New scene in updated "Existence"
This is one of the added scenes when I rewrote Book 1: Existence. The new version is a more complete story and has much more of Detective Joe Gordon and Mikey, Joe's informant who gets mixed up with Thea and "Scary Man"... Joe closed the last of the files on the last six months of underage missing persons cases and sat back in his chair. He sighed heavily and rubbed his eyes with both hands as he let his head hang back over the top of the wooden support, cushioned by the leather collar of his trench coat. He had found it, the pattern he had been looking for. An increase in missing persons cases involving minors started about five months ago or so. Most of them foster kids, all of them with a history of trouble, either with the police or with school and all of them never heard from again, not even in mug shots. That little part of his brain was tugging at him again, indicating more sleepless nights until he looked into this further. There was a brief knock on hi