not to do from the get-go.

"We're not going to find anything here, aren't we?" I asked quietly, my voice almost lost to the sound of the crashing waves.

"...Let's just head back,"

With my shoulders slumped, I glumly nodded, fidgeting with my engagement ring as I stood up and followed after Junior on the way back to his car.