#DailyLines #MOBY #WRITTENInMYOwnHEARTSBlood #Book8 #OutJUNE10th #yesBreeandRogerareinthistoo “Come with me, sweetheart,” she said, hastily undoing the seat-belt. “That’s right, here, let me carry you…” Even as she spoke, she was looking here, there, from the lights into the darkness, every nerve she had screaming that her son was here, he was _here_, he had to be…rushing water…her mind filled with horror, thinking of Jem falling into the spillway, or Jem in the service tunnel—God, why hadn’t she gone there first? Of course Rob Cameron would have put him there, he had the keys, he…but the lights, the sirens… She’d almost made it—at a dead run, impeded only slightly by thirty pounds of toddler—when she saw a big man at the edge of the drive, thrashing through the bushes with a stick or something, cursing a blue streak. “What do you think you’re _doing_?” she bellowed. Mandy, alarmed anew, let out a screech like a scalded baboon, and the man jumped, whirling to face them, stick raised. “What the bleedin’ hell are you doing here?” he said, so taken aback that he spoke almost normally. “You’re supposed to be—“ Bree had peeled Mandy off. Setting her daughter down behind her, she prepared to take the man apart with her bare hands, if necessary. Evidently this intent showed, because the man dropped the stick and abruptly vanished into the darkness. Then red and blue lights washed over the drive and she realized that it wasn’t her own aspect that had frightened him. Mandy was clinging to her leg, too frightened even to wail anymore. Bree picked her up, patting her gently, and turned to face the two police officers who were advancing cautiously toward her, hands on their batons. She felt wobbly-legged and dream-like, things fading in and out of focus with the strobing lights. The rush of tons of falling water filled her ears. “Mandy,” she said into her daughter’s warm, curly hair, her own voice almost drowned out by the sirens. “Can you feel Jem? Please tell me you can feel him.”
Posted on: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 11:31:31 +0000
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