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The Truth Chronicles: The Contest (Book 2)

By Tim Chaffey, Joe Westbrook

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Jax Thompson screeched to a halt in his driveway, his eyes fixed on the unfamiliar black sedan parked in front of the garage. His mind raced furiously over what his mother had said on the phone just a few minutes earlier: “Just come home, now. It’s about your father.” What’s going on? Dad’s been dead for almost three years. After turning the car off, he jumped out the driver’s door and slammed it behind him.
An intimidating man in a black suit climbed out of the sedan and blocked his path to the house. “You must be Jax,” he said with an unconvincing smile before another man appeared on the driver’s side.
Is this the reason Mom sounded so frantic? Jax glared at the man who spoke to him. “Yeah, I’m Jax. Who are you?”
He flashed a badge and said, “I’m Special Agent Kimball and this is Special Agent Johnson. We’re conducting an investigation into the destruction of the lab where your father worked.”
Jax heard his front door open and turned to see his mom step out.
“Jax, come inside. You don’t have to talk to them.” She shifted her gaze to Agent Kimball, and her voice turned cold. “I told you I wanted you to leave before my son came home.”
“We’re sorry Mrs. Thompson,” Kimball said. “We were just leaving when he pulled up and thought we might as well ask him a few questions.”
“There’s nothing else he can tell you. Jax, come inside.”
Kimball stepped to the side. “We’ll keep you posted if we make any progress.”
Jax hurried up the steps to the door, pausing to look into his mother’s tense face. “Mom, what’s going on?”
“I’ll tell you in a minute,” she said, without taking her eyes off the agents in the driveway.
Frowning, Jax squeezed past her and sat on a couch in the living room. His mom continued her watch at the door until the agents drove away. When she finally turned, all the fire had gone out of her.
Jax tried to be patient as she slunk into her overstuffed chair, but his emotions were still frayed. Not twenty minutes ago the girl of his dreams had shot him down because he didn’t believe in her God. And now this. He couldn’t wait. “Mom?”
She looked up at him and wiped tears from her eyes. “I’m sorry I missed the science fair, but those men showed up right when I was preparing to leave.”
“What did they want?”
She shook her head. “Oh honey, I don’t know how to tell you this.” She looked at the ceiling and took a deep breath. “They said that the investigation is being re-opened and they have reason to think the explosion wasn’t an accident, but was an inside job.”
“An inside job?”
“Your dad’s security code was the only one activated at the time. They … they suggested that he was involved in some sort of break-in attempt to steal his technology.”
Jax shot to his feet. “What? That’s impossible. Dad would never have done that.”
She sniffled as she stood and hugged him. “I know, Jax. I know.”

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