Finding Benjamin: Sacred Trust Series
By Carrie Daws
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He's skirting the edge of trouble, but apparently steering clear of it.
Fifteen-year-old Benjamin Torres is known around town thanks to his dog, which everyone gives a wide berth. Still, witnesses spotted him at the scene of an accidental fire, so questions about his involvement circle the case file.
God presses Detective Samuel Campos to get involved.
He's arrested too many teens in the last six months to sit idly by, but he's uncertain that his plan is viable or his superiors will allow it. As he works to know Benjamin and his family, more questions about the fire come to light. Maybe it wasn't accidental after all.
Carrie Daws
Over the years, God rewrote Carrie’s dreams from being a corporate accountant to being a writer. With a background writing online weekly devotions, a mentor at the Christian Writer’s Guild encouraged her to try fiction. The writing monster she now barely keeps contained was born. Since then, she’s completed several inspirational fiction books and encouraging nonfiction for military spouses and new believers. After almost ten years in the US Air Force, Carrie’s husband medically retired, and they settled in North Carolina. With their three children all figuring out what they want to do in life after school, Carrie stays busy keeping up with her family and friends, loving on women, and entering story worlds via books and movies as much as she can.
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Finding Benjamin - Carrie Daws
Chapter 1
Monday, March 14
You will find her, Samu.
Detective Samuel Campos jerked up, grabbing the 9mm handgun from his bedside table and aiming it blindly at the door to the bedroom.
Sam?
Blinking, he willed his eyes to clear and his mind to work in the pre-dawn light. Never shifting his aim, he turned his head to the left, then the right to look at the corners of the room. The shadows were lessening with the rising sun, but nothing moved. Well, nothing except for his wife sitting up in their bed.
Samu?
His wife’s voice penetrated his mind. Her use of the familiar nickname from his childhood battled with the state of alertness coursing through his body. She wouldn’t use the moniker if she was afraid.
He lowered his weapon and rubbed his face with his free hand. It’s okay, Jules. I just—
He paused, not having the words to finish his sentence. What exactly had just happened? The voice had been so clear, so close.
He looked at his wife, who was watching him closely, waiting for an answer.
I thought I heard something.
Heard something? Like someone in the house? Or God?
As his wife, Julie, heard from God occasionally in dreams, the Almighty speaking to her didn’t sound particularly strange. But the Creator of heaven and earth wasn’t usually so open with him. He usually got the more subtle indications that people in his career field regarded as gut instincts.
I’m not sure.
He shook his head. I’m going to check the house, just to be safe. You go back to sleep.
Not much point.
She sighed, got out of bed, and headed toward their bathroom door, located directly behind where Sam stood. Alarm’s going off in about twenty minutes anyway. You check the house over and let me know. When you’re sure it’s safe, I’ll get the coffee started.
As his wife closed the door, Sam thought back to the voice. Had it been real? His body had certainly thought so. But if it had been God, who exactly was he supposed to find?
Stewart! Campos!
Sam heard Captain Lawson bellowing down the hallway. A boisterous man who was so tall that he had to duck through doorways, he never did anything quietly. Sam poked his head out of his office doorway.
Yes, sir?
Sam saw Detective Dominic Stewart take a step out of his office two doors down, closer to the captain.
Both of you. My office now.
The captain turned on his heel, retreating back into his office at the end of the hallway. Uncertain what he wanted, Sam didn’t know whether to grab any of his files or not. He snatched his small notebook off his desk just to be on the safe side.
Sit down, both of you.
Captain Lawson believed in law and order, on the street and in the office. His furniture lined up neatly with the walls, and two empty chairs sat perfectly spaced in front of the desk that showed only the files he was working on at the moment. Dominic took the chair to the right.
Sam, you heard about the missing teen?
The one all over the news, from Silver High School? Isabel, right?
That’s the one, and she’s disappeared without a trace. Stewart here is lead, the FBI is incoming, and a task force is forming from first responders here and in surrounding counties. I want you to join it.
Sam shifted in his seat. His assigned cases were typically homicide, which included unaccompanied deaths, and arson. Missing kids, rare in their county, could include a call out for everyone to jump on board, but this request felt more specific. Sir, do you mind if I ask why me?
I don’t want this to come across wrong, to either one of you, but I don’t know a better way to say it. This is an Hispanic teen missing from a tightly-knit Hispanic community.
Sam glanced at Stewart, trying to gauge how his Irish Catholic co-worker was accepting this.
Campos, coming from an Hispanic family yourself, you understand what they’re thinking. You’ll be accepted and trusted on a deeper level than the rest of us.
Captain Lawson stood, his dark skinned arms crossed over his barrel chest. "Look, you both have been here long enough to know I shut down racism when I see it. But I also try to work within the cultures around us when appropriate. We need to find this girl. It’s already been thirty-four hours, and the community is nervous. Stewart, get Campos up to speed, and both of you be ready to update the rest of the team. First meeting