Bone Deep by Bonnie Dee

Author:Bonnie Dee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781456450557
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-12-12T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Sarah’s legs felt heavy and numb as she trudged the long path back to the road, but Tom’s bowed head and slight stagger signaled his exhaustion was much worse. She couldn’t imagine the effort of mind and will it had taken for him to tap into his psychic power and force it to work for him.

When they reached the road, the ambulance had gone. Mike leaned against his car waiting for them. “Phil’s gone to tell the searchers Aileen’s been found and her parents rode to the hospital in the ambulance. I figured you all could use a ride back.”

Ziegler hefted his bulk into the passenger seat next to Mike, forcing the other three to share the back. Sitting between Tom and Andrew was extremely awkward. Sarah folded her hands in her lap and stared at them, acutely aware of the men on either side of her.

“So, are you going to introduce us to your friend, Sarah?” Mike asked.

“This is Tom. Tom, these are my friends, Mike Cunningham and Andrew Harper.” Observing the social niceties in such a strange situation felt bizarre.

After a moment’s silence, nosy Mike started in again. “You want to tell us a little more, Sarah?”

She sighed. Now that the crisis of the missing child was over, everyone’s attention would turn toward Tom. People were going to want an explanation. She would have to tell his story over and over again.

“The morning after the carnival left I found Tom in my loft. Arthur Reed had kept him a prisoner most of his life. I’ve let him stay at the farm while he figures out what he wants to do next. That’s really all there is to it.” She was pleased. It was brief, to the point and explained all people needed to know.

Mike looked at her in the rearview mirror. “What about all this mind stuff? How does that work?”

Even though the proof of Tom’s power had been exhibited to everybody, Sarah felt ridiculous explaining the phenomenon. “He sees flashes, sometimes impressions of what people are feeling and sometimes images from their lives. When he told me today he’d seen Aileen trapped someplace. I took him to the sheriff, and you know the rest.”

She glanced at Andrew sitting ramrod straight and listening intently to her story, and at Tom, scrunched down in his seat, staring out the window, his mind seemingly a million miles away.

“Can I ask why you didn’t tell Grace and me about this?” Mike asked.

Sarah wanted to snap Because it was none of your business. “I don’t know.”

Sheriff Ziegler, who had been unusually quiet, suddenly spoke up. “Well, this is an unusual situation, but it seems your friend here is in his right mind and no crimes have been committed, except maybe by that carnival fellow. If you want to press charges against Reed, I can call over to Hooperstown and have him taken in for questioning.”

“No.” Tom turned from the window, clearly more aware of the conversation than he’d let on. “No. Let it go.

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