Chapter 8

“Did this Michael check to see if they survived?”

“He said he did. By the time he got to the car, it was burned up, so he looked to see if anyone had been thrown out and found me.”

“It must have hit the rocks. Damned hard to burst into flames, unless it went over the side and blew up when it hit the ground. Tell you what. If you want, I can ask Sheriff Thompson if there were any reports of a car going over a cliff. There are not too many places around here that I know of where that could happen. The roads either have mountains on each side or guardrails when they don’t.”

Derek closed his eyes for a minute, trying to recall the last things he’d seen before the accident. “The road fell off on one side. I think Mom told Dad to be real careful about any cars coming toward us.You know, like they might not see us on the curves and if he had to get out of the way, we could go over.” He shrugged. “Maybe the guardrail was broken?”