Angel Fire by Shelley Russell Nolan

Author:Shelley Russell Nolan [Russell Nolan, Shelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

6

I tapped my fingers on the dash as I waited in the car for Nick and Daniel to return. They’d been gone for quarter of an hour and with every passing minute my stomach knotted even more.

As soon as I’d seen the front gate for The Wood’s Estate I’d known we were in the right place. A shiver had swept over my body and I’d felt Angel’s presence so strongly I’d expected her to appear in the car beside me. I’d even tried reaching out to her, but it was like an impenetrable wall stood between us.

A loud tap on my window made me jump and I snapped my eyes open. A man dressed in a light blue orderly’s uniform peered in the window. He was huge, his wide shoulders blocking out the entire window. He sneered at me, blue eyes filled with malice as he tugged on the door handle.

I tensed, ready to kick, punch and bite my way to freedom. But the door didn’t open and I sagged back in relief, remembering that Nick had used his key remote to lock the doors after he and Daniel had gotten out of the car.

The orderly’s expression darkened and he wrenched on the handle again and again. Then he took a step back, swinging his body around with his elbow raised and I gasped. He was going to try to break the window. I scanned the interior of the car, looking for something, anything, to fight him off with. But there was nothing.

‘Hey, you, get away from her.’ Nick appeared beside the orderly and pushed him back.

The orderly snarled, fists raised and threw a punch at Nick’s head. Nick dodged and the orderly’s fist connected with the roof of the car. The orderly howled, clutching his hand, as Daniel shot into view. He shoved the orderly to the ground and then launched himself at the back passenger door as Nick pressed the button on his key remote to unlock the car.

Daniel dived into the backseat as Nick sprinted around the front of the car. I leaned over and opened the driver’s side door for him and he jumped into the seat. The orderly scrambled to his feet. Nick inserted the key in the ignition and hit the accelerator as the orderly slammed his elbow into my window.

The window held and Nick took off, fishtailing in the dirt as he spun the wheel and got the car onto the road leading back to town, leaving the orderly cursing as he ran after us. I twisted in my seat so I could see both Nick and Daniel.

‘Did you see Angel?’

‘No, we only got to see her doctor, Joanna Wood. She said it would set back Angel’s treatment if she had visitors,’ said Daniel.

‘Wood, as in The Wood’s Estate? She’s the one in charge of that place?’

‘And pretty pleased with herself, too,’ said Nick. ‘There were at least a dozen photos of her on the walls in the reception area, and in one of them she’s standing beside your scary aunt and uncle.

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