My fingers went completely cold against the glass of the phone.

Paige read the text over my shoulder and gasped.

“Ask him what was altered in the report!”

My trembling thumb quickly typed the question: “What was changed?”

Austin’s answer came almost instantly.

“The mechanical inspection log.

My original report noted severe pre-existing damage to the steering linkage that occurred BEFORE the vehicle ever went off the road.

The final official report claimed the steering linkage snapped AS A RESULT of the crash impact.”